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Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes
Phil Schiller delivered the keynote at MacWorld, the first after the Steve Jobs era of keynotes. Here is Engadget's live blog. The big news, predicted by many rumor sites, was the introduction of the unibody 17" MacBook Pro. As rumored, the battery is not removable, but it's claimed to provide 8 hours of battery life (7 hours with the discrete graphics): "3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard." $2,799, 2.66 GHz and 4 GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, shipping at the end of January. There is a battery exchange program, and there is an option for a matte display. The other big news is that iTunes is going DRM-free: 8M songs today, all 10+M by the end of March. Song pricing will be flexible, as the studios have been demanding; the lowest song price is $0.69. Apple also introduced the beta of a Google Docs-like service, iWork.com.
You're a tool and a moron if you believe any of that.
You have to "package" the battery just the same.
The connectors on the battery still have to be there.
There is no empty space necessary for a removable battery that isn't necessary for a non-removable battery.
The batteries being thinner won't get you additional charge per volume (you get less!).
It's a battery claim - they're always bullshit.
It's a claim based on Apple's internal testing - proven to be always bullshit.
Do you have anything in the way of facts to back up your statement, or are you just spouting an uninformed opinion about a technical matter?
I wonder how long you'll be without your notebook while the battery is replaced. And how long they'll support these notebooks. And how much it will cost.
Batteries already cost quite a bit, and they're claiming that these batteries will last for 5 years. Will they even still be replacing batteries in these ancient computers that far into the future?
I simply cannot fathom why Apple keeps making these things without a number pad.
Dude, it's a Mac. Mac users can barely type -- they sure as hell don't need a number pad!
Seriously? Here are a few:
Yeah, seriously.
1) Buy a new battery. Even their claimed 2-3x industry standard isn't more than a year or two if you use your laptop every day. I'm still using a three year old laptop which is perfectly fine even for software development.
You are basing this on what? Idle speculation?
2) Not having to send your laptop to Apple when they inevitably recall the battery
Speculation?
3) A long flight is much more than 8 hours. Try going to Australia or Hong Kong.
Dude, seriously, if you are on that long of a flight, you should take some time to relax, have a few drinks and take a nap. Nobody should be expected to "work" on a plane the whole time. Unless if you are a chronic workaholic with no life, you should not be working through the flight and your employer should understand that.
In the end, it's fairly irrelevant, because any serious business user won't be considering Apple products.
Serious business users should not allow themselves to be at the beckoned call of their employers 24-7. Turn off your blackberries and close your notebooks for a while. Life is too short and your employer is not paying you extra to cut into your personal time anyway.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
There is no trade off. You make the battery removable. You might get a seam on your casing. Oh no. But you most certainly do not lose 28.5% of your space!
Please tell me you're not an engineer.
Its not just a seam: if the battery can be removed, people will remove it, so you have to ensure not only that the battery is robust (can't be crushed, the terminals can't be shorted) but that the computer with the battery removed is also robust (both mechanically, and proof against foreign objects getting in).
Lets say the space available for the battery is 20cm x 10cm x 1.5cm giving a volume of 300 cm sq,
Now make it removable. You have to put a rigid case around the battery and a wall around the battery compartment. Lets say that, together, they are 1mm thick - that loses you 2mm in every dimension.
The volume available for the new battery is 18cm x 8 cm x 1.3 cm = 187.2 sq cm.
Whups, there goes 40% of your battery volume!
Plus, the bigger you make the battery, the thicker you have to make the case and the more removing it weakens the laptop.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
"Apple" "has" "more"
So, you're a fanboy, eh? Blind zealot, go back to your Mac.
Yes, intentionally quoting out of context is fun!