You could just as easily say that the computer companies made it that way. More to the point, I'm under the impression that you can seriously injure yourself b

You could just as easily say that the computer companies made it that way. More to the point, I'm under the impression that you can seriously injure yourself by working on a television, as it has large capacitors (or something, I don't know much about hardware). I've never heard that said about a laptop, and I have no qualms about changing parts in my computers, while I'm fairly afraid of my televisions.