Macbook Pro 13" teardown

[ElPolloDiabl]

Some hardware Pr0n for you:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody/814/1

Take a look at how tiny the motherboard is. What talented engineering.

[motorollin]

That's impressive! From the size of the motherboard, it almost looks as though they are trying to get it to the same size as the Mac Mini motherboard so they can use the same board for the Minis and the MacBooks

[Daedalus]

That's not such a bad idea, if you can pull it off. Look at the Volkswagen / Audi / Seat / Skoda range - same engines across them all, and even higher specced versions are sometimes the same engine with different management firmware installed. Would be very impressive indeed though to share a mainboard between a laptop and a desktop machine!

[motorollin]

That's not such a bad idea, if you can pull it off. Look at the Volkswagen / Audi / Seat / Skoda range - same engines across them all, and even higher specced versions are sometimes the same engine with different management firmware installed. Would be very impressive indeed though to share a mainboard between a laptop and a desktop machine!

Exactly. They could use the same motherboard in the Mac Mini, iMac and MacBook. Their buying power would increase as they would be buying a larger quantity of the same parts. That means one of two things: more profit, which Apple tends to reinvest in new technology which is good for customers, or lower prices, which is obviously great for customers.

[quarkx]

Brings back memories..
I had a customer literally come in with her G3 Mac Book in pieces in a plastic shopping bag, fully disassembled one day and she had to have it up and running the next day. I am a PC tech and had never worked on Macs before, but though trail and error, (i treated it like a big jigsaw puzzle) got the whole thing back together and found out she was missing the power supply/sound board. She had told me when she dumped this bag off that the last tech told her she needed a new power supply, so she went and got one, not the board. LOL After i was done, she took it to the Apple repair center and they were impressed that I had done such a good job with no instructions. -She never got that board, she just bought a Mini-mac at that point.