iFixit tears down 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, rates it two grumpy kittens for repaira

GSBot · October 25, 2012, 12:58pm

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/10/ifixit-13-inch-macbook-pro.png You know the drill (er, screwdriver): someone releases a shiny new gadget and the internet tears it apart, both figuratively and literally. iFixit did the latter like clockwork, getting its tools on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. As with its older sibling, the notebook didn’t do all that well on the repairability scale, scoring a two out of 10 – slightly better than its predecessor’s lowly one. Why so low? You can blame a glued battery, proprietary screws, soldered RAM and a display assembly that’s “almost impossible to take apart.” There are, however, plenty of pictures of a tiny kitten, which should help to ease the pain…
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