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Retina MacBook 2015 Teardown

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  • Wait, this is a notebook, right? Where's the battery connector?

  • At a loss, we play with this little yellow button for a bit. Boop.

  • We've seen something like this before—in the iPad, Apple loves to hide the battery connector under the logic board. This is the first time we've seen it in a laptop, so it looks like it's time for...

  • Our newly-minted battery isolation pick turns out to be just the trick we need to keep the juice away from the logic board's spring contacts.

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