dohidied said:
So it's not really a matter of paranoia, it's more a matter of difficulty.
Agreed.
Windows boxes are all fairly straightforward when it comes to cracking open the case. Same goes for some Windows notebooks as well. They are pretty generic and more or less just a big box with parts inside.
Macs on the other hand, are much more intricate and not so easy to get inside. The design of the case in most Macs is "non-standard" and the components are made to fit within that finite amount of space. It can be done, but you run a risk of damaging something that might not have any connection to what you are trying to accomplish by cracking the case.
Not to mention that it is no easy task to get inside most Macs to begin with.
Macs in general really don't need any upgrading (with the exception of RAM maybe, depending on what apps you run on a regular basis) and they run extremely well in their standard configs. The 'need' to upgrade I find is more of a holdover from some people's Windows PC days where you almost had to in some scenarios in order for some new software to run properly under the Windows OS.
Macs are harmonized so the hardware and the software work with each other in a much better way.
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