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Retina MacBook 2016 Teardown

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  • Retina Macbook 2016 Repairability Score: 1 out of 10 (10 is the easiest to repair)

  • 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.

  • The processor, RAM, and flash memory are still soldered to the logic board.

  • The battery assembly remains entirely, and very solidly, glued into the lower case.

  • The Retina display is still a fused unit with no separate, protective glass. If the display needs replacing, it'll cost a pretty penny.

  • While it's no more repairable than last year's edition, it does benefit from sharing a lot of the same parts and repair procedures.

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