MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown
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MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown
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#2Repairability score: 1 out of 10. No big surprise.
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#3They sure as hell sacrificed a lot of battery for those useless stereo speakers.
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#4I am surprised by few things after newest rMBP teardowns
- Battery takes less space, than I thought, just eyeballing it but it seems that in (classic)rMBP battery takes more volume percent-wise.
- Battery is smaller by ~10% than non touch bar model (49.2 Wh vs 54.5 Wh) and significantly smaller than the classic rmbps.
- Two fans, classics had 1.
- Touchbar has speakers speakers under palm rest, and not under grills, thus it has slits on the bottom whereas the non-touchbar has not.
- Visually speakers are bigger in the non touch bar version
- Touchbar has ssd soldered and non-touch bar - removable ssd
- Touchbar has more gaps and unused volume - mainly in battery area.
Maybe there will be major reconstruction inside rMBP13 next year? Just like 2012 vs 2013 rMBP13? 2012 model was a mess (by Apple standards) inside.
Like the comment in iFixit, maybe rMBP13 was not designed for touchbar in the first place? It was decided later to make it?
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#5They sure as hell sacrificed a lot of battery for those useless stereo speakers.
They might be useless for you, but some people use them. This design decision might be coherent with their main target audience.
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#6I am surprised by few things after newest rMBP teardowns - Battery takes less space, than I thought, just eyeballing it but it seems that in (classic)rMBP battery takes more volume percent-wise. - Battery is smaller by ~10% than non touch bar model (49.2 Wh vs 54.5 Wh) and significantly smaller than the classic rmbps. - Two fans, classics had 1. - Touchbar has speakers speakers under palm rest, and not under grills,…
Now we need a someone to drop it in an aquarium and collect the bubbles to show just how much air is in that device.
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#7They sure as hell sacrificed a lot of battery for those useless stereo speakers.
They might be useless for you, but some people use them. This design decision might be coherent with their main target audience.
That's always a bit double. At one point I appreciate they try to improve the sound (and maybe succeed? didn't hear the last model yet), on the other hand I loathe the marketing 'best sound ever'-like phrases and hope not too many people fall for it, as it is in fact physically impossible to get anywhere near proper source reproduction whith such small speakers placed behind a cover. Then again, as you say target audience might not care about that.
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#8Mods: there's a wonky "smart quote" in the title, that would be great to fix.
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#9I would have preferred an iphone dock where the touchpad resides, just replace the supplied touch pad with your iphone and you get and additional screen.
but they gave us this useless touch screen.
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#10I told you SSD will be permanently soldered to the PCB, received downvotes in return :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826005
Apple finally decided with this round of macbooks to shift from producing laptops into content consumption appliances like iPhone. Next step of this internal plan involves processors.