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MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2012 Teardown

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  • At first we thought we found some kitten fuzz, but it turns out that Apple glued in a small piece of steel-wool-like metal on top of two of the speaker screws.

  • Why, you ask?

  • We don't know, but we have some hypotheses:

  • Grounding?

  • Noise reduction?

  • Tamper-evident seals?

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