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    Apple MacBook Air Teardown: iFixit Goes Where Apple Prefers You Dont

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    Michelle Maisto
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    October 22, 2010
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      1Apple MacBook Air Teardown: iFixit Goes Where Apple Prefers You Dont

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      by Michelle Maisto

      2Apple MacBook Air

      2

      Apple introduced new 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks Oct. 20. They offer a choice of 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 64GB or 128GB of flash storage and 2GB or 4GB or DDR3 SDRAM. Go for 4GB, advises iFixit, as the notebooks cant be upgraded.

      3Solid-State Drive

      3

      A major difference in the new MacBook Air is that Apple replaced the hard drive with a solid-state drive comprised of six chips-four 16GB flash chips from Toshiba, a Toshiba SSD controller and a Micron DDR DRAM cache chip.

      4Battery

      4

      The inside of the MacBook Air is dominated by the battery, which comprises six individual lithium-polymer cells. The 11-inch Air is said to offer five hours of battery life, while the 13-inch model gets seven. Both feature 30 days of standby time.

      5MacBook Air

      5

      The 11.6-inch display on the smaller MacBook Air features a resolution of 1,366 by 768 pixels. iFixit found that Apple also substantially enhanced the rigidity of the display assembly.

      6Apple MacBook Pro

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      According to iFixit, the WiFi/Bluetooth chip in the new MacBook Air is the same as the use used in its line of MacBook Pro notebooks, pictured here.

      7Apple MacBook Air

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      Apples tidy little package all undone is pictured here. In conclusion, iFixit reported, We wish Apple would stop intentionally preventing users from upgrading and repairing their devices.

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