When the iPad 3 came out, not all of us were as excited about the new screen, because it came at a price: thickness, weight, and charge time all caused by a 42.5Wh battery that is needed to make the thing have close to the battery life of the old 25Wh iPad 2. When the new high resolution Macbook Pro came out, the same “innovative” use of a freakishly huge battery had arrived on the Macbook, with a 95Wh battery needed to make that thing run. While the public response to that has been everything from a uninformed “blame LTE” to “if it fits in there, who cares,” I still can’t do anything but ask what these products would have been like if Apple had managed to keep them powered by normal sized batteries.