The Performa 637CD sitting on the table in the next
room was a pain
to open, and getting the case off only gave me access to the metal
enclosures surrounding the guts of the machine (more screws,
sliding, etc).
Actually, other than some of the low-end models from the
mid-90's, and of course the early compact Mac's, most of the cases
have been pretty easy to get into. Examples are the 6100, all of
the G3/G4 minitowers, and even the Color Classic with it's slide-out
mainboard. The current tower cases are a dream to work in with the
way the mainboard drops down with the side panel. Of course, some of
the most horrid case designs were those like the 8500/9500 series
where you had to remove the whole mainboard from the machine to do
something as simple as a cache or RAM upgrade.
Jeff
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