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Expect to pay for battery replacement
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I agree. The best ones are walls of text with bolding and italics. Perhaps a couple of font size changes too and maybe switching the odd phrase to red.
You hate non-user replaceable batteries because they're cheaper? Dell's user replaceable netbook battery is $150, makes your netbook bigger, and sure doesn't last 10 hours.
Apple's batteries are smaller, last longer, and replacement cost is comparable if not cheaper than the alternative. I've never really figured out what world these people live in where laptop batteries have ever been cheap, built-in or not.
AND THE BELOVED "I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO DISABLE CAPS LOCK" METHOD.
Or When Every Single Word Is Written With A First Capital Letter.*
*: How can one do that all the time, it seriously hampers the flow of writing.
You also get a brand new iPad so the 100 feels more reasonable. It bears mentioning that the battery is user-replaceable, its just not a simple thing to do. There are plenty of cheap iPhone battery replacement kits out there. I've had a Mophie JuicePack on my 3GS almost from when I bought it and wouldn't hesitate to get one for the iPad, should I get one. Not only will it double my usable battery life, but also keep my internal battery fresh.
Being without your phone is slightly different than your MBP or iPad.
The Dell mini 9 (and 10v, and maybe 10) use a user changeable battery which runs the machine for 3-4 hours and costs $99 plus shipping if you want a replacement.
I'm certainly not complaining about a $99 10-hour battery. Plus, the word is they will actually be sending you a refurb unit with a new battery, meaning you'll get a nicely refreshed iPad (clean and shiny - every Apple refurb device I've had has been cosmetically perfect) and probably a short 30-60 day warranty, too.
Not a bad deal at all.
I'm certainly not complaining about a $99 10-hour battery. Plus, the word is they will actually be sending you a refurb unit with a new battery, meaning you'll get a nicely refreshed iPad (clean and shiny - every Apple refurb device I've had has been cosmetically perfect) and probably a short 30-60 day warranty, too.
Not a bad deal at all.
Its hard to make a cost comparison to other batteries until we know the mHA rating of the iPad's battery.
Every refurb I've bought from Apple, including replacement iPhones, come with the standard 1 year warranty and are eligible for AppleCare.
I hate non-user replaceable batteries because they prevent me from changing them. Instead I need to send them to apple. While on the iPad you may be able to live w/o your iPad for a week, the same cannot be said for my phone or laptop.
so what? you get a new ipad for 100 bucks and if still in the one year period free. plus if its a non removable battery it makes it bigger.
Huh? My colleague had a defective battery in his MBP. He went over to the mall for lunch, walked into his genius appointment, got a new battery and the genius even cleaned his MBP inside an out. All for free and less than 45 minutes and the thing looked brand new when he returned.
Even those that have had to send them in have been out less than 2 days turnaround.
If this doesn't please you, there are numerous places on the internet that will sell you replacement batteries for apple gear and give you the simple instructions for doing it yourself, or you local Apple authorized repair center can do it for you.
A refurb unit with a new battery is better than a brand new unit from the factory? Brand new unit means it could be 2011 model instead of 2010. That's not going to happen.
Its plain and simple, Apple will not send you a new model or new unit. They'll send you another exact unit, most likely used/returned units that has been tested.
Don't kid yourself, they are not any better than any new one just because they got tested. For all we know, all they do is power it on, run software test and that's it. They do the same quality checks on the new ones, just at random time to ensure nothing changes between batches, which rarely do.
I've had plenty of refurb devices from Apple and they are cosmetically perfect, feature the same warranty, and have never given me any issues. So after two years I have no problem paying a hundred and getting what amounts to a new iPad in my eyes.
For iPods, it is my experience that Apple replaces the exterior of refurb unit with new parts. They are too cosmetically flawless to be anything else.
In general, I agree that I usually prefer refurb hardware to new, if the refurb process is good, like Apple's. New hardware is spot tested, maybe 1 in 100 units. Refurbed hardware is individually tested and examined for perfect functionality. Mistakes happen in both, but seem to be less common, imo, in refurbs.