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Sidenote, detachable batteries are also useful in that the overall service lifetime of a battery can easily be shorter than that of the rest of the laptop.

• Raphmedia 10y ago
  It also keeps battery swelling from wrecking your motherboard.
  • eridius 10y ago
    It also means the battery can't have a funky custom-designed shape that devices with integrated batteries can, meaning the battery has a lower capacity. That's a really big reason not to use detachable batteries.
    • mmirate 10y ago
      > It also means the battery can't have a funky custom-designed shape that devices with integrated batteries can ... so you're saying that designing for a detachable battery forces a certain finesse when designing the rest of the internals, so that there is not any funky-shaped gap big enough to put an entire LiPo cell. Also, one can easily make an "extended" model of replacement battery, which protrudes rearward (or downward[1]) of the rest of the case. [1]: http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/396005-lenovo-thinkpad-x250-right-side-with-extended-battery.jpg?width=630 http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/396005-lenovo-thinkpad-x2...
      • Raphmedia 10y ago
        Batteries protruding downward is genius! Every laptop should have them!