Will an IPAD out live a Laptop under the same usage?

[xune]

The batteries are replaceable for $99 at any Apple Store or by sending it in:

You can send it back to Apple and they will replace the battery for $100.00.

No, they aren't. Apple doesn't replace the battery when you send it in with a hundred bucks - they give you another iPad of the same specs and clone your old one. The procedure and hardware for replacing the batteries isn't cost-effective, even at $100 a pop.

Their business plan - and they're probably right - is that 99% of their customers won't keep an iPad long enough for the batteries to go bad and use the service. Five years down the line, someone looking for Apple to replace the batteries on an iPad 1 will probably get a letter of apology and a coupon towards an iPad 5, not new batteries.

Here's what is says for verbatim at Apple's website:

Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $99, plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an environmentally friendly manner.

And if they end up replacing the entire iPad with a new one.. all the better!

A coupon for an Pad5?.. Definitely!!

 

[Seadog]

If they give you a replacement ipad, it will be a refurbished unit. However, I buy refurbished Macs all the time and never regretted it. They are as good or better than a new one.

 

[epb]

Here's what is says for verbatim at Apple's website:

Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $99, plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an environmentally friendly manner.

That is indeed what it says, but what I'm telling you is what will happen. No one's cacking these puppies up and installing new batteries. You get new batteries in a different iPad.