[Gllug] shop with laptops

[James Laver]

On 15 Aug 2009, at 19:47, Nix wrote:

> On 15 Aug 2009, James Laver uttered the following:
>> Then they made the battery non-user-replaceable.
>
> Are *any* devices with li-ion batteries user-replaceable? I thought it
> was a condition of the contract they sign with the battery  
> manufacturers
> that the battery must be matched to its charging circuit or something.

I've had a number of laptops with Li-Ion batteries, and they've always  
been user replaceable.

Perhaps you're talking about taking apart the battery slab? I'm not  
keen on doing something crazy like that, but I do want to be able to  
replace the slab with a new one.

--James
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