@scuse me, but Alpha Geeks

... not entirely true.

I modded my Mac Mini (early 2009 version) using the putty knife method. Stuffing it with a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Black 7200rpm drive and 4GB of DDR3 Ram. It now zips along very nicely and make an excellent compact database and web server that you can keep in your office draw. This upgrade cost me a little over £100. Less than half the price it would have cost me if purchased from Apple.

Like others here I would be very pissed of with Apple it they went out of their way to prevent this type simple modding though.