Why is removing a laptop drive not a simpler process?

[FlorbFnarb 537]

I mean, it's pretty easy now - just undo one or two screws holding the cover on, remove a couple screws holding the drive mount in place, then slide it out.  The actual connection is not difficult to remove at all, just slides into place.

So why don't they do away with the screws altogether?  The battery isn't screwed into place on either of my laptops; it has two spring latches and just swings out.  If they made laptop drives accessible from the side with just a latch, you could just slide them out without a screwdriver.

Maybe I'm shamefully lazy, it just seems like they could have done something besides screws.

[Tedster59 989]

you'd hate having my laptop, you have to remove the entire bottom panel and the optical drive to get to the HDD.

[LemmingRush 192]

Id imagine they do it so retards (most people) have to buy a new laptop every time they run out of HardDrive space

[Luna 3,443]

Because they dont expect people to replace drives on something thats not really supposed to be worked on...

[FlorbFnarb 537]

34 minutes ago, Tedster59 said:

you'd hate having my laptop, you have to remove the entire bottom panel and the optical drive to get to the HDD.

That would suck.

[BlackAdder 1,390]

On many laptops HDD is few screws away (like 2 for plastic, and 2/4 for drive itself), IMHO that is one of the easiest parts to replace. 

 

Sometime is tuck under (some Dell notebooks, some netbooks...) but those are rare examples.

 

 

[FlorbFnarb 537]

4 minutes ago, BlackAdder said:

On many laptops HDD is few screws away (like 2 for plastic, and 2/4 for drive itself), IMHO that is one of the easiest parts to replace. 

 

Sometime is tuck under (some Dell notebooks, some netbooks...) but those are rare examples.

 

 

Sure, it's not too hard on mine.  It just seems like they could have go a small step further and made the things quickly swappable.  Pop one out, pop another in.

[BlackAdder 1,390]

20 minutes ago, FlorbFnarb said:

Sure, it's not too hard on mine.  It just seems like they could have go a small step further and made the things quickly swappable.  Pop one out, pop another in.

 

If easier means few screw less yes. But they left it that way because of cost and you don't want loose HDD. 

[An_Arty_Player_Hits_You 473]

 

 

That's how you swap out my laptops HDD -_-

 

that new dell laptop with a 980m gpu though, is only like 1 or 3 screws to open up entire bottom panel which is like... access to everything

found it, this one, also linus back at it again with the clickbait titles

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[BlackAdder 1,390]

3 minutes ago, An_Arty_Player_Hits_You said:

 

 

That's how you swap out my laptops HDD -_-

 

that new dell laptop with a 980m gpu though, is only like 1 or 3 screws to open up entire bottom panel which is like... access to everything

found it, this one, also linus back at it again with the clickbait titles

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But that's one of many. I liked old Asus laptops just for that. Plain simple and you can access everything.