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MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2012 Teardown

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  • MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Repairability: 2 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)

  • There appears to be enough space to fit a regular 5 mm or 7 mm 2.5" laptop drive, but a custom cable will need to be developed.

  • The battery is still glued into the laptop's top case, but it's slightly less difficult to remove compared to the 15" model.

  • Proprietary pentalobe screws prevent you from gaining access to anything inside.

  • The RAM is surface-mount soldered to the logic board, so no upgrade is possible. It will forever have 8 GB of RAM.

  • The display assembly is almost impossible to take apart. If anything ever fails inside the display, you'll need to replace the display as a whole.

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