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December 20, 2003

Mac, the Disposable Computer

So, I'm all in favor of this guy who is going around and spray painting advertisements to point out that the IPod has an unreplaceable battery. But, isn't this a general problem with Apple? At EPIC, we have a Mac office. I am the only PC user. And when the Imacs break, you throw them away. They're all integrated. You really can't do much with the machine besides putting in more memory. And that doesn't help much. I was once distilling a 500-page book on my Imac and it took the computer 45 mintues to complete the task, and then there were errors in the PDF. On my little Vaio, a computer built for portability, not power, it took less than two minutes.

Posted by chris at December 20, 2003 11:09 AM

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That will make you think. It is so incredibly common for devices to have rechargeable batteries that are replaceable that it is likely that the iPod design (or lack of) was very intentional and deliberate.

Posted by: Adrian Pritchett at December 20, 2003 12:45 PM