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Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

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Re: Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

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Post by dang »

lisper wrote: post #2

The submission to the original iFixit article only has five points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384791 Something is badly broken here, and it's not just the fact that you can't repair the new MacBook. :-(

Too many submissions appear on HN for randomness not to be a leading if not dominant factor. That's why a small number of reposts are ok, if the article is good for HN and hasn't had attention yet. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

We changed the URL on this submission from http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/04/surprise-ifixit-says-yo... to the article it points to, as we normally do.

Re: Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

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Post by platinum1 »

markild wrote: post #4

"NXP 11U37 microcontroller; 128 kB flash, 10kB SRAM" [1] Does anyone have an idea of what this is used for? [1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...

Based on location and size, I'm guessing it's used for the USB type C port - specifically implementing the CC sideband communication protocol.

Re: Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

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Post by ksec »

doe88 wrote: post #5

Seems that the major unknown is about the SSD controller [1] to know if it uses a custom controller or not. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9173/more-pictures-of-2015-mac...

Look at the size of it compared to the Intel CPU. That thing is huge. What are the usual node size SSD controller manufactured in? 28/40nm
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