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MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes

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As long as they eventually offer the battery for separate purchase, or at least affordable, quick and easy replacements at your local genius bar, they'll have solved one of the major gripes with the Air.

was anyone really that worried about having to replace a permanently dead battery? the main benefit of an easily swappable battery that doesn't require tools is the ability to carry multiple charged batteries on long flights or whatever. battery 1 goes dead, you just hibernate the machine, swap out the battery with a second one (which takes 10 seconds on any normal laptop), and resume working.

(which takes 10 seconds on any normal laptop)

Any normal macbook! My vista laptop takes 9 minutes to hibernate and then wake up.

you're using vista so i'm assuming you have like 3 gigs of ram. yeah, i guess that would take a while to swap to and from disk.

Damn. If that's not an exaggeration, you have something wrong. I have 2gb of RAM (Home premium, Lenovo X60) and both operations take something like 30 seconds. I haven't clocked it, but it's nowhere near 9 minutes.

Mines a Fujitsu lifebook, AMD dual core and yes 3 gig of ram. I've run it with linux for a while but needed vista for work. Yes, I do think there's something wrong. It takes about 90 seconds to get to hibernate, but always more than 5 minutes to become useable again after wakeup. Any advice? People tell me my macbook would make a much better vista computer with bootcamp. Anyone have any experience with this?

Have you tried reinstalling windows?

At least with the MBA I don't have to worry about treating the battery right, like taking it out if I don't use it. I never do that, and feel slightly bad about it.

My only concern would be if the battery were prone to exploding. It's nice to be able to take it out to be safe against that.

I travel a lot and with more recent laptops I've never needed a second battery

Me neither, but my MacBook Pro's battery has close to 200 cycles and it's pretty much dead. I'll need to get a new one, and it's nice to be able to just swap it out.

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