For my griping - everything BUT the motherboard is designed for easy swap-out. Why can't they make the motherboard just as easy?
The simplest thing to do would be to ship replacement motherboards pre-installed on the system tray. Now that the CableBundleOfDeath is replaced by that nice little edge connector, it'd just be an issue of pulling the whole tray out, replacing the easy stuff (memory, pci cards) and slide the new tray in. Smooooth.
In re: olympics; I have to disagree w/ Todd's rules requiring no pre-disassembly -- that way knowledge is rewarded as well. In the 5 minutes prior to the bell, you're allowed onto the filer's console to determine things like VIF interfaces to start disconecting now, idle tape drives that can go, etc..
..kg.. 4PCI/Cluster League