There seems to be a *huge* variety of the serviceability of laptops these days... I had a couple recently where the CPU cooler was choked with dust and the fan running poorly. On one (IIRC a stinkpad) you had the have the whole thing to bits in order to get at the right side of the motherboard. On the other (a dell I think) you could take a flap off the bottom, release 4 screws and the whole cooler assembly and heatpipes etc just lifted clear.
batteries
It's annoying, after manufacturing commercial equipment that was designed to be serviced. A philips screwdriver was all you needed to open the case and remove any module to repair locally or return to the factory. I talked a Ph.D. in Antarctica through a repair, over the internet in 2000. It was a telemetry receiver needed to continue their experiments. They damaged it in shipment, and it would have taken a year to return it to the factory for us to repair it, then send it back on their next supply ship.
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