MacBook Pro 17 inch Battery Integrated
I find it interesting that apple who as of late has had a terrible reputation with it’s batteries has opted to create a notebook with a non-removable battery. During MacWorld today it was touted that the new battery is able to run up to eight hours on a single charge and has the ability recharge up to 1000 times before degrading. What is ironic to me is that I am creating this post with my current 17″ MacBook Pro laptop which I have had to replace the battery on due to the battery growing in size. It wouldn’t have surprised me if the battery would have spilled it’s guts had I not detected the problem early on and removed the battery so as not to cause additional damage to my machine. At least I was able to remove the battery and keep working while I waited to get it replaced after the hassle of dealing with apple care because my warranty was expired and had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a replacement. It may have been easier if I lived closer to the coveted Apple Stores but the closet store is in Las Vegas, 3 hours away. I hope that they’ve resolved the expanding battery issue as it’d be a real pain to have to ship your entire laptop to Apple for repair. I could at least keep working.
One thing that I will give to Mac, they know how to make a pretty machine. Here’s a few pictures of the latest.
And here’s the link: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/