Apple announcement recap

[Patrick Coskren]

You can easily replace the battery, that's true.

Replacing the hard drive or video card, however, is not *easy*.  It's  
merely doable without special tools.  (I've done it myself, I know  
what's involved.)  99.9% of users simply will never do it, even if the  
part in question fails completely.  They'll get it serviced.  And  
frankly, this is fine: most people shouldn't have to know how to  
service their own machine, any more than I know how to replace the  
muffler on my car.

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:38 AM, John Musbach wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2008 7:33 AM, Darby C Lines <dlines at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Components fail, that's what AppleCare is for.  And in what way is  
>> that any different than the Macbook that you already own?
>
> Simple, you can easily replace the battery and hard drive and video
> card if you have a mbp. Whereas if either fail in a air you better
> have AppleCare or you're SOL.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
>
> John Musbach
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