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The real dream is a user-serviceable MacBook, positioned towards power users - a "PowerBook", if you will. If Apple doesn't want battery life sacrificed, they
by Ezhik 10y ago
The real dream is a user-serviceable MacBook, positioned towards power users - a "PowerBook", if you will.
If Apple doesn't want battery life sacrificed, they don't offer the option to put 32GB of RAM in. Then if the user makes the choice to put in more RAM (because the PowerBook lets you put in more RAM as it does not have it soldered), it's their responsibility that battery life suffered.
- smallnamespace 10y agoThe sad fact is that user-serviceability has a large engineering and design cost. More or less every Apple hardware component has a weird non-standard shape to squeeze as much hardware into the smallest form factor possible. A user-serviceable MacBook would be larger, heavier, and have less battery life.
- Ezhik 10y ago>larger, heavier, and have less battery life All things I'd be willing to deal with to have a powerful workstation - I'm not saying the current thing and light devices would have to go, after all. Obviously Apple wouldn't just drop everything to go and make me a Big Fat Laptop, but it doesn't mean I can't be unhappy about Apple's 2016 computers grid looking like [this](https://twitter.com/SilverEzhik/status/800191799566299136/photo/1 https://twitter.com/SilverEzhik/status/800191799566299136/ph...).
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- scholia 10y agoI used to get about 10 hours of battery life from my IBM ThinkPad 240X [1] running Windows 2000 way back in 1999. I did this by using the extended battery (which stuck out from the back), and by buying two of them. On long trips, I just swapped the batteries. [1} Ultra-portable model with no floppy drive and no CD-ROM, but a wonderful IBM keyboard.