PC system layouts have got better over the years but some from even five years ago (within the time frame of the 8/9500 and early iMacs) were awful too. Personally, I've always appreciated the efforts that Apple put into the design of most of their cases. Usually I find that you had to do something fiddly or tedious but once that was out of the way, the convenience of the design came into it's own.
Take the 5200 and it's decendants. Six, covered, stardrive screws to take the front off before you could replace the CD-ROM of floppy. Very tedious and you have to move most of the stuff off the desk to do it. But then you don't even have to disconnect the front bezel, you can just hang it on the structure. After that the drives or speaker pods or whatever are easy to replace. And the instant, slide-out motherboard on all the Macs that had it forgave all their shortcomings as far as I'm concerned. I've always used that to impress PC techies! Also, in the tray-loading iMac's defence, it was a 'closed system' and upgradeability was not something it was intended for. -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
