This sounds like something I would do, in fact I once went in to an Apple store and asked if there was any hope for my beige G3. The first ‘Genius’ looked at me blankly and called a coworker over to see if he knew what the heck I was talking about. What do you know, turns out my G3 doesnt have an upgrade path at all and should be retired ASAP. Good thing I didn’t tell them about the G4 CPU card that I had installed and the fact the web page that I was browsing at the Apple store was being served up by it. OS X might not run fast on it but it does run.
Anyway, this is an amusing photo of a guy that brought in his old SE asking the counter help at the Genius bar of his local Apple store about if he could upgrade it. I’m with the Engadget guy, I bet they said he could add a bit of memory and that’s about it.
I hope he doesn’t need any hardware service; Apple would tell him to get lost.
Still, good to see them make an effort. Now I just need to arrange to bring in my //c…