On the site of the Mac+iPod do-it-yourself company iFixit we find a nice report about what's inside the MacBook Air. Some highlights:
We were relieved to discover the MacBook Air ships in more than just a manila envelope.
Look! We found the battery.
The hard drive sits beneath the USB, micro-DVI, and audio ribbon cables.
The RF module, in all its blue glory. We spliced together two photos, so this image shows the front and back of the PCB.
The heat sink is made of very thin aluminum and looks totally different from anything we've seen in a Mac before.
We found Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip right beneath the heat sink (no surprises there). A temperature sensor sits on an external board glued between the CPU and graphics chips. A high-resolution image (632K) is available here.
We found a Broadcom BCM5974 touch screen controller chip on the interconnect board.
The display assembly is attached to the case with 19 small screws:
We're left with 88 screws and lots of parts. It's hard to believe everything here weighs in at only three pounds. A high-resolution image (568K) is available here.
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Related:
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