I'll take a lighter, cooler laptop over a "hackable" one any day, if that's the tradeoff. You notice things like weight, fan noise, and heat every day, but it'

I'll take a lighter, cooler laptop over a "hackable" one any day, if that's the tradeoff. You notice things like weight, fan noise, and heat every day, but it's easy to get hung up on the idea that someday you might need to swap hard drives maybe. Maybe I'm just lucky or gentle, but I got nine years of life out of my TiBook and couldn't be happier with the Air that replaced it.