hey guys I'm going to learn with iFixit
and I'm here with Scott he's one of our
teardown engineers and he was lucky
enough to take apart the new MacBook Pro
13 inch with the touch bar and touch ID
tell us a little bit about that hi Gwen
yeah it was a it was a fun day we got to
tear apart this new machine the first
thing that we were kind of excited about
was the touch bar we also had the cool
addition of the touch ID that's
supposedly linked to the t1 chip on the
logic board we were expecting to find a
computer that was similar to the other
13-inch with the function keys but once
we cracked into this thing completely
different tell us a little bit about
what the touch ID does just in case
someone doesn't know so touch ID is not
necessarily a new technology we've seen
it on iPhone since the 5s it essentially
is a security feature that looks at
someone's fingerprint and is able to let
you into your machine quicker so it's a
cool security feature that is now
featured on the MacBook Pros which is
exciting there's gonna be some Apple pay
functionality with that as well which
we're excited to see more of okay and
brand-new technology the touch bar the
touch bar the touch bar is yeah it's
exciting what it essentially is is think
of just a touch screen that we're seeing
on other tablets or other computers but
it's shrunk down and added on to the
keyboard to expand keyboard
functionality so it's extending what you
can do in apps but it's also
customizable yeah that's the ideas
instead of only having a set of function
keys you can have whatever key you want
and so I mean emojis or you know just
something quick to make your life easier
so we hear it I fix it of course care
most about repair ability and so what
was it like to get to the touch bar and
the touch ID what did you have to take
off first and how easy was it yeah it
was extremely difficult yeah this this
MacBook Pro scored a 1 out of 10 on a
repairability scale a meaning that it is
very difficult to work on so to start
well the touch ID was a little bit
easier to get to to the touch bar for
new features that are exciting but we
still needed to take off the logic port
and with that comes a lot of screws and
a lot of effort other other big things
that also need to be said about this
computer is that a lot of features that
people like such as removable SSD is no
longer the case it doesn't exist on here
that this SSD is soldered onto the logic
board to get to the touch bar it was
like the touch ID the logic board had to
come out but then we also needed to
apply a lot of heat and start to use
some prying so trying to get to it we
pried off the glass digitizer and
started to chip the o LED so it was not
a successful removal so it was extremely
difficult to get to but once we got it
off what did we find out about this new
technology okay so starting with the
touch ID because that's what we found
first in our teardown it's still pretty
familiar to what we've seen in the 5s in
that you'd Scot what we're thinking is
maybe like a sapphire crystal cover
which is not going to scratch which
would render touch ID useless on the
flip side there is a mechanical button
that if you you can see here that if if
you're ready to start your laptop it's
going to be a familiar feeling that
you're used to using with any other
power button and then the other
interesting thing about this touch ID is
that it's been set to connect to the t1
chip on the logic board which is new to
this machine and it is right here so
yeah and here we have the t1 what we
were supposing is the t1 chip which is a
pretty interesting little chip here
there's a lot of rumors kind of
circulating around what it does there's
a rumor that it's like a system on a
chip and that it can actually has its
own kind of processing power that will
stand independent of backo exo's
yeah but we can't really confirm that
looking at the touch bar so we pull off
the glass digitizer panel there are
several chips just by the nature the
technology it needs to have and then
there's also a chip on the LED on the
laptop which also is going to be used to
kind of help process that data that's
coming to and
touch bar and then one of the questions
that we're kind of wondering is you know
is how is touch bar control on the logic
board how does it communicate with the
logic board there's rumors that it
stands alone or and so it's kind of an
interesting thing yes hard for us to say
with the teardown though I'm so amazed
at some of these differences that we've
seen from the 13-inch that we tore down
last week there are brand new
technologies but they're completely
different that's awesome and we should
be seeing the 15-inch hopefully in the
next couple of weeks yeah I get a chance
to compare that and see how it fits into
the family great and there may be
something different in there so be sure
to check out this teardown and that one
coming soon at ifixit.com