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| [* black] Retina Macbook 2016 Repairability Score: ***1 out of 10*** (10 is the easiest to repair) | |
| + | [* yellow] While it's no more repairable than last year's edition, it does benefit from a sharing a lot of the same parts and repair procedures. |
| [* yellow] Those pesky tri-wing screws are gone, replaced with lovely standard Phillips screws—but tamper-evident hinge screws make you feel like a hoodlum for repairing your own machine. | |
| - | [* red] Proprietary pentalobe screws continue to make opening the device unnecessarily complicated, and this MacBook still has the tricky cable routing from last year. |
| - | [* red] The processor, RAM, and flash memory are soldered to the logic board. |
| + | [* red] The processor, RAM, and flash memory are still soldered to the logic board. |
| [* red] The battery assembly remains entirely, and very solidly, glued into the lower case. | |
| [* red] The Retina display is still a fused unit with no separate, protective glass. If the display needs replacing, it'll cost a pretty penny. |