we're only a few weeks into the new year
and you'd think everyone would be
talking about the Los Angeles Raiders
win at the Super Bowl on Sunday but
instead everyone's talking about that
rad McIntosh commercial that aired in
the third quarter you know see why 1984
won't be like 1984 fiction of course we
had to see what makes this awesome piece
of tech tick so we're gonna take it
apart should think of a cool name for
that taking it down
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hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we are so excited to be inside the
much-anticipated personal computer with
graphical user interface the Macintosh
128k no more typing in commands it's
like we jumped into the future like the
year 2000 or something this display is a
beautiful black-and-white 9 inch CRT
with a resolution of 512 by 342 it has a
three and a half inch floppy disk drive
and a tubular keyboard and mouse the
most impressive part of this Macintosh
is the superfast eight megahertz
processor to get inside we located two
hidden t15 screws and slid the machine
from the rear case unfactored of the
groundbreaking team who designed the
Macintosh are inside the rear case if
your monitor is not your liking maybe
you need to fix the brightness or the
size you're gonna have to get all the
way inside the case and adjust the dials
with a key with a few turns of our
Phillips driver we're able to get a
closer look at the 60 watt power supply
60 watts for this whole computer that's
totally radical and now we turn our
attention to the logic board which is
concealed in this nifty tray on the
board you can see the Motorola 8
megahertz microprocessor as well as a
Fairchild Semiconductor 74 LS three nine
three video counter as for the RAM Apple
plays 16 of microns 42 64 64 K RAM chips
now on to the keyboard and mouse this
keyboard was easy enough to get into we
just removed a
you screws and voila if you're opening
your keyboard though it's probably
because you need to fix a button and I'm
here to tell you that it won't be that
easy because all the buttons aren't
individually soldered onto the board the
mouse is relatively simple the ease of
this point and click device is due to
the rubber ball inside its cage we've
come to the end of our take apart which
means it's time to talk repairability
and I fix it it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we take apart a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the Macintosh 128k got a
7 out of 10 and here's why on the upside
once you're inside it's simple and
straightforward to replace any of the
main components the floppy drive power
supply logic board or CRT display it
also has a user replaceable clock
battery and no adhesive anywhere but on
the downside the case is fairly
difficult to open with deeply recessed
screws and a tight panel fit and finally
there's some dangerous high voltage on
both the power supply and the CRT that
make repair potentially hazardous and
that's our tear apart
we took the Macintosh all the way down
to its bones oh we got it tear down we
should call it a teardown tune in next
time when we discuss the possibilities
of this so-called cyber space is it a
possibility or just another sci-fi
fantasy and if it does end up a reality
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something George Lucas came up with I
tell you what though Mark Hamill is
going to be huge
after these Star Wars trilogies big star
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