When the top-of-the-line Apple notebook was announced last Tuesday, eyebrows were raised when Macworld Expo keynote presenter Phil Schiller revealed that the battery of the 17-incher was, as he put it, "integrated" - i.e. Apple has trumpeted the battery's long running time and lifetime, claiming that it could power the MacBook Pro "up to 8 hours on a single charge" and could be recharged "up to 1000 times - compared with only 200 to 300 times for typical notebooks." If you assume that the costs of a replaceable battery's case, contacts, latches, and other hardware might cancel out the labor cost of the MacBook Pro's battery replacement, the Apple laptop batteries isn't inexpensive when compared with batteries for other 17-inch laptops. Furthermore, the 17-inch MacBook Pro's integrated battery makes it impossible for the frugal MacBooker to pick up a third-party replacement (or spare), such as the $129 battery from MacConnection.com for the previous 17-inch MacBook Pro.