Very unlikely - from a support perspective, mainly. On the base unit the cost of the drive is small when compared to the cost of manufacture of the rest of the unit: dropping the drive altogether wouldn't lower the cost a lot and would then mean we'd have nightmares with people partitioning disks, destroying the unit by dropping things into it, etc etc.

Laptop manufacturers aren't happy to let buyers open their units for the reason that they're tightly packed and often a pain to swap parts in - and the same goes for the empeg.

Hugo