It has been announced that the battery can be replaced... same $129 as a MacBook Pro, you just have to let them do it for you. (Installation is free.)
And it's a 5 hour battery! I replaced my current battery after 3 years, after I only got 45 minutes of usable time out of it... but have not touched it before or since, so it may have well been soldered in. And on a similar subject I almost never use the ethernet, I've used the PCI once, and the optical drive only for installation and the occaisonal CD burn. I REALLY like the idea of a simple sealed case that is not going to have it's ports fill with lint, the fewer clips, ports, and moving parts the better. (Something I like about the iPhone as well.) With all the crap we have to stuff in our heads on a daily basis, simplicity has become a luxury. -Andrew ---------------------------------------- From: Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:32 PM To: IXDA list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] MacBook Air On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Nasir Barday wrote: > I should also add that I'm a Windows user in the process of adding OS > X to my toolkit, but haven't found the right machine(s) yet. Phones > and laptops burn through batteries in a year. I don't get what having > sealed, non-user replaceable batteries caters to other than > prematurely planned obsolescence. Strikes me as arrogant. I have to believe it's a technical limitation in the hardware design. To get the thin footprint that is. If they could have gotten a detachable battery with the same footprint, they would have. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
