Re:Turned out "well?" (Score 1)

I'd suggest that that was more a case of a stuck up store manager, than what apple themselves actually think or do. Every desktop mac i've owned have had easy access to its internals (LC iii pizzabox!). Some machines, granted, have not - such as the iMac and certain other models. But even on the laptop models do they have an easy way to change ram and put in an airport card or whatever - on my pismo G3, there were two latches on the keyboard to push, and instant access to the ram slots and so on. The current Mac I have is the G4 mirror drive door (aka the windtunnel). There was no sticker anywhere that said "warranty void". In fact, there is a huge handle on the side that you pull, and down comes the entire motherboard (as it's stuck on the side-wall), with instant access to the ram, to pci slots and so on. In my manual, there is detailed descriptions of how to change the parts of the computer such as ram, harddrives, cd-roms and so on. The harddrives even comes in neat bays that you flip a handle, and it slides out. The windtunnel is well known throughout the mac community, due to the fact that its fans are -extremely- loud, both in the power supply and the cabinet itself. Apple even offered a fan replacement to the customers who complained. I was the reciever of one of those packages. If Apple had been concerned about "letting only technicians do the work to keep warranty", they would not have sent me what I got. I got a new power supply, as well as new fans. I also got detailed instructions of how to dismantle the exisiting powersupply (which required quite a lot of work because the cables are rooted behind "everything else". The whole procedure took me an hour or so. Half a year later, something in my computer failed, and I sent it in for service. I got a full repair and even extended warranty for free, even though I'd essentially dismantled the whole computer myself (and they of course knew about this).