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MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove

Posted by timothy on from the just-unscrew-16-handy-screws dept.

Slatterz writes "Going just a bit further than your average unboxing, someone has stripped a new 17-inch Apple Macbook Pro to its component parts revealing one or two little surprises. The biggest of which is that the built-in battery is easily accessible, requiring the tinkerer to remove just the 13 Philips screws which hold the bottom cover in place, and the three tri-wing security screws which hold the battery in place."

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  1. Underestimation. by detox.method() · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple thought the combined ignorance and laziness of its customers would have rendered the battery inaccessible. This just shows that there might be someone with intelligence and motivation that uses one of their computers. Who woulda thought it?

  2. Re:WOW by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well when i fly to Asia i have a 110 power plug that takes the standard charger that came with my MBP. I go 6 to 8 times a year and have been going since 1987....funny thing is they have always worked. /oh wait you mean your flying coach....wtf its a 14 hour flight are you crazy

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    . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
  3. Re:How do you power down? by bytta · · Score: 0, Troll

    Clearly your mom's Thinkpad wasn't running OSX.
    Suggesting that OSX might freeze up is just ludicrous.

  4. Re:WOW by DrXym · · Score: 0, Troll
    Exactly. Apple devices are supposedly easy to use, but this absolutely is not the case with batteries. One would expect them to come up with some elegant invisible clip that comes loose with an intuitive movement, or perhaps some thumb size screws that reveal a hidden compartment. Something that hides the battery yet makes it accessible. After all, lots of small devices have replaceable batteries.

    Instead Apple seal their units shut, or make it ridiculously difficult to remove batteries without special tools. On top of that they launch a battery replacement program which is expensive and couched in scary clauses about possibly not getting your original device back.

    It's quite obvious they seal batteries in to encourage people to dump their otherwise functioning devices for a new model.