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-[* black] Battery time! We were ''not'' fans of [guide|92534|last year's iPads|stepid=172878|new_window=true], which ditched the relatively repair-friendly, iPhone-style stretch-release adhesive pull tabs of yesteryear—and replaced it with what was effectively superglue to secure the battery.
-[* black] This year, pull tabs are back in style—twelve of them, and they're even U-shaped, which should give fixers a second chance to get a strip out should one of them break. Neat!
+[* black] Battery time! We were ''not'' fans of [guide|92534|last year's iPads|stepid=172878|new_window=true], which skipped out on the stretch-release battery tabs.
+[* black] This year, pull tabs are back in style—six U-shaped strips this time! Each strip has ''two'' tabs, giving fixers a second chance should one of them break. Neat!
[* icon_note] Maybe we pegged this iPad all wrong. It was painful to open, but these adhesive strips pull out [guide|115201|buttery smooth|stepid=221324|new_window=true]—
-[* black] Only, that's not enough to dislodge this battery. With all the tabs pulled, there's ''another'' patch of supergoop running all down the left side. ''Sigh.'' Time to break out the pry tools.
+[* black] But the smooth stops there. huge patch of supergoop runs all down the left side. ''Sigh.'' Time to break out the pry tools.
[* black] This iPad's powered by a 7812 mAh battery running at 3.77 V, for 29.45 Wh—a slight downgrade from the 30.8 Wh pack in the [guide|92534|10.5" iPad Pro|stepid=172878|new_window=true], and a lot smaller than the most recent [guide|113786|Microsoft Surface Pro's|stepid=217552|new_window=true] 45 Wh battery.