New MacBook Pros have non-upgradeable SSDs, seemingly under-sized batteries

Apples new laptop batteries are designed to come in .5 Milliamps UNDER the FAA/TSA limit. Samsung spooked the feds, and this is one result.

Here's something that jumped into my mind:

- Samsung recently recalled their flagship phone because of battery problems (http://www.samsung.com/us/note7recall/)

- Intel recently recalled all their Basis Peak smart watches because they might overheat (https://www.mybasis.com/safety/)

The Samsung thing, especially, must have worried Apple's engineers (their marketing and sales departments probably was ecstatic) I expect they will have bought dozens of these phones, attempting to figure out what went wrong.

Could Apple have made a last-minute change to the batteries because they do not want this to happen to them?

Stopped in the other day to check the new MBPs. They are beautiful, but I agree they have gone too far in the weight/beauty direction at the expense of practicality. I liked the touch bar, but typing on the keyboard felt like typing on a brick, despite its precision.

Sure, you can hook up a keyboard for day to day use, but that feels suboptimal from my perspective.

I wonder if they're having manufacturing or yield problems on this round. The first "Retina" machines had a serious issue with under-performing displays that took some time to iron out.

Johnny Ive has personally invested 10 minutes in beautifying the SSD, and 100 hours beautifying the PR video pitching the SSD beautification process. So fuck your concerns about replacability and other real world issues. Replay the PR campaign video 10 times over and covet the irreplaceable, soldered, genius of an SSD. Rediscover your inner sheep. Be the sheep Apple meant for you to be.