New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly'

CWmike writes "Apple's new MacBook Pro shows some build-quality problems that shouldn't be seen in a notebook that costs $1,800, a teardown expert said on Monday. iFixit.com found several signs of substandard assembly while disassembling a 15-in. MacBook Pro. Among them: A stripped screw near the subwoofer enclosure and an unlocked ZIF (zero insertion force) socket for the IR (infrared) sensor. '[These] should not be things found inside a completely unmolested computer with an $1,800 base price,' iFixit said in the teardown description. iFixit also spotted an unusual amount of thermal paste applied to both the CPU and the GPU. 'Holy thermal paste! Time will tell if the gobs of thermal paste applied to the CPU and GPU will cause overheating issues down the road,' iFixit said. The refreshed MacBook Pro models launched last Thursday in what one analyst called a 'ho-hum' upgrade."

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Re:Ho hum?

[pandrijeczko]

Yes, but you are a fanboi, that's what you're *supposed* to do, for God's sake - in fact, how you escaped the hypnotic clutches of Steve's Charisma Beam and lasted two years without an upgrade is probably worthy of some deeper investigation by the clerics of the Holy Church of Apple.

Look at it from my perspective - if I proudly crowed about standing outside queuing in the rain the day before a new Dell Laptop or Ubuntu Linux 11.04 was released, you'd call me a sad loony!

iFixit is not an uninterested party

[Kyusaku Natsume]

Of course they will trash today Apple after the bad joke of iFixit's iPhone Liberation Kit. They need this to help their Google score and certainly it is working. They are not the only one web site for macbook repair but is the most known, the guys at http://www.powerbookmedic.com/ for example haven't done any of iFixit's theatrical gestures buy they are fine, they don't have has many guides like iFixit but over time they will grow to be a good competitor.