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by TakuYam 1687 days ago
True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment? In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.

Port damage and clumsy or messy employees are far more likely to cause issues.

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> In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.

MacBooks can easily last four to six years in a corporate environment - and heavy load on the battery drastically impact it in two years.

In my experience the battery was the issue for most MacBook users.
>True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment?

Biggest issue by far. We have a fleet of 100+ MacBooks in my office and expanded batteries are probably the only thing we have that goes wrong with them. They're rock solid otherwise. The new replaceable batteries is a huge deal.

Your parent commenter mentioned connector as well. What else couldn't be repaired on-site that could be repaired off-site? I'm pretty sure anything that for anything that couldn't be repaired on-site they're just going to replace the whole computer.