It's become an accepted norm and an expected function of any "workstation" machine with an easy access panel or door to be user upgradable based on CPU socket (which is can be argued is normal to derive from the CPU it's advertised to ship with) the memory sockets, the expansion slot types, drive bays, etc..
Arguable. For much of corporate america, "workstation" still means Sun, etc., which has no history of such things.
When a company markets a machine in this class they are playing to those expectation. Then thereafter not delivering on it, not stating clearly any exceptions, and purposely making it impossible difficult or forcing proprietary alternatives becomes a kind of bait and switch. I guess if I had a million or so I could win such an argument against Apple. Anyway i did say it was borderline and not blatant. The other two are similar trains of thought.
Regardless of these practices determinate legality it remains affront to me personally and flies in the face of being fair or getting a fair shake from a fair company.
Does that make more sense?
No.
First, they don't "purposely mak[e] it impossible or difficult." They made the decision based on engineering, not based on trying to prevent you from swapping CPUs. You may as well argue that Intel is being illegal whenever they come out with a new socket. I assure you, they do it for technical reasons, not to screw you.
Second, you have failed to state a legal cause of action. They've broken no contract (where does Apple promise that you can swap the cpu?) They've violated no warranty, express or implied. They've committed no fraud.
They have no affirmative duty to tell you all the things that you cannot do the machine. Despite your assertion, upgrading CPUs in workstations is incredibly rare. Even though it can nowadays be done, it is ACTUALLY done almost never percentagewise.
You're funny - you ignore what apple actually explicitly tells you (you may not use OS X on a non-mac - see other thread) - and yet you derive implausible meaning from what apple doesn't tell you (they don't say "it's hard to rip the guts out and replace it with other guts" so therefore it should be easy).
But, just so you don't actually buy an Apple and have it fail to live up to promises Apple hasn't actually made, here are some other things Apple should have told you:
1) the mac pro is not a tasty salad dressing
2) the mac pro is not waterproof
3) the mac pro is not available in five tasty flavors
4) the mac pro is not convertible into a giant transforming robot
5) some assembly required
