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| - | [* black] Up next, our favorite Air feature: battery removal. Thanks to this tidy plastic frame, the battery is held in with five screws and no adhesive |
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| - | [* icon_note] It's a design carried over from previous models—but if [http://youtu.be/hajnEpCq5SE?t=2m9s|yesterday's reveal|new_window=true] is anything to go by, it could be on the outs. It looks to us like Apple didn't like |
| + | [* black] Up next, our favorite Air feature: battery removal. Thanks to this tidy plastic frame, the battery is held in with five screws and no adhesive—easy for fixers, [http://www.wired.com/2014/12/product-design-and-recycling/|easy for recyclers|new_window=true]. |
| + | [* icon_note] It's a design carried over from previous models—but if [http://youtu.be/hajnEpCq5SE?t=2m9s|yesterday's reveal|new_window=true] is anything to go by, it could be on the outs. It looks to us like Apple didn't like wasting internal space on a plastic frame that could instead be more battery. |
| [* icon_caution] In the absence of a frame, we're guessing those cells will get the glue treatment, signaling a continuation of the trend started by the [guide|9462|Retina Pro|stepid=36209|new_window=true]. | |
| [* black] The battery specs carry over as well: the Air [guide|15042|continues to sport|stepid=49087|new_window=true] a 7.6 V, 54 Wh, 7150 mAh battery. Thanks to the new Broadwell chips, we're supposed to get more life out of the same capacity: Now up to 12 hours of web browsing or video playback. | |
| [* black] For all you scorekeepers, that's .2V, 2 Wh, and a theoretical 1 hour more than the new [guide|36157|Dell XPS 13|stepid=80995|new_window=true]. |