[cocoggu]

I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.

[macintux]

Given the power efficiency of the M1, I’m not sure it matters all that much.

[asdff]

The 16" is already built to maximum battery capacity by law

[gimmeThaBeet]

Interesting, honestly didn't know that was a thing.

Is this the first macbook that's hit the 100WHr limit, or has this been a barrier previously? But I mean like, that's it? No doubt there are gains to be made with a better battery, charging, cycling, cost and so forth. But without changing the regulations, a better battery can only get you more space, not higher capacity. Wild to consider.

[MVorlm]

It's not. There's _no_ law that dictates battery size. 100Whr is the largest size you can take on airlines. Economically, no laptop manufacturer is going to make a laptop you can't take on a plane.

[nfoz]

Some laptops have two batteries, one of which can be hot-swapped or removed and charged while the other keeps running in the meantime. Would love to see that on Macbooks and could be a fair compromise for the airplane problem, though obviously it will not happen. (The battery was user-removable on early Macbooks but that was long ago)

[humanistbot]

Then get an Air.

[meepmorp]

I agree. I don't want in-laptop HDMI or an SD reader - I can use an adapter for the half dozen times I'll ever need them.

But, I also want the high end processor and memory, so alas, here we are.