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by qwerta 4469 days ago
My laptop has swapable battery. I can also swap HDD bay from my desktop when I am traveling.

It is really funny to see Mac fans excited about simple external battery. This stuff is around for decades!
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alexcroox 4469 days ago
What laptop do you have? Macbook Pro's are so thin now even a RJ45 hole is too tall. I can forgive them for not having a replaceable battery for size/weight and noise reduction having everything so tightly integrated.
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jsnell 4469 days ago
The ThinkPad x240 is thinner and lighter than a MacBook Pro and still manages to find space for an external battery, an RJ45 jack, and a VGA connector.
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natdempk 4469 days ago
Its not thinner. The x240 is 0.8 inches thick [1] and the MacBook Pro is 0.71 inches thick. [2] Not trying to fanboy here having used both of those laptops recently.

[1] http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x24...

[2] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

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jsnell 4469 days ago
Thanks, and sorry about the misinformation. I got my info from http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/, which was the first result for a search for "Macbook Pro dimensions". Didn't realize that was apparently obsolete info.
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qwerta 4469 days ago
HP Elitebook something.
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mikeash 4469 days ago
I don't think I've seen anyone get excited about it yet.
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