Apple Attempts to Justify Non-removable Batteries

[jewishmafia]

It looks like Apple grew tired of going through reviews of their products, with each and every one criticizing their decision to go with non-removable battery. Regardless of that product being an iPod, iPhone or a MacBook Pro “Unibody”, media criticized that bit.
But it is not just media, it is just the law of physics. Our web designer has two-year old $4200-paid MacBook Pro (1st Gen Intel) and the battery went “kapput”, as Germans would say. New battery exceeds $400 in Croatia, and for that price, he refuses to buy a new one. He also refuses to purchase a new unibody Mac, opting to build Intel Skulltrail platform instead, and turned that 8-core in Hackintosh faster than our original 45nm 8-Core 3GHz system with 16GB of veeeery expensive memory. For a fraction of Mac Pro’s retail price.
If you go to Apple Store, even biggest Apple zealot will take a look at non-removable battery feature and lower his/her shoulders. So, what do you do if people criticize your design decision, placed to force you to buy a new system after battery cycles out its natural life span (couple of thousand recharges, sometimes even as low as 500 recharges)?
Go and advertise that non-removable battery is green, that’s what you do. Apple’s marketing wizards decided to put a nice green spin on the feature, and claim that new Mac comes with five years of battery life is quite brave, given that Apple has no control over the quality of the battery. Even the best battery in the world will cycle out, and there is nothing Apple (or anybody else, unfortunately) can do.
http://theovalich.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/apple_campaign.jpg?w=500&h=678

Look at how green we are... anyone want to place a bet will the battery still work in 2013? Of course not, you're expected to replace your Mac next year...

Apple claims their proprietary electronics will keep the battery in check (let’s hope their marketing is right) and that the more people have non-removable batteries, less land will be filled with electronic waste. Thus, we can conclude that non-removable battery can actually save the world. And fill Apple’s coffers with those pesky charges that users have to pay the moment their device exits warranty period.


Thanks to my buddy Theo for the article.
http://theovalich.wordpress.com/

[Spart]

Ranks right up there with their BS recycling scheme.

http://www.villaintech.com/2009/01/20/apple-smashing-macs-to-pieces-not-hip-to-recycling/

[thepreacha619]

they say that battery isn't actually all that hard to remove, just a few screws. (or so ive heard.) and there's already a company getting ready to sell batteries for these "non user replaceable" batteries.
and five years is a very long time for a notebook, that's more or less impressive than something to be criticizing.

[jewishmafia]

they say that battery isn't actually all that hard to remove, just a few screws. (or so ive heard.) and there's already a company getting ready to sell batteries for these "non user replaceable" batteries.
and five years is a very long time for a notebook, that's more or less impressive than something to be criticizing.

Have you EVER heard of ANY battery lasting 5 years? Let alone a laptop battery under normal usage?
Edit:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3774/yodawgiherdyoulikemacs2.jpg

[s_8ball]

they say that battery isn't actually all that hard to remove, just a few screws. (or so ive heard.) and there's already a company getting ready to sell batteries for these "non user replaceable" batteries.
and five years is a very long time for a notebook, that's more or less impressive than something to be criticizing.

Have you EVER heard of ANY battery lasting 5 years? Let alone a laptop battery under normal usage?
Edit:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3774/yodawgiherdyoulikemacs2.jpgHAHA

[squeak]

lol 2013 another sign of the end of the world, all computers are gonna die at the same time or blow up

[O2zi3]

OM fucking G. I can't believe i only just saw this thread. Fucking Apple cunts as always, there may be fewer batteries in landfills but there'll be be more macs there instead. I'd rather cut my balls off with toothbrush than buy into this shit.

[s_8ball]

OM fucking G. I can't believe i only just saw this thread. Fucking Apple cunts as always, there may be fewer batteries in landfills but there'll be be more macs there instead. I'd rather cut my balls off with toothbrush than buy into this shit.Good, that's just where macs belong. In a fucking landfill.

[zomgrocks]

Howcome everyone thinks those pictures are funny with him they are not funny dumb and people use them way to much

[DaDominator]

You have to watch Pimp My Ride a couple times to really think they are funny.

[jewishmafia]

Howcome everyone thinks those pictures are funny with him they are not funny dumb and people use them way to much

Your lack of a sense of humor is saddening...

Explanation.

During the show pimp my ride... they Host (w/e his name is) takes a dilapidated car and "pimps" it. Then during the pimp process, he usually is heard saying "yo, i heard you like ______ so we put _____ in your car" Basically saying things like, yo i heard you like football so we put a minifootball stadium in your car.