Why does Apple put all kinds of weird screws on your Mac and iPhone that take an Apple Genius to unlock?
Because a little guy lives inside there doing all the work! HaaHAa! *rimshot*
Microsoft commissioned Eldon Dedini to make the comic above and a couple others back in 1985 to poke fun at the Macintosh. The comics were made for Microsoft’s marketing team, but weren’t distributed. To Microsoft’s credit, opening the original Mac was difficult as hell, and it took more tools than just a screw driver – and Apple certainly hasn’t made it any easier since then.
Source: Reddit
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
2 responses to “The Real Reason Apple Doesn’t Want You Opening Your Mac [Comic]”
Buster: This is absolutely false information, and I’m shocked and surprised at your lack of experience in this regard.
Example: For well over a decade Mac Pro’s have a single latch that opens the side of the computer for installation of hard drives, RAM and expansion cards. Prior to the Mac Pro, the various headless Macs (G5, G4, G3, 8600, 8500, Mac IIci, 700, etc.) always had easy access doors that swung open for customization.
The current crop of Mac minis have a round bottom that simply screws off to access RAM and hard drive. My MacBook Pro (2010 model) has about 8 or 9 screws on the bottom with standard Phillips heads that have allowed me to easily replace the hard drive and access the RAM. A couple of months ago I removed the 500GB drive installed a 1TB drive by myself with a single screwdriver in all of 15 minutes without a single bit of frustration, swearing or bruised knuckles.
I’ll grant that iMacs, MacBook Airs, iPhones, iPads and iPods aren’t easy to get into, but they’re also very complex and compact machines where miniaturization makes them very delicate, and it’s really a good idea to keep amateur fingers from mucking up the guts of these devices. As consumer-level machines, if Apple made them user accessible, their costs for servicing and repairs would go out the roof, and there would be a catastrophic rise in complaints about Apple products that the users themselves have messed up.
I agree with you Iwdesign1, if you looked at the review for opening a surface vs an ipad, the ipad is infinitely easier to open. There was an article on yahoo about some guy who became a millionaire or something for swapping iPhone batteries and repairs, because the parts are cheap and with some experience its a pretty simple thing to do. the 08 Macbook pro’s had a latch to access the battery/hard with the push and pull of it. Of course as things get smaller and lighter it gets more difficult. But it looks like they do try to make it simple.