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Very relevant is also, the laptop.
It took YEARS for me to identify and purchase the one I now have. I had to pass through hurdles to discard the other options before the last one, the good one, was found - bribing vendors offering them money to obtain their products, to no avail: they would not be convinced to sell what by catalogue was said to exist. Money in the order of four digits but the decimals, just refused. The hassle, the bureaucracy, the time spent, the distraction, the embarrassment of needing to ask for money: is it worth it to sell?

Until I finally came to that piece of perfection. The battery can last 17 HOURS, real ones. It has a very nice high-resolution display, it is so light it could float, not a noise if not requested (fanless), Linux works amazingly well with it (special functions etc.) and it is quite fast for its duties. It costs 400 (yes, count three digits) of your best western currencies, and - last though not least - they can effectively be exchanged for an available, "on-the-shelf" item (the sellers did not see the exchange as a problem, they even seemed to find it normal to take the money and reciprocate with letting me leave with the desired item).

Now, with such piece of equipment, that the battery remains in good health is very important: it is part of its "function", of its mission.

And if one day you need to replace it? Well, then Intel or competitors must have come up with something better than the Pentium Silver N5000, or you would need to purchase the same or similar...

So: that a battery of a sealed device can be replaced is duly - we all hope that in case of need it a battery can be replaced. There are many elements, this included, that make you wish that that "in case of need", supposedly a "low risk" in a Cost-Risk-Benefit, is matched by an easiness of operation, a "low impact" in the same C-R-B. When I will need it, replacing those batteries will better be hassle-free. It is not granted that such need will not happen.