>Reality indicates that most of their restrictions are about protecting users who don't know better.... you're not going to "accidentally" replace your CPU. Yo

>Reality indicates that most of their restrictions are about protecting users who don't know better.... you're not going to "accidentally" replace your CPU. You might not accidentally replace your CPU, but you might take up an offer from an unauthorized computer repair shop to upgrade the CPU in your Mac. Obviously they wouldn't care so much about you replacing the CPU yourself, but if you're paying money to a third party, Apple would be losing business, because Apple makes money on support and service plans. Apple would also make more money when users purchase a whole brand new Mac with a better processor, as opposed to simply purchasing a CPU upgrade for their existing Mac. Would it not therefore be in Apple's interest to consider some means of disabling unauthorized CPU upgrades? That would not be "making things closed and locked down just for the hell of it" - making things closed and locked down just happens to be a very effective business strategy.