[ilyt]

Not really planned obsolescence, just lack of spare parts. 10 year old laptop will work just fine, it will just be hard to get replacement keyboard or batteries.

> Dell and Apple can learn that there are consumers out there who want low cost minimalist options with long battery lives and long operational lives.

They don't want their business and low marigin sales.

Also Macbook air has what, 18 hours of battery life ? That's enough for vast majority of users.

[Retric]

A MacBook has up to 18 hours when new, but you can get far less than that.

The real advantage of long battery life isn’t so much the duration when new but both reducing the number of charge cycles and preserving battery life as the device ages.