10-hour MacBook delicately disassembled, battery transplanted into earlier model
By Sean Hollister 
posted May 19th 2010 11:57PM
posted May 19th 2010 11:57PM
posted May 19th 2010 11:57PM
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@knAuz
just plain resourceful that is.
10 hrs? test it plz
@mianmian It wont always be 10 hrs. it depends what you are doing surfing the web, watching movies, playing games it will always add up and decrease the length. my mbp has a 7hr battery and i get 4 hrs out of it.
@mianmian I'm on the latest Macbook Pro right now. I run it at max brightness with a *lot* of stuff going on (iTunes, Hulu, Youtube, etc.) and manage to squeeze out 5 hours. I'm sure that if I were to use it with a much less demanding load, I could get at least 9 hours.
@Sil
My MBP of quoted 7 hours of battery actually lasts about 5:30 at least with 50% brightness, iTunes, Safari (YouTube included) and watching videos through Movist... Might wanna get your battery checked out...
@knAuz
I gotta say- the insides do look pretty.
This almost sounds as good as the HTC EVO 4G.
But, most things pale in comparison to it.
@Wiizer
... What's that, you say? Revenge for all those articles where Apple fanboys come in and mention something about i-this or i-that without being warranted?
I would never...
@Wiizer
You dare to disgrace a battery? You're pure eeeeeevil.
@Wiizer
i wanna see how long the EVO would last with this battery! hehe
@Wiizer
Um, maybe you're new here but it's ALWAYS the Apple haters that come into every Apple related thread and post verbal diarrhea. Always, every time. Sort of like what you just did.
@Jack
Er dickhead have you already forgotten what you were doing on the Evo 4G thread?
@knAuz
How would you classify performance in a laptop if battery life isn't one of the things you judge it by? If you're just going to keep it plugged in, get a desktop.
@Jack Sure it is one of the criteria that you would judge a laptop on but lets be realistic here, who the fuck needs a laptop that has a 10h battery life. When was the last time you spent 10hours on a laptop with out having the chance to plug the damn thing in the wall. Hell you cant find a flight that last longer than 6 hours these days that the plane does not have power plug at every seat. This obsession with battery life and laptops is getting a bit much. Phones need a great battery laptops need good battery. When judging a laptop battery life has never been the top of the list. If i need more battery that 6 hours I bring a spare along with me. when do i do that? Never!! Idiots.
Steve: What do you hate about your old laptop.
Fan boy: When my mom forgets to pack the power adapter in my backpack for me and the battery runs out during the AV club meeting after school.
Steve: Have you mom buy you the new MBP for you, the battery last for 10 hours.
Fan boy: Cool, I hear it plays games not too?
Steve: Yea it does, but it sucks at that.
Fan boy: That's ok so do I.
Idiots.
@Jack That is a very extreme point of view, where would you draw the line? I use a laptop daily for work, but while I'm at the office I keep it plugged in. It is rare that I need more than 3 hours of battery time before I have my laptop plugged in again, the average is probably 30 minutes of battery time, and even then half of the times I am on battery I could just as easily plug it in somewhere. Some days my laptop never gets unplugged.
The portability of the laptop is the #1 reason I have and use one. If my laptop battery were to fall out today I would be ok not replacing it for weeks, but I would not be able to do my job if I had to carry a desktop around everywhere.
Apple, please, take the &%^$ DVD driver off!
@knAuz They didn't skimp with having audio over the minidisplay port for HDMI. I wish my MBP had that.
@TXToast Your post is moronic on so many levels... I don't even know where to begin.
@knAuz Apple has always been cheap on the inside. They always make their outward facing image to the customer look polished, and refined though. Its always been an act to make their crap smell better then everyone else's when in reality once the smoke screen clears.....it isn't.
How many workers died to make this unit i wonder?
@Amusednow Probably the same number as of those who made the device you're writing your comment on.
The insides sure look really nice...
@TXToast
Interesting roleplay :)
Ps evo4g!
I feel sorry for OSX fans. Its bad enough that the last update amounted to no more than a service pack (which they had the balls to charge for), but hardware is not only limited in selection and overpriced as usual, but severely lagging behind competition.
=(
Hopefully Steve will reconsider the option of licensing out OSX to third parties.
No reason OSX wouldn't run just as well on a Asus clone w/ a i7.
@Ducman69 Well, if I had Windows Vista it would be worse - I would be paying much more than the 30$ for the SL upgrade.
@HighestRanked2 ..but on top of that it's also "magical".
@HighestRanked2
-Facepalm- This guy still comments?
@knAuz An engineering break through will be seen every 5 years or so. That means from G3 PB to Ti-Book to Powerbook(macbook Pro) to Unibody, and from iBook G3 to macbook to Unibody.
@HighestRanked2
You say MiniDisplay Port is orders of magnitude better than HDMI in every way. How about in terms of usability and actual ubiquity? If those two aren't important to you, I've got a "super duper USB 8.0" port to sell you! It can transfer data super duper fast! It doesn't actually plug into any consumer item you may actually want to buy, but hey neither does MiniDisplay Port.
To everyone complaining about the lack of the i5, please read http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/why-the-13-macbook-pro-didnt-get-a-core-i5-upgrade.ars
The fact is that the i5 is just not a very compelling chip to put in a notebook that needs to be small as well as perform.
magisch, revolutionär
@Luxury Guy
Despite that its not alway 100% convenient, Someone needs to drive technology. Its usually Apple.
May I remind you that Apple pushed the first standard use of USB, you know that weird unusual standard that no one used 15 years ago but Apple supplied as standard on their computers of the mid 90s?
Forward thinking!
Still an overpriced piece of shit, but at least you can enjoy your overpriced piece of shit for longer right?
I'll say it again: Give the Macbook Air some real ports and make that the MacBook at $999. Dish the white and have the MacBook Pro 13 the available upgrade.
I can verify that Apple will be using the updated battery assuming that the repair technician chooses to use it. Both batteries are listed when ordering parts for the Late 2009 MacBook, so if you are lucky the technician will use the newer battery.