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Originally Posted by Chilly
They only charge $130 to replace the battery. Thats £60-£70 for parts and labour, doesnt sound like a scam to me. OK, so they could have dirtied up the casing a bit and given users the power to change the battery themselves. How much do you rekon an official replacement battery costs? Probably about £40-50, I know dell certainly charge that kind of money at retail or more.
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So its a £20 labour charge that you wouldn't otherwise have. Sounds like a ripoff to me. But to be honest, that's not the point. Laptop batteries start to degrade pretty much from the moment you start using them. You don't necessarily want to replace the battery when its completely dead, so you get a spare before you reach that point. Plus, if you're actually using your light, thin sub-notebook in the real world, you know, like travelling and stuff, the ability to swap in a spare battery to keep working, (watch movies, whatever) is an absolute boon. It feels like this is a device designed to be used around the home or office (close to a wireless network), which makes its thinness much less valuable; I don't really care about having the lightest/thinnest lappy when I'm at home/work, but I do care about it when I have to carry the damn thing, and that's when this is at its least useful. Don't get me wrong, I actually really fancy the idea of a Mac sub-notebook but this is misconceived.