Comment Re:Come on home to Linux (Score 1) 965
Oh come on. Are you suggesting I can walk into a local computer parts shop, pick up a replacement part for my iMac, then follow some painstaking procedure to disassemble the thing and be back up in running in a matter of a few hours? I've replaced a hard drive on an iMac before, it is not the quick swap out you seem to be suggesting.
I used to love to tinker with this sort of thing when I was younger, but these days I'm busy doing actual, real work on my machines and just don't have the time. Using a machine made up of standard parts helps me minimize down time. Not to mention the parts are significantly cheaper (Apple is really proud of their replacement parts, have you ever seen a price list? Oh I know, go to eBay, because that's fast, esp, when you're in the middle of a project, approaching a deadline, and need to get back up and running right now) and readily available from a local source.