![]() The design may well be comprised of “ highly recyclable aluminum and glass” - but my friends in the electronics recycling industry tell me they have no way of recycling aluminum that has glass glued to it like Apple did with both this machine and the recent iPad. And the battery is glued to the case, requiring customers to mail their laptop to Apple every so often for a $200 replacement. The RAM is now soldered to the logic board - making future memory upgrades impossible. ![]() The Retina MacBook is the least repairable laptop we’ve ever taken apart: Unlike the previous model, the display is fused to the glass, which means replacing the LCD requires buying an expensive display assembly. Launched out of his Cal Poly college dorm room in 2003, iFixit has now empowered upwards of 15 million people to repair their broken stuff.||| |||Kyle Wiens is the co-founder and CEO of iFixit, an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for their open source repair manuals and product teardowns. We disassemble and analyze new electronic gizmos so you don’t have to - kind of like an internet version of Consumer Reports. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides. This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display - and the tech world is buzzing.
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