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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
We had an Mac once just to play with, the one that had all the parts in the monitor, and when it burned out there was no way for us to open it and fix it. Just having Apple look at it was going to cost us. We just tore it apart to get out the DVD that was stuck in it (with no DVD reject button on the machine!) and tossed it.
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There is a way. You just didn't know it.
http://www.ifixit.com/
In the end it comes to this: Apple's hardware is tailored to make it work with it's software. It's one package. (Hackintosh requires lotsa tricks to get it to work. And don't even think to upgrade OSx...)
I've tried to find and built a PC similar to a mac mini. It made me realize 2 things:
1) there is no way to custom built a pc with similar power as a mac mini, the size of a mac mini.
2) a custom built pc with similar power as the mac mini would save me only like $200-300. (not counting the OS)
So I just bought the mac mini, and happy with it. You can say I paid 300 dollar for the looks. Fine, it looks great. But I went for compact, silent.
(I did put a SSD in it though. That operation might well be the toughest hardware upgrade I've ever done. And that's with decades of experience in building computers and model kits. Macs aren't for tinkerers. It's for the expert of expert tinkerers)