...actually, somewhat more on topic. You want a laptop that's a real PITA to get into? Try the HP Compaq tc4200 and tc4400. Mom's had both. Ugly, slow, bothersome, nasty machines. There may be others with the same chassis and its fatal flaw... I dunno. I hope not!

They wouldn't be so bad if they weren't "convertibles" as I call them -- they have a single doofy swivel hinge thing for the lid that lets them become a nasty bulky tablet instead of a nasty bulky laptop. The problem isn't the hinge itself, per se -- but rather in its implementation and how the whole thing goes together. The WiFi card and half of the RAM is under the keyboard, and to get under that keyboard, you have to pull up the power button bezel...

...which inevitably breaks in half right around that freaking hinge, because that's basically how it's made. There is no other way into the system as far as I've been able to figure out. You can't get the hinge out of the way till the bezel (and keyboard, IIRC) are out -- the connection for the LCD cable is under there somewhere. Forget it. You have to damage the freaking thing to get it open.

I just put electrical tape over the broken bezel to hold it together... but my god, a laptop where you have to literally break the casework to get into the dang thing, geez louise. (If you can't tell, I'm trying REALLY HARD not to swear here. I could paint this email bright blue with four-letter words on that particular chassis' point of idiocy, but I'm in polite company, so I'm trying to restrain myself.)

As Luke Skywalker said upon meeting the Millennium Falcon -- "What a piece of junk!" Alas, the Millennium Falcon is a far superior machine... and I say that as a Trekkie ;)

I guess the upshot is that it's not a "nurse, get my scalpel" iMac... ;)