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A disassembled 13-inch MacBook Air and a 15-inch MacBook Air [iFixit/YouTube]
Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is just like its 13-inch counterpart in additional than identify, with a teardown exhibiting there to be comparatively few inner variations between the fashions.
The teardown by iFixit revealed to YouTube on Friday took aside the 15-inch MacBook Air, and revealed it’s taken aside the identical means because the 13-inch mannequin, utilizing equivalent screws and clips. After taking off the preliminary layer, the {hardware} is visibly just like the 13-inch, besides the 15-inch has a barely totally different speaker setup, because the bigger mannequin has extra.
Disassembly is a “depressing” expertise, with the parts assembled and overlapping one another in a “maze” that makes battery removing and taking out the logic board a tricky problem. That logic board additionally has “just about the identical stuff” because the 13-inch model.
As a part of the teardown, Apple’s continued reliance of adhesive strips to carry the battery in place is regarded as pointless, given the sheer quantity of parts that need to be eliminated beforehand that additionally holds the cells in place.
That battery is a 66.5Wh development utilizing a big cell part flanked by 4 smaller cells. It’s believed this association is used to permit the fast-charging operate to work at full capability, since a number of cells are charged concurrently.
The 15-inch MacBook Air scores a 3 out of 10 on iFixit’s “repairability” scale. Apple can earn one other two factors for components and guide provide, however as a result of its “unreliable launch schedule,” the factors are being withheld from the rating for the second.
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