I've had to change the battery of every laptop I ever owned after a year or two after warranty expires. Why would anyone buy a laptop with a non removable battery? It's crazy.
> Why would anyone buy a laptop with a non removable battery? It's crazy.
For me personally, it's because I never use my laptop without it being plugged in. There's nowhere I would want to use my laptop that I can't find an output (home, work, planes, airports, friends' houses, etc.)
The only exception I can think of is when actively riding public transit, but I never use my laptop in those situations.
A lot of laptops are also bought by people's employers and are a tiny cost that no one cares about (~$1,000 every 3 years for an employee making $300k+ in that amount of time). They don't care if the battery degrades.
As long as the battery lasts long enough to last an hour or two in a meeting room, its good enough. But now I work from home permanently so that doesn't even matter. I'm glad MacOS recognizes this and only charges up to 80% to preserve the battery health if I ever did need it
The only time I ever cared about battery life on a laptop was in highschool where it had to last all day without being charged.
Same goes for soldered SSDs, both components degrade with use.
It’s like buying a car with tires that last 50k miles, but if you want to replace them you have to cut off the entire drivetrain and weld on a new one. Technically possible but only with excessive effort.
>It’s like buying a car with tires that last 50k miles, but if you want to replace them you have to cut off the entire drivetrain and weld on a new one.
I think that car manufacturers can borrow a lot of bad ideas from IT: not being able to own a car, instead just renting it from the company, artificially gimping it and requiring a sum of money to "unlock the features".
I feel like the more egregious example is BMW's subscription model for heated seats. I think once you buy the self-driving package, you get to keep it, along with future updates. Sure, it's pricey but it's also an incredible feature. The idea of being able to have your car do the work on interstates sounds amazing, not that I can afford it. If it required yearly payments and cost extra to upgrade, that would be pretty bad, in my opinion.
For Tesla FSD you can pay a lump sum to unlock it permanently, or you can pay a monthly fee. When I did the math I recall it would take ~4.5 years to equal the lump sum, although they say to expect price increases on the monthly plan.
Tesla also has a monthly fee to unlock rear heated seats in the Model 3.
For me personally, it's because I never use my laptop without it being plugged in. There's nowhere I would want to use my laptop that I can't find an output (home, work, planes, airports, friends' houses, etc.)
The only exception I can think of is when actively riding public transit, but I never use my laptop in those situations.
A lot of laptops are also bought by people's employers and are a tiny cost that no one cares about (~$1,000 every 3 years for an employee making $300k+ in that amount of time). They don't care if the battery degrades.