When I recently replaced my cracked iPhone screen (replacement screen from iCracked.com), I decided to get a tool set that I could use not only for the phone but for modern uni-body laptops and tablets.
This convinced me that indeed, the phone revolution is now guiding not only the software but the hardware of future laptops:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/1
All the guts of the MBP look just like the guts of the iPhone. Even the battery tech is similar, SSDs used for storage, and RAM soldered in. Ditto new screw sets and so on.
iFixIt also ran a blog article for Wired on this trend:
.. with a finger pointed to "us" the consumer "voting" for this new approach. I doubt Apple is the only one listening so it will likely impact all of us.
So I recommend buying the iFixIt tools for your future computers, along with a magnifier of some sort. I bought
-- Owen
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