More and more PC laptops are moving to the same model. There are a lot of benefits for the manufacturer. Fewer parts (less $ to make), less to break (less support $), can make the laptop thinner and lighter (so you can charge more $), the battery no longer has to be a easy to use shape (have you seen Apple's tapered layers of thin batteries?), extra engineering costs, etc.
There are people who really like/want removable batteries but it doesn't seem to be enough to keep most of the market supplying them. And now that laptops use less power little juice packs (not unlike those for cellphones) become reasonable. Plus in general removable batteries made a lot of sense when basic typing would only get you 3 or 4 hours, but now that many machines can do basic typing for 10+ hours a ton of users can get by without needing that second battery.
> More and more PC laptops are moving to the same model. There are a lot of benefits for the manufacturer. Fewer parts (less $ to make), less to break (less support $), can make the laptop thinner and lighter (so you can charge more $), the battery no longer has to be a easy to use shape (have you seen Apple's tapered layers of thin batteries?), extra engineering costs, etc.
Conveniently, built-in batteries also harm the resale value of a used device.
There are people who really like/want removable batteries but it doesn't seem to be enough to keep most of the market supplying them. And now that laptops use less power little juice packs (not unlike those for cellphones) become reasonable. Plus in general removable batteries made a lot of sense when basic typing would only get you 3 or 4 hours, but now that many machines can do basic typing for 10+ hours a ton of users can get by without needing that second battery.