How are they great for fixing yourself? They&#x27;re specifically engineered to be completely unserviceable by a regular consumer.<p>Yes you <i>can</i> watch a Youtube video and figure out how to take them apart, Apple&#x27;s devices have to be serviced by someone after all, but a ton of money, thought, time, and effort go into designing methods and hardware for obscuring the typical consumer&#x27;s ability to dig into an Apple devices.<p>I&#x27;ve taken my Mac Mini apart multiple times, an impossible task without buying an iFixIt kit first. The reason I took the computer apart was to stuff a second hard drive into the machine. I had to remove every single component of the machine in order to access the hard drive. It was a huge pain in the ass just to add a second hard drive. Good luck doing that to a Macbook.<p>My Thinkpad features a single screw that lets me access the hard drive caddy. The product doesn&#x27;t suffer at all from providing this feature and it gives me the ability to upgrade my machine as I see fit.