The guys at ifixit have posted a photo guide to disassembling the new unibody MacBook Pro.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/Mac/MacBook-Pro-Unibody
It looks like it should be fairly easy to work on, although this could be an issue:
Quote:
"While the manufacturing of the case is sexy, our sources say that Apple is treating this as a single replaceable part. This means that if you break a key on the keyboard, you'll have to replace the entire upper case. That could get very expensive."
They did manage to get the keyboard out though, but it took them a while.
On the Thinkpad's the kids use where I work, we fix/replace keys and keyboards on a regular basis (we replaced 22 keyboards last week), so I guess we won't be switching to these any time soon.
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Those deconstruction photos they do are amazing. They never show photos of them putting it all back together again though for some reason!
Can you replace the keys on the current MacBooks? <fan boy>Maybe they're better made than the StinkPad and don't need replacing!</fan boy>
What do people think about the lack of FireWire? It would be only minorly inconvenient for me I think as I'd have to scrabble around to find the USB cables that came with the external hard drives and other bits and pieces I use FW for, but all hell has broken loose about it elsewhere on the interwebz.
Think I'm going to give this iteration a miss and get the next one. They look pretty good, but my trusty white MacBook is still going strong and I've no real justification to replace it just yet,
They never talk about the "extra pieces" either... Whenever I take something apart there always seem to be extra pieces...
I was looking at their G3 iBook stuff, I have a 12" G3 iBook that I wouldn't mind dropping a bigger HD and a DVD drive into, but there are so many screws and bits of tape to pull out and remember that I'd be sure to have "extra pieces" when I was done.
Anyone have a decently priced Powerbook?
Also, I'm not sure why Firewire hasn't become more popular. Firewire 800 always sounded like a good idea to me, while Firewire 400 was comparable to USB2.0 ... If you can get so much more speed out of Firewire 800, why don't we see more of it? People are getting more and more data that needs to be transfered and USB3.0 is taking far too long to come about...
I was looking at their G3 iBook stuff, I have a 12" G3 iBook that I wouldn't mind dropping a bigger HD and a DVD drive into, but there are so many screws and bits of tape to pull out and remember that I'd be sure to have "extra pieces" when I was done.
Anyone have a decently priced Powerbook?
Also, I'm not sure why Firewire hasn't become more popular. Firewire 800 always sounded like a good idea to me, while Firewire 400 was comparable to USB2.0 ... If you can get so much more speed out of Firewire 800, why don't we see more of it? People are getting more and more data that needs to be transfered and USB3.0 is taking far too long to come about...
No "target disk mode" is a deal killer for me. I was going to upgrade a family member to the alu macbook but if their idea of migration assistant is network only they can forget having me as a customer. I have saved a dozen non-booting powerbooks by putting them in TDM and using the "setup assistant" or now "migration assistant" to move the user's home directory and network preferences in a single click. I cant describe how much of a CF no TDM is.
@Herne - true - it's the same principal as self assembly IKEA furniture - there's always a piece left over at the end!
@Eric - I hadn't thought of that. I know the current setup doesn't support target disc mode through USB - is there a technical reason for that or is it just that Apple thought FW was the future at one stage before their about-turn?
@tom
I cant think of why they neglected USB but a gigE link would be faster as USB controllers waste the CPU.
Unless apple makes network boot servers the new standard to migrate users off busted devices I see a big hole in their enterprise play. I know they try to support migration assistant from a time machine volume. Maybe that's the plan? Forget firewire, force every user to get a time capsule?
They played up enterprise for iphone and even launched an enterprise sales group, which gives discounts, then they take away my most important tool.
doh! I should have gone to those leopard server seminars!
With external HDs getting up above 1TB, I can't see why more of them won't be IEEE enabled.
When I'm saving 250 Meg Photoshop files over the network at work it only takes seconds, if I had to save them to a 1TB external, I'd be getting more gray hairs just waiting... and 2TB drives are not far away.
Have you seen the price of external drives these days? Man...
When I'm saving 250 Meg Photoshop files over the network at work it only takes seconds, if I had to save them to a 1TB external, I'd be getting more gray hairs just waiting... and 2TB drives are not far away.
Have you seen the price of external drives these days? Man...
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