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I think you’re missing my point, I am saying you cannot buy a replacement Apple Li-Poly battery from Apple to replace it yourself, as they specifically state the Macbook will need to be brought to an Apple Store and have your laptop being held up all day at an Apple Store for them to replace. What if you don’t have time to schedule an appointment which it says you need to do? This is not the most convenient of situations, can we at least agree on this?

That is not the point you've been making so don't try to pretend it is. Actual turn around time is about three hours. Not bad for five years. But let's assume it is "all day?" Let's see... what is that in percentage of the time you've owned the computer. Assuming "all day" means twelve hours, and that the lifetime is exactly 5 years (including one leap year ;^)>) which is 43,824 hours, then the time you might be without your MacBook Pro is .02738% of the time you've owned it. How onerous. What a burden.

What about if you ship it off (Apple claims three day turn around). So let's allow 2nd day air as reasonable... so make it one seven day week. There are 260 weeks in five years. So you'd be without your beloved notebook computer for .385% of the time you own it. That is just too much to bear... so get your panties in a wad, drop to the ground and have a tantrum.

Frankly, if I need to replace the battery, I probably will do it after the five years so I can hand the notebook down to a grandchild and buy a new one that has far better specs for the NEXT five years of happy, productive computing. If I had bought the 13" I would have amortized just $20 a month for my computer. Add the cost of a new battery after five years, that cost would be $2 more. Not a worry to me.

Talk about strawman arguments and yet you accuse me of doing just that when you ignore my points of inconvenience of not allowing a user to replace their own battery. Also the peace of mind knowing some Apple dweeb isn't scouring my hard drive for credit card info or other dubious intent.

You stats: [Assuming "all day" means twelve hours, and that the lifetime is exactly 5 years (including one leap year ;^)>) which is 43,824 hours, then the time you might be without your MacBook Pro is .02738% of the time you've owned it. How onerous. What a burden.] is totally irrelevant to me. I don't care how many years or hours or whatever I don't want to have to bring my computer anywhere if I don't have to.

In this age of Obama are you prepared to allow the government to be the only ones with a supply of toilet paper so any time to use the restroom, you need to have the government to wipe your a$$? This is the same parallel as having to go to Apple for them to change out a battery in your laptop. Totally unnecessary and slightly controlling. BTW I never knew Big Brother was one Steve Jobs.