Make it easier to change the hard drive

Apple,
Please. Please. Please.
Make it easier to change the hard disk in future iMac's. They break. They need to be upgraded.
My HD was dying. So I called the local Apple store. My iMac is under warranty. But they said it would take several days (with no specificity) to fix.
I couldn't be without a computer for hours, never mind an undefined number of days. So I replaced the HD myself. It took 45 minutes. Not counting a trip to the hardware store to buy the right torx set.
Is it really to much to ask to put the drive in a bay? SATA disk drives are ridiculously easy to replace if one has access to it. On a PC it takes 5 - 10 minutes. Even on a MacBook pro it takes less than 10 minutes.
MAKE THESE THINGS SERVICEABLE. There is no mystery in changing a disk drive. That is so 1980.

Hi Alan
This is a user to user forum and while your wishes are falling on our open ears here, they are not getting to Apples. To hopefully do that, go to > http://www.apple.com/feedback/imac.html
Dennis

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