Ok maybe a specific percentage was incorrect, but a vast majority of the time you can tell, because a, screws are stripped out. b, screws not put back in the proper hole. c, screws missing. d, tape has been torn, moved shifted, gone. Among any other number of signs.
Macs really are different than PCs in that a tech can actually tell if someone has been in it. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head would be the power macs because of their very nature of being easy to get into and work on.
a careful end user could disassemble his book and put it back together without causing anyone to become suspicious.
While this is true in theory, in practice I've found it to be quite different. I work at an apple authorized service center as well and maybe your users are different than mine but we can tell 90 % of the time weather someone has been in their machine or not. Of the ones we can tell, that they have been in their machine, their upgrade/modification ended up breaking their stuff and voiding their warranty.
they still don't have a replaceable battery
Technically that's not true, the iPod battery is replaceable in all revisions, just because it's not "easy" to do doesn't mean it can't be done. I work in an apple service center, we do iPod batteries about once or twice a month. Truthfully replacing the battery is a simple issue, takes about 15 minutes at the most.
So true, they even teach it in school. Just got out of a windows server 2003 class and there was no "why" to any of the lessions. The entiretiy of the class was "this is the button to push to do this"
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Ok maybe a specific percentage was incorrect, but a vast majority of the time you can tell, because a, screws are stripped out. b, screws not put back in the proper hole. c, screws missing. d, tape has been torn, moved shifted, gone. Among any other number of signs.
Macs really are different than PCs in that a tech can actually tell if someone has been in it. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head would be the power macs because of their very nature of being easy to get into and work on.
a careful end user could disassemble his book and put it back together without causing anyone to become suspicious.
While this is true in theory, in practice I've found it to be quite different. I work at an apple authorized service center as well and maybe your users are different than mine but we can tell 90 % of the time weather someone has been in their machine or not. Of the ones we can tell, that they have been in their machine, their upgrade/modification ended up breaking their stuff and voiding their warranty.
they still don't have a replaceable battery
Technically that's not true, the iPod battery is replaceable in all revisions, just because it's not "easy" to do doesn't mean it can't be done. I work in an apple service center, we do iPod batteries about once or twice a month. Truthfully replacing the battery is a simple issue, takes about 15 minutes at the most.
So true, they even teach it in school. Just got out of a windows server 2003 class and there was no "why" to any of the lessions. The entiretiy of the class was "this is the button to push to do this" lame