What were they thinking?
I just disassembled Roo's Mac iBook G3 600MHz to install a new hard drive. I do not use the word "disassemble" lightly. The path to the heart of this iBook is fraught with many screws. It felt like 600, though it was probably more like 70.
It is interesting to note that its nearly impossible to reassemble something of this complexity without overlooking a few screws, or installing a few too early that should have been held out for later. In this case, the number of screws left over is approximately equal to the total number of screws in most laptops.
They definitely weren't doing any good anyway. They were just deadweight. And so I can feel proud that I have not only replaced a dead 30GB hard drive with a roomy 90GB hard drive, but also streamlined the entire machine.
This guide made it possible.