The New MacBook Pro looks amazing. It’s smaller, faster, better, and cheaper. I practically had my mind made up to buy one, although I was dogged by an awful lot of hesitation.<\/p>\n
But one thing irks me. Apple’s been criticized for a long time about built-in batteries. Batteries fail on the iPod and you have to send the whole thing in for service, at which point you might as well buy a new one. The battery on my work MacBook Pro failed (it held 400 mAh), but it was no big deal because we had a new spare so I just swapped them out. It’s right on the bottom: just slide a latch and it pops out.<\/p>\n
But the new ones? In the interest of being sleek, they built the batteries inside the laptop. I think I’m going to use this as my excuse to not drop $1800 on a laptop: I’m not going to spend money on a machine that needs to be shipped to a depot if the battery fails. Maybe I’ll scoop up a used MacBook Pro on eBay as prices drop, and just be careful to get one that will take 4GB RAM as opposed to the 2GB on mine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New MacBook Pro looks amazing. It’s smaller, faster, better, and cheaper. I practically had my mind made up to buy one, although I was dogged by an awful lot of hesitation. But one thing irks me. Apple’s been criticized … Continue reading