Thus Spake Josh

The musings of a tech head heavily entrenched in the Apple camp. You may see the occasional photo posted from my iPhone.

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Posted 9 months ago

Marco Arment on the iMac Harddrive Kerfuffle

http://www.marco.org/2011/05/12/owc-imac-hard-drive-complaint

I don’t think this is a big deal: iMac hard drives are not considered user-serviceable at all, since accessing the bay requires the extremely risky removal of the screen (and the dust-free reattachment afterward). This is something that Apple only wants authorized service centers to do, understandably, because otherwise they’d have a bunch of people botching the repair and then complaining to unfortuate Genius Bar workers that their now-much-more-broken iMac should be replaced at Apple’s expense.

This is the same reason I don’t have a problem with Apple using pentalobe screws on the iPhone 4. It keeps idiots from opening it, but I can easily order a screw driver to replace them.