Point taken - I guess I should have said user serviceable for upgrades. When you can do this you are able to get more life out of a laptop and avoid having to

Point taken - I guess I should have said user serviceable for upgrades. When you can do this you are able to get more life out of a laptop and avoid having to discard it for a new one. I'm pretty sure on Macbooks today you cannot upgrade the internals b/c they are sealed and permanently soldered to the mainboards. IMO I don't see huge advantage for it being any lighter or thinner than they are today in order to give up the option. I know I don't have a choice if I want to own a Mac and for the most part that's OK. However, as an Apple customer I wish they would engineer this in to allow people to easily extend the life/function of their products (thus reducing the load on landfills). I was not trying to be anti-Apple fanboy - I do enjoy Macs (and have had several over the years). :)