The non removable batteries are necessary to include a bigger and longer lasting battery. With macbooks only being .95" thick, space is VERY limiting.
.95", yet still has longer battery than laptops that are 1.5" to 2" thick.
Sometimes everyone wants to have one's cake and eat it too. You have to draw the line somewhere, heck why doesn't it make me eggs and toast? What a POS.
"I'm a college student looking for a new laptop, but almost all of my media I receive digitally. I'm looking for a laptop, not a netbook, without an optical drive, and budget sensitive. The optical drive will just be a waste of space, when I can have thinner laptop. What's out there?"
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To be fair...
The non removable batteries are necessary to include a bigger and longer lasting battery. With macbooks only being .95" thick, space is VERY limiting.
.95", yet still has longer battery than laptops that are 1.5" to 2" thick.
Sometimes everyone wants to have one's cake and eat it too. You have to draw the line somewhere, heck why doesn't it make me eggs and toast? What a POS.
So they had to put a screw under a warranty voiding sticker in order to make it thinner? Makes sense.
Then perhaps you'd like to tell me why my new laptop lasts for 3 hours off it's (large) battery, and this macbook lasts 7 hours?
Oops misread, my apologies.
The new Macbooks are a cock hair under 1.10 inches thick.
It's 1.08".
and yet... if I rather want a slightly thicker laptop for Apple with removable battery can I have it?
it's more like "have your cake SHOVE down your throat"
No, but you can always get an external battery pack, as linked under the first set of replies.