we were all tuned into Monday's Apple
event hoping to hear more news on a
certain trendy wearable along with
plenty of info on that Apple also
revealed a brand new redesigned MacBook
and gave a bump to the MacBook Air and
MacBook Pro lines well today we're
taking a look at one of those bumps the
brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro with
Retina display
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the brand new 13-inch
MacBook Pro with Retina display on the
surface there's not much difference in
this revision this MacBook Pro still
measures in at one point eight
centimeters high 31 point 4 centimeters
wide and 21.9 centimeters deep and if
you're curious about the weight this pro
weighs in at one point five eight
kilograms one thing that has changed is
the addition of the brand new force
touch trackpad I'm sure we'll be seeing
more of that later on
all the ports are gonna look familiar if
you've seen last year's version this
MacBook Pro ships with the usual MagSafe
port two thunderbolt ports a USB 3 port
and headphone jack on one side and on
the other side you'll see the SDXC card
slot the HDMI port and a second USB 3
port there were no surprises getting
into our macbook pro we remove the same
pentalobe screws we've seen in earlier
versions and with the crack of the
bottom case we're in right off the bat
we notice some subtle changes
first up the trackpad cable has been
rerouted over the battery we also see
that Apple decided that adhesive and
screws went a bit overboard when
securing the battery to the frame so
they stuck to the glue and got rid of
the screws that sounds like Apple this
of course means we need to enlist the
help of our eye opener and scraping
cards to get the sticky battery out of
the frame before we could get the
battery out we needed to maneuver the
trackpad control board out of the way we
weren't able to fully remove it as Apple
has decided to solder the cables to the
board why this couldn't have been a
standard ZIF connector is currently a
mystery to us with the trackpad control
board out of the way we were able to get
the battery out of the MacBook Pro this
is a seventy four point nine watt hour
six thousand 559 milliamp hour lithium
polymer battery that Apple claims will
you up to 10 hours of wireless web time
next up we set our sights on the brand
new force touch trackpad which has its
own board that's home to this touch
digitizer chip made by Broadcom and a
magical taptic engine that provides
haptic feedback for the force touch the
trackpad itself is held in place by 10
screws which were easy enough to remove
and then we just popped it out to get a
closer look at this revolutionary pad
and by revolutionary I mean for 1824 the
taptic engine is made of wire coils
around a magnetic core the electromagnet
in the force touch trackpad is used to
create the tactile or vibration feedback
after separating the trackpad from the
bracket we can see the metal bar that
presses against the vibrating feedback
motor and the four tabs that might have
strain gauges on them this is one
complicated trackpad now for something
easy the SSD this SSD only requires the
removal of one screw and it pops right
out this is a pcie 3.0 board with 128
gigabytes of flash storage and now onto
the logic board which after a few screws
were removed lifts right out on board
the board you'll find the Intel dual
core i5 processor with Intel iris
graphics 6100 8 gigabytes of sk hynix
made LP ddr3 RAM which is soldered to
the logic board and the Intel made
Thunderbolt 2 controller lastly all we
have left is the 13.3 inch 2560 by 1600
Retina display that has a pixel density
of 227 pixels per inch we've come to the
end of our teardown which means it's
time to talk repairability and iFixit
it's our mission to teach people how to
repair everything so we give every
gadget we tear down a repair ability
score between one and ten ten being the
easiest to repair and one being the most
difficult the early 2015 13 inch MacBook
Pro with Retina display scored a 1 out
of 10
and here's why proprietary pentalobe
screws continue to make opening the
device unnecessarily difficult the
battery assembly is still entirely glued
to the case and still covers the screws
holding the trackpad in place making it
impossible to replace the trackpad
without first removing the battery the
Retina display is a fused unit with no
protective glass if anything ever fails
inside the display the entire assembly
will need to be replaced the RAM is
soldered to the logic board following
the lead of the MacBook Air pay for the
upgrade now or be stuck with eight
gigabytes there's no chance for an
upgrade and finally the proprietary PCIe
SSD still isn't a standard Drive cross
your fingers for future compatible
drives for now you're stuck with the one
you've got and that's our teardown for
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