I get that the new touch bar will replace the Function keys, but what if you use Function keys in Excel etc ..... how will you perform these functions with the new macbook pro ?

if they not put jack, when they can't show dj staff on presentation

The reason they didn't want it in the iPhone is because it takes up too much space in such a thin, small device. A laptop, even a new, thin one, still has a bit more breathing room and a port like that has less of an impact. I feel like you guys know this, know that *we* know this, and just added that comment to rile people up. =P

I don't think it's odd to have a jack. A laptop and a phone are different machines. People use laptops to watch movies and edit multimedia...

I believe the removal of the jack from the iPhone was to increase it's water resistance. Not as much of an issue with laptops.

Something about A1708( If you want to see more electronic components product-data,this web is a good choic: http://www.hqew.net/product-data )

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

 Base chemistry: epoxy only, cationic polymerization

 One component adhesive ready for use, solvent-free, UV and/or heat curing

PRODUCT USE:

 Active alignment of components for optoelectronics and semiconductor packaging

 High precision bonding  Bonding of opaque substrates and optical parts

FEATURES:

 Epoxy only, high adhesion, high Tg, long shelf and working life, room temperature stable, not sensitive to oxygen in cure process, excellent reliability performances, robust for solder reflow process

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE:

1) Clean the substrates to remove contamination, dust, moisture, salt and/or oil

2) Dispense adhesive on substrates

3) Bond substrates (with active alignment – optional)

4) UV cure to fix alignment or to bond

5) Thermal cure: to cure adhesive in shadow area and to improve adhesion of bonded parts

The screws for the bottom cover is a T5 right? The six screws.

Also, do you know if it's possible to buy a set of replacement screws for the cover?

One of my screws is stripped, I can unscrew it but if I do I can't use it again for sure.

I did mean P5 and not T5, the same size that it is for the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro 2015?

is this a some kind of metal glue in the corners and in few lines between em?

suspect the small pins are i2c or similar communication points to connect to whatever electronics within the battery (or some temperature sensor or something)

Definitely test points upon cracking open one of these bad boys the say tp and than letter/number combinations by each smaller pin, I would say that is hard to doubt that they are test points, if you scroll to step 9 the picture shows the tp labeling

Do i have to remove the battery to replace the headphone jack?

if you disconnected one end connector of that cable(like pic.#3), it won’t charge and doesn’t show battery under system report….well, that what happened to me late 2016 mbp 13” non-touchbar

uitkijken voor de losse stukjes onderaan de touchpad (dunne spacers rond de schroefbusjes). Deze zijn flinterdun en moeilijk terug te vinden als ze op de grond vallen.

I have to wonder how long this step took. I have to wonder if you have to re-heat the adhesive to re-install.

do you sell these batteries ?

This guide is terribly below standard. Bit of heat? On the battery?! Why not use some Iso Alc and let it absorb into the adhesive? No? Warming up the battery with a heatgun isn’t exactly a bright move is it.

This is much more for important for data recovery than for upgrades. Just imagine the horror when you spill a bit of coke on your mac and 512 GB of your data are gone. This way you can swap the SSD to your new Macbook Pro and just go on as nothing happened.

Are you sure it won't also be fried along with the other components?

Chances it will stay alive are very high as it is a small component and shielded from both sides.

Looks like a PCIe 3.0 x8?

Any chance the shield is meant to reduce the chirping/grinding sounds of the SSD? Does it differ from the Early 2015 in ways that would be likely to impact the amount of high frequency noise from the SSD?

As for swapping the SSD for a new computer - are we sure that the computer doesn't key the computer's UUID or something to the flash translation table (or some other part) of the flash? Even if you *don't* have FileVault encryption turned on?

Will you ever find a compatible SSD on alternative market? Is it an option to buy the 256GB model and upgrade it by yourself?

But it might indicate that Apple will offer an "upgrade"path in the future (Optane/XPoint when Intel figure out how to make it work? Yeah, I know, wishful thinking). Or could they stuff some other chip on that board? Instead of using 4 chips for the SSD, use two higher-density chips and put an M2 chip in the remaining space?

("Our latest baby - the second generation M2 motion co-processor. Packed with new and exciting features.. we're sure you're going to love it!" me writing Apple's press release for them..)

@francesco Time Machine is great until you want a bare metal OSX with your data added to it. In some cases you may want to upgrade a hard drive and put a brand new fresh copy of OSX on it only pull files and folders without pulling the whole directory from your old drive. This is something we in IT do all the time as it gets rid of a ton of background junk that gets backed up that takes up space.

Hi, I had a situation with this MacBook Pro. I’m trying to replace the screen. However I sent my MBP (this MBP) to a bad technical services and they removed this protective tape. It’s ok if I leave the SSD without this protective tape???? I appreciate your help!!!

Hi, im trying to clean my ssd, I’ve heard it is solded sooo can I?

Can someone please identify what connector I need to read this SSD? I broke the computer but the drive still works.

I don’t want to buy/borrow a working model from someone just to put the drive in there and read off the data.

From the information shown in the OS X, the SSD controller should be the same one used in the MacBook released early 2016. F4432ACPE-GD-F could be 4Gb LPDDR3 from Micron.

SSD controller inside Apple Macbook 2016. It is AP0256J.

http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/archives/0...

SSD controller in the Apple MacBook Pro 2016. It is also AP0256J.

http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/macintosh/...

The difference is PCIe lane numbers. In the MacBook 2016, it is 2-lanes PCIe 3.0 and it is 4-lanes PCIe 3.0 in the MacBook Pro 2016.

> first time we've seen Apple's … controller in a removable

Did you not see late 2015 iMac and MacBook Air? Both contain Apple NVMe blades.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-...

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2015...

http://blog.macsales.com/33572-owc-unbox...

Recall that Apple purchased Anobit, an Israeli SSD controller company back in 2011.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/12/app...

What are the silver round-rectangle things on the edge of the speakers assembly? Are those what actually creates vibration? (I really need to read up on modern speaker technology - my knowledge stops at coil-and-cone speakers..)

Uhh, y’all? A strange feeling, like the boy in a “25 years later” special edition re-visit to the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” which hasn’t yet happened… I don’t see an audio-producing device there. Also, Mactracker lists three audio-in sources, which stretches credibility.

iFixIt tear-down guide makers: please make plain how the “stereo audio” works. It’s not ~1996 anno domini anymore, and hooking my Labtec-brand microphone to my compact disc-supporting, stereo AM/FM radio’s headphones jack (and having the mic faintly emit the audio) is not as cool as such once may have been. In actuality, not a reason to be confused regarding “sound senses” of life.

—Christopher Gautam Hota

If you check apple website, the touchbar version has 2 fans instead of one, and th 15 inch has "twice as many blades"

Thermal architecture has a lot more than heatsink path area and location to it. It has to do with where the sources are postioned, conductivity and length of the path from sources to sinks, etc. unless you build up thermal models for comparison, I do not think you can claim that this system is not susbstantially different.

Looks like way too much thermal paste to me. Shades of 2011...

A lot of people have complained about Apple obsession with overly-thin computers, and would prefer more battery over a 6 mm reduction in thickness any day (myself included). The simplest way would seem to add more battery under the palm rests, and just left the rest to be "wasted space". Would that that necessarily make the thermal properties of the machine as a whole better? Or would it just create air turbulence inside or make things worse - overheating some other component rather than venting the heat to the air that's blown out the hinge slots? Does the MBP 2016 have *any* other air vents other than the slots under the screen hinge and the keyboard? And does the keyboard really do anything in that regard?

I swear that big chip has the same proportions of the Motorola 68000

Can someone tell me where the Power Pins are?

Does anyone have the exact size/data of it? I would like to render it…

Sony actually used this “advanced architecture” in their PlayStation 3 :-P

It is not Intel DSL6510 Thunderbolt 3 controller. It it not DSL6540 either.

From the chip marking, it should be Intel JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 controller.

http://ark.intel.com/products/94031/Inte...

Can you shed more light on WiFi module, like antennas and specs? Cheers

can you replace or switch out the CPU or is it soldered onto the logic board?

Hi, I had a situation with this MacBook Pro. I’m trying to replace the screen. However I sent my MBP (this MBP) to a bad technical services and they removed the protective tape from the LPDDR3 DRAM area. It’s ok if I leave this part without this protective tape???? I appreciate your help!!!

Can anyone please link a (free) datasheet from the Audio Codec chip? I'm curious to sound quality. How the Macbook Pro Retina mid 2015 (13", 15") sound quality is compared to this new (?) one. Thanks.

Is there two audio chips from Cirrus Logic? There is Cirrus Logic CS42L63A Audio Codec. And, on the upper right corner, there is one chip next to CS42L63A. It has marking "CIRRUS". Is that also audio codec?

Taping the two microphones to the only moving component of the entire system doesn't seem a brilliant solution.

Placing the two microphones so close to CPU fan is really not a good idea. The other side of the case would be a better place for microphones. Don't understand why Apple makes such a design.

So... correct me if I'm wrong but does this mean if one of these fancy fans breaks I have to remove my logic board to replace it? -_-

The space not occupied by blades is called spiral housing and is to increase the pressure recovery and the fan is therefore able to increase the flow. Pretty much standard in normal fans, pumps and turbines.

It's probably not the same design as the touch bar version, as this one much like a improved version of the rMBP13, while the touch bar version are having different lengths of blades (as official website suggested). I'm interested to see what the touch bar version offers.

Is this component called the ‘daughterboard’? Can you purchase this part anywhere? I dont see it listed on the ifixit site unfortunately and i dont know the name of this part

Thank you!

This step may reveal the most significant change in the new MacBook Pro models, and one that I was hoping for as it showed up in the most recently released MacBook Air series. I believe we are looking at a flat molded ribbon cable which is carrying the display signal. And why is that so significant?

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The nasty bundle-of-wires these machines have suffered with for the previous 15 years almost universally wear out after about three years. I have a stack of them, and have replaced this cable in dozens. Once Apple changed to hermetically joining the cable to the display unit, it was very very difficult to replace the cable without mangling the display. So a failed cable would necessitated replacing an otherwise operation display.

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As far as I know, the Pismo was the last pro level Apple laptop to sport the hinge-ribbon-cable arrangement and mine still works great after all this time. Perhaps in spite of the ram being soldered down, Apple has at last produced a worthy laptop?

This may be the most significant change in the new model. It looks like there is a flat ribbon cable to carry the video signal. Those are far more durable than the nasty bundle-of-wires which Apple laptops have been cursed with for the last 15 years. I might bother to buy one.

I see the base model has now a 2x2 wifi module, whereas the model year before had 3x3, if I remember correctly.

"...held in by 12 P2 Pentalobe screws...That's the 6th kind of bit."

No, it isn't the 6th kind. The back was held on by pentalobes.

If you mean the 6th kind/size combination, then every notebook, tower, rack server I've ever had would qualify.

the Pismo was the last pro level Apple laptop to sport the hinge-ribbon-cable arrangement

So Apple used a better ribbon cable arrangement with the Pismo, and then moved *back* to the budle-of-wires-that-always-breaks?! (And it seems like a ribbon cable would also be easier to make)

Bad news. I have one of these, and after 18 months the display has failed due to the ribbon cable/flexible PCB going open circuit. The bend radius on the flex-PCB is about 2.5 mm, which is pretty small for long term durability, even if the thickness and materials of the PCB are optimal. (Dynamic flex-PCB designs typically use a radius of 5-15 mm for long life.) In contrast, my old Apple laptops (10+ years old) haven’t suffered from this sort of problem, so it’s not clear to me that this change is actually an improvement and not another step backwards in the pursuit of thinness.

The spring mechanism to tension the flat cable is probably to stop it kinking as it slides in and out of the slot in the base. This makes it a “pull” when moving in both directions, rather than a “pull” on open and “push” on close. A kink might stop the display closing, and would probably ruin the cable.

What screws are these really? People keep saying they are 1.1mm P2s, but I cant find a driver for that anywhere.

Btw, thanks again for the informative teardown!

Having had hinge problems once with a Gateway laptop, these in the new MacBook look durable.

Can you remove the apple logo? Can it be replaced with a clear logo to make it illuminate like the previous model?

LoL this keycap is broken, just like what happened every time I tried to clean the keyboard.

Are each keys individually LED backlit like MacBook or some other lighting mechanism ?

Hopefully those are of better quality. Those newer MBP have keys that flat that the surface is quickly torn down (partly missing surface by abrasion or poor quality after 10 months was considered by Apple service as normal and out of warranty)

I wonder is the butterfly 2 actually "rubber-free?" Which means it's all plastic, so there's no worry about the aging.