Not a Mac fanboy (no, really), but I also wonder why the fuss. I tend to buy Macs for the family, including a couple laptops, and other than that whole flaming-lap-o-death episode, the batteries have not been a problem. Quite a contrast to my own Toshiba laptop, whose designers apparently had not accounted for the notion that some people leave their laptop plugged in when sitting at a desk. The resulting "overcharge" killed the first battery in under 60 days, and the second (even though I was being fairly careful) in under a year. I suppose that many cell-phones and laptops suffer the same lack of engineering, leading their users to believe this is a deal breaker. (The deal-breakers are the inept/evil exclusive carrier, the price, and the geek-fanboy impression using one of these would leave :-)
Apple, for all their faults, apparently hires actual engineers to design battery-power gear.
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Not a Mac fanboy (no, really), but I also wonder why the fuss. I tend to buy Macs for the family, including a couple laptops, and other than that whole flaming-lap-o-death episode, the batteries have not been a problem. Quite a contrast to my own Toshiba laptop, whose designers apparently had not accounted for the notion that some people leave their laptop plugged in when sitting at a desk. The resulting "overcharge" killed the first battery in under 60 days, and the second (even though I was being fairly careful) in under a year. I suppose that many cell-phones and laptops suffer the same lack of engineering, leading their users to believe this is a deal breaker. (The deal-breakers are the inept/evil exclusive carrier, the price, and the geek-fanboy impression using one of these would leave :-)
Apple, for all their faults, apparently hires actual engineers to design battery-power gear.