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."

Comments

Re:So much for build quality...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're not paying for build quality, what ARE you getting (hardware-wise) for the extra money, given that most of Apple's components are industry standard now?

You are getting that little Apple logo when you boot? There is no magic hardware differences between different computer makers. Apple just has their OS on their hardware while Dell sells Windows + shitton of bloat. So you are paying for no software bloat, I guess.

Re:Maybe that is a Chinese fake?

[slasher157]

Correct link