http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/ Engadget Comments for Zune 8 goes under the knife, bares all http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/How about a laptop?
Maybe a flashlight...?
for all of yea Apple lovers this is the direct result of iPod which propagated this with the hidden battery money grab.
Now, it would be nice to accuse MSFT with another bad thing except Apple was the one that started this freaging trend.]]>Nov 17th 2007 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
Oh, and I do have a credit card sized flashlight with a fixed battery. :D]]>Nov 17th 2007 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Yes.
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Maybe stops your gadget addiction long enough to REFUSE to buy one? In front of other customers, TELL the store clerk these are garbage? Tell your friends that the Apple-ism is unwanted?

The only OTHER way to make your desires known is to hammer the customer satisfaction survey comment boxes (but M$ doesn't usually allow comments - they invented the 'Microsoftian' survey)]]>Nov 17th 2007 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 18th 2007 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
I hope you give Microsoft as much flack for this as you did to Apple for doing virtually the same thing. Once again, Apple does it better, at least with an iPod you just unplug the old battery instead of having to break out a soldering iron and risk ruining the whole thing during a battery change]]>Nov 17th 2007 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
So, do I wish it had a user replaceable battery? A little. But then again, zune engravings would look pretty lousy with a hatch to pull the battery out of.]]>Nov 17th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
What's the importance of a user-replaceable battery? I never got what some people may want that for.

Is that like batteries in a remote control? Where you switch them out every time they die? Why would you want that? Isn't it easier to recharge it, instead of buying and wasting batteries?

I seriously don't get. What's the benefit from a user-replaceable battery?]]>Nov 17th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
User replacable batteries can also be replaced when the battery dies. Most useful in situations such as long plane rides where you may not be able to recharge your battery. I'd gladly pay $50 for an extra battery than sit through 6 more hours of nothing to do.]]>Nov 17th 2007 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 17th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
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Give them to charity or something.]]>Nov 17th 2007 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Omg! It's made in China, that's so non-Apple and soo M$.]]>Nov 17th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/You seriously couldn't figure this one out? You didn't know standard (aka lithium-ion) batteries can only recharge x amount of times before they are dead??? Yes, you ARE stupid. Or 12. Or Both.
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I hope Microsoft do the sane thing and make them standard for their players up there in the 3-plays-before-expiring digital restrictions social.

Then, and only then, we might get Apple and Sony and virtually the rest of the industry copy-catting them with what was common sense, which has become uncommon sense in audio land.]]>Nov 17th 2007 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/Nov 18th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/zune-8-goes-under-the-knife-bares-all/
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