‘iFixit’ disassembles MacBook Air, posts break-down photos
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 1, 2008 at 2:57am
The iFixit has disassembled the MacBook Air. High resolution disassembly photos and component information are now online.
The first look contains high resolution photos of the MacBook Air’s internals, including Intel’s custom low-footprint Core 2 Duo processor. This guide adds another installment to iFixit’s do-it-yourself laptop repair manuals, the Fixit Guide Series. Fixit Guides are available for Apple laptops, iPods, and the iPhone. All Guides are available free">http://www.iFixit.com/Guide">free online.
The Air’s hard drive is an industry standard PATA 5mm 1.8-inch Samsung drive. The MacBook Air only has 5 mm of vertical space allocated for the hard drive, so it won’t fit the 160GB 8mm drive shipping in the iPod classic.
Although Apple claims the battery isn’t user-serviceable, the first look shows that battery installation is surprisingly easy, requiring only a Phillips screwdriver. The iFixit gang say they anticipate that the demand for user-replacement of MacBook Air batteries will be significant.
iFixit also discovered that Apple’s new trackpad technology uses the same controller chip used in the in the iPhone and iPod touch. There’s a Broadcom BCM5974 touch controller chip on the trackpad interconnect board. This may give Apple more options when adding touch functionality via software updates, just as they have done with the iPhone.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
