Reddit mentions of SEM-12in1: i.Trek ExpressCard 12-in-1 Memory Card Reader/Writer

You're knee-deep in nit-pickery, but I'll continue arguing anyway... The bottom cover is removed with 10 "regular old Philips head screws", which opens up access to pretty much everything.

The battery is secured with Tri-wing screws which can also be found, for example, on the bottom of Nintendo game consoles. They're uncommon, so manufacturers put them places where they don't want average users opening easily. The battery is not designed to be user replaceable (but of course, is), just as Nintendo products are not user serviceable. By doing away with the molded plastic, electrical contacts, etc. around a typical laptop battery they saved some space, and the cost is that when I order a replacement battery I'll need to get a tri-wing screwdriver. Not a big deal unless I wanted to carry around a spare battery for swapping, which is not my use case, but if that's yours then clearly the unibody Macbook is not for you.

I'm not sure where the torx screws are, I'm pretty sure the hard drive is just philips screws (RAM is secured with the standard side clips). Torx T6 is the standard torx size for electronics (e.g. if you wanted to take apart a hard drive, they're all secured with T6 screws). They're less common than philips and flathead screws, again usually to make it difficult to the user (maybe that's my conspiracy theory) but also the screws apparently resist cam-out better than philips and flathead. I have a torx set and am pretty surprised you've never heard of it.

I have no idea what you're talking about with the fans. They work just as efficiently as any other laptop fans, and they aren't blocked by my legs whereas my last laptop blew out the bottom and sides so I had to position the laptop so that the vents weren't blocked by my legs. I see it as an improvement over the typical PC design. And your claims aren't backed by experience.

Here are some objective points about the Macbook compared to a PC laptop that you could have pointed out... Plus my opinions/experience about them.

• No home/end/pgup/pgdown keys - instead use cmd-left/right (or fn-left/right) for home/end and fn-up/down for pgup/pgdown. I use home and end all the time while typing/programming and cmd-left/right don't bother me at all. Also in OSX, alt+left/right function as ctrl+left/right in Windows/Linux, so you use your thumb instead of pinky which I find more comfortable. Same with Cmd+anything, which mostly replaces ctrl+stuff in Win/Lin (e.g. cmd+c is copy, etc.).
  
• No built-in monitor ports, you need to buy and carry around an adapter. I carry my VGA one everywhere, "just in case". This is becoming more standard in PC laptops too - e.g. Dell has moved to Mini Displayport and HDMI.
  
• 17" model doesn't have built-in SD card slot; I bought an Expresscard memory card reader (this one) that I leave in all the time, it's flush with the edge of my Macbook so it's no downside to me.
  
• No eSATA. If I needed it I would get an Expresscard for it. 15"/13" MBPs (with no expresscard slot) would be SOL, but most drives with eSATA also have USB option.
  
• No user-serviceable battery, mentioned above.
  
• No touchpad button - actually the whole touchpad is a button, which is completely awesome. Click with two fingers for right click. And OSX's smooth scrolling is AH-MAY-ZING. The touchpad is far superior to any PC touchpad I've used, ever. Night and day.
  
• No USB3. If any of my devices had USB3, maybe I'd be sad.