Troublesome and frustrating for users; embarassing, damaging and costly for manufacturers defective batteries have reminded us all that in our present times, no matter how much we have pushed the envelop of technological development, no matter how much we miniaturise, compress, and pack more features and horsepower into our techno gadgets, the mobile ones in this case, without the aging battery we still use today all of them are utterly useless. Plastic or titanium-skinned paperweights with a pricetag of well over Php30,000.
Of course this applies to those who actually have their own laptops and MacBooks, but honestly, how many Filipinos does own a MacBook or PC notebook? With the silence in the Philippine mainstream media and with a few rants and write-ups from Pinoy-tech bloggers (I mentioned tech bloggers because they represent the majority of the Pinoy MacBooks users) it’s clear the past episodes of laptop batteries being recalled is not a big deal amongst the computing Pinoys.
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