No, I did neither. Instead I decided to engage people on these forums in pointless arguments over semantics.
Yes, I need a laptop running OS X for my job. I need my job so I can make money. I need money so I can eat, put clothing on my back, and have shelter to live in. I need all of those things because without them, I risk my health and well-being. I need my health and well-being so that I may continue to live. I need to continue to live because otherwise, I die. I do not want to die, at least, not yet. Satisfied?
As for complaining, that's what this forum is for. Pro-tips that do nothing are out of place here and otherwise serve no function. Even if complaining serves no function, THAT'S WHAT THIS SITE IS FOR.
I'll buy the argument on safety for the retina MacBook Pro given all of the crap that I had to study in order to take and pass the "MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 Retina) Qualification Exam" (I work as an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician at an Apple Authorized Service Provider and in order for us to be able to service that machine, we needed to take and pass that exam, which is the only discrete exam required to service a specific product), but given that those same screws are featured on the MacBook Airs from Late 2010 and newer and given that said machine is much safer to service, I don't fully buy that argument. As for why they didn't incorporate those screws on the pre-retina Unibody design, Apple tends to make more subtle changes in internal designs from rev to rev, while the major changes tend to be done when a new design is unveiled. Bottom case design (and thusly, choice of screws) fell into the latter category of changes. Still though, whether it be for safety or for control, it's a poor design. Plain and simple. Compromises to function were made for form and as someone who values Apple for its form:function ratio, this is a bad move no matter what adjectives are used to describe it.
As for the second generation Mac mini, while it's easier to get at the RAM in this current design; it's arguably harder to get at the hard drive. It's still nowhere near as easily serviced as the non-retina MacBook Pros have been since the switch to Unibody, and for a desktop to be less repairable than a laptop, is plain stupid. That I won't attribute to control, but rather form over function. In the non-retina MacBook Pros today, form and function are given more of a fair share than any Mac, let alone name brand computer ever. In just about every other Mac, this is not the case, and really it ought to be.