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  • With that, we can finally remove the logic board from its home.

  • To strip down the logic board further, we remove the miniscule heat sink from its cozy position on the Core i5 processor.

  • Surprisingly, there isn't too much excess thermal paste between the processor and the heat sink. This is a nice departure from Apple's recent trend of assaulting processors with gobs of thermal paste.

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