Replace the Surface Book's battery?

[onVacation]

Hi,

 

so I've recently started a thread asking wether I should get the SP4 or an iPad Pro 9.7.

Right now I'm actually thinking of buying a Surface Book.

 

One thing that's also interesting for me to consider is the repairability as I'm planning to use the device I'm about to buy for the next few years. 

 

Now, we've probably all seen the terrible ifixit rating of 1/10 and we all agree that the actual "tablet part" is near impossible to repair. 

BUT: The one thing that is most likely to "break" is the battery. 

Well, not really break, but lose it's capacity.

 

From what I've read the battery works this way: When in use it drains the battery in bottom part first before using the one in the top and when charging it charges the top one first. This way it ensures that the top can be undocked at any time. 

What this would mean though, is, that the battery which is most used and therefore most likely to lose capacity, is the bottom one and if I would almost never use it in tablet, but rather in clipboard mode (as MS calls it and which I plan on doing) the top battery would probably be at 95% at the end of the day, because it's just used when I undock the top to turn it around.

This way, the battery that would have to be replaced after, say 3 years, would most likely be the bottom one.

 

From what I've seen in the ifixit review this should be fairly easy to do, as it is glued right do the bottom panel and connected with just one plug. So, I'd just need to get of the bottom panel (which does not really tend to break, like the screen does) and then apply heat until I can "scratch" off the battery.

 

 

Am I right with this logic? Or do batteries work completely different than I thought? Or is it much harder to glue it all back together than I thought?

[onVacation]

No ideas?

[Dackzy]

You cant replace the battery in the tablet part, but in the bottom I am not so sure because I have not fixed one year, since they don't sell them in Denmark. Be really carefull with hot things (the glue) and batteries. If IfixIt can do it you can but it will take some time.

[onVacation]

34 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

If IfixIt can do it you can but it will take some time.

Well, that's the point.

Ifixit DID take out the battery in the tablet part, but for the bottom part, they just took off the panel and said "Well, well, there's the big battery glued to the back panel" and then proceeded to take out the GPU and the remaining connectors.

[Dackzy]

12 minutes ago, onVacation said:

Well, that's the point.

Ifixit DID take out the battery in the tablet part, but for the bottom part, they just took off the panel and said "Well, well, there's the big battery glued to the back panel" and then proceeded to take out the GPU and the remaining connectors.

I guess you can then but be really carefull and make sure that you can buy batteries for it.