[Blue Highway]

And since most Macbooks and laptops in general are 17” or greater it was a little snarky for you to quote the lower of the 2 prices to compare with the $130 price of the Compaq. $179 freaking dollars for a battery!!!! Just damn... I wonder what the upcharge for a proprietary battery like these new Li-Poly batteries will cost? I am only guessing but they will probably be more than $179...

[Mr. Blonde]

And since most Macbooks and laptops in general are 17” or greater

Do you have something to back this up with? As I recall when the aluminum 13in MacBooks were introduced, Jobs said the plastic model was the best selling laptop they have ever had. That would say to me that 13in MacBooks are what most Macbooks would be.

I wonder what the upcharge for a proprietary battery like these new Li-Poly batteries will cost? I am only guessing but they will probably be more than $179...

Now I am a lowly Mac user taken in easily by subterfuge and only think I am getting a superior product when in fact I have what can only be called a paperweight by someone feeling generous so I could be wrong. But that support page is for the new Macbooks with the new batteries. If you look a little bit lower on that page it also says if you go to an Apple retail store you will have it back the same day. If you mail it in it will take 3-4 business days. All in all not that bad. Especially if the useful life of the battery is what is advertised, I don't imagine we will find out for a while on that front.

[PA Engineer]

"And since most Macbooks and laptops in general are 17” or greater"

You had to reach all the way to the elbow to pull that out. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so how about proving it. You have issues.

[ReignOfError]

And since most Macbooks and laptops in general are 17” or greater

Wow, when you make up "facts"you really go whole-hog. don't you? The fast majority of Apple laptop sales, and laptop sales in general, are in the 13"-15" range. 17" is the largest screen available from Apple, and from a brief check of the Web, the largest available from Lenovo and Dell. Sony, Toshiba and Compaq each have a single 18.4" model.

it was a little snarky for you to quote the lower of the 2 prices to compare with the $130 price of the Compaq.

Is the Compqg a 17"? If not, I posted the most direct, precise comparison of apples to, ahem, Apples.

$179 freaking dollars for a battery!!!! Just damn... I wonder what the upcharge for a proprietary battery like these new Li-Poly batteries will cost? I am only guessing

You don't say?

but they will probably be more than $179...

They are $179. The page I cited gives the prices for the built-in LiPo batteries in the currently shipping Macbook Pro -- in other words, the exact batteries we're talking about.