A lot has been made about the lack of a swappable battery. That's in the "minus" column for me because I actually have the "Dell bay battery" for my Dell laptop - bought for $129, btw. With the bay battery and the stupid extended regular battery, my estimated battery life is 5 hours. Hmm.

OTOH, let's consider the other slightly more normal developers and non-developers at my work... Of the 200 folks I know, exactly two have a spare battery that they use on trips (and I'm including myself).

Three of us have the empower adapter for long flights - and for the 14-16 hour flights to Asia or if you choose to use the optical drive to watch a movie, spare batteries aren't really going to get you through the flight...

Finally, exactly zero people have ever actually replaced their battery because it "went dead".

We make a big thing of the fact that you have to bust out a screwdriver, but I'd propose that it's not a "real" factor for the vast majority of people.

BTW, any one know if the run times they're quoting are based on the SSD drive or a regular HDD?