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minus-squareJordan LundlinkEnglish27•edit-29 months agoI don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear. Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out. https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x
minus-square@agent_flounderlinkEnglish4•9 months agoTrue but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.
I don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear.
Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.
https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x
True but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.