

“It's not like them to leave big air gaps in their newest, sleekest designs.”

“This allowed Apple's designers to cleverly tuck the SSD away underneath the trackpad assembly,” iFixit adds.Ī very un-Apple-like move, there’s an empty space next to the SSD, iFixit notes. There’s six of them, and it’s the result of shrinking down the form factor from 15 inches to 13 inches, says the company. Moving forward, iFixit notes a striking layout change – the rearranged battery cells. No one really knows why the material was included, though. Upon unscrewing the chassis, the techies found a small piece of steel-wool-like metal on top of two of the speaker screws, issuing three hypotheses: grounding noise reduction and tamper-evident seals. The latest analysis from iFixit looks at the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. A new teardown from repair shop iFixit reveals that Apple has no problem sacrificing repairability for the sake of design, and perhaps automated assembly of its popular computers.
