01-16-2008, 01:27 PM
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For people who want to manually replace their battery, this Bud's not for you.
(90 % of laptop owners never even THINK about changing a battery in their laptop, and 90% is a pretty good-sized "niche")
Yes, but the 90% that don't change their battery use their laptop like a desktop replacement and don't use their machine "in the field" on battery power much. They are not the Road Warriors, and THAT is who this machine is targeted to. The lack of being able to swap batteries is going to be a huge consideration. Like I said, I wanted to buy this machine, but the battery issue is a deal killer. I could live with the other specs.
In my usual AM surfing I came across a blog entry by Jason O'Grady (the original Powerbook Guru). He basically has the same apprehensions. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1192
For people who want to manually replace their battery, this Bud's not for you.
(90 % of laptop owners never even THINK about changing a battery in their laptop, and 90% is a pretty good-sized "niche")
Yes, but the 90% that don't change their battery use their laptop like a desktop replacement and don't use their machine "in the field" on battery power much. They are not the Road Warriors, and THAT is who this machine is targeted to. The lack of being able to swap batteries is going to be a huge consideration. Like I said, I wanted to buy this machine, but the battery issue is a deal killer. I could live with the other specs.
In my usual AM surfing I came across a blog entry by Jason O'Grady (the original Powerbook Guru). He basically has the same apprehensions. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1192