iFixIt tears down the new MacBook →

A couple of thoughts:

  1. While this MacBook may have very few parts compared to the machines of yesteryear, this computer looks trickier to work on than even other late-model notebooks. Adhesive and proprietary pentalobe screws abound.
  2. Putting the battery and logic board on the bottom case and the keyboard on the top case is a change from recent machines. The unibody architecture uses a thin bottom case as just a cover, with all the guts screwed into the top case. Clearly that didn’t work in a design this thin, but it isn’t a completely new concept. Pre-unibody MacBook Pros (and aluminum PowerBooks) and MacBooks had the components resting in the bottom case, but on those machines, the top case come off to access them. The MacBook is a hybrid of these construction methods.
  3. Even though I disliked they keyboard when I tried it, and have no need for a machine in this class, I still kinda want a MacBook.