Bill, it is a great disappointment that no one appears to post on your interesting tear-down series. Responses to blogs on Techrepublic appear increasingly generated by fan boy-ism, rather than in offering constructive criticism & discussion of the engineering hardware solutions that you concisely illustrate. My response above, is an appreciation of your work & attempt to stimulate interest of other posters, sorry to have failed here. Perhaps I should have compared Samsungs Notes Display panel being permanently fastened into a front assembly unit, is not that different in principle to Apple's superior method of bonding the Retina panel into the lid of the Mac Book Pro & of equal limited Eco Unfriendliness as previously stated above, (As long as Apple's exchange costs are reasonable!)
Lastly & for the record, I do admit that I too contribute in the product polarized areas & do enjoy the fun of the ensuing lively debate, but only when the blog clearly leads to a discussion there.
Does one really have to deride certain companies in order to attract interest here?