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The Wii Disassembled
mrmcgeeber writes "There are two ways to take apart the Wii. The first, as demonstrated by Popular Science, involves breaking the Wii open due to a lack of tools. The second method is a more formal Wii disassembly guide, which is provided by InformIT.com. Either way, you can see some detailed pictures of the internals of the Wii and how the parts are laid out. The InformIT.com version also includes an eight minute teardown video."
smashmyps3.com
Theres more as well..
I haven't a clue why people would want to do this, but its their money being wasted.
liqbase
In case you really were interested- Torx bits weren't designed to keep end users from accessing the internals, they were designed to make assembly more efficient. Flathead and Phillips screws require the operator to line the bit up with the slots, the Torx design lines up much more quickly and is less likely to pop out of the socket once it is engaged. Supposedly torx improve production times.
At least, this is what was explained to me by the Craftsmen rep when I complained about having to buy a crapload of torx bits to work on my car, which seemingly has nothing but torx.
To see the look of horror on the faces of obsessive fanboys who have nothing better to do with their lives than camp outside a shop for a couple of days because they absolutely cannot wait a few more weeks until things calm down and you can just walk into the shop and get one with no hassle.
And it wasn't their money they were wasting, they took donations (and the people donating knew exactly how the money was going to be used beforehand).
I personally find this a useful public service in teaching obsessive fanboys the importance of a sense of perspective.
A few years ago, shortly after the release of the PowerMac G5, someone posted a website about how they'd been given an unwanted PowerMac G5, and because it didn't run Windows, they posted a step-by-step article on how to remove the guts, and replace them with an Athlon motherboard (not even a particularly powerful CPU either) and all the relevent trimmings. Even the case wasn't unscarred by the process.
At the time, with the PowerMac G5 generally considered the machine absolutely everyone wanted, the results positively put some geeks in shock, and generated an unbelievable amount of outrage. The author ended up confessing he'd been given the PowerMac G5's case, not the entire machine.
I see these stunts as a not terribly impressive attempt to do much the same thing. The PS3 is a much desired (albeit by a small hard-core) and unavailable, expensive, computer. To get one and then break it into pieces is going to upset that group of wanters greatly.
A better option might be to put the Gamecube's guts into a PS3 case, posting step-by-step instructions and being generally dismissive of the PS3's own hardware. Bonus points for cutting holes in the elegant PS3's case so you can plug the controllers and memory cards in.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.