Experts iFixit dissected updated laptop MacBook Pro, equipped with 13-inch Retina display and the new touchpad Force Touch.
The updated MacBook Pro with Retina-display is equipped with Intel Core 5th generation at up to 3.1 GHz (Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.4GHz), faster graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 and the flash memory with the increased speed of up to 2 times Work and bandwidth up to 1.6 Gbit / s. In addition, the 13-inch MacBook Pro can now run on battery power up to 10 hours on a single charge and up to 12 hours of movies in iTunes.
The highlight of the 13-inch MacBook Pro has become an innovative trackpad Force Touch - the same as in the new ultra-thin MacBook. Dismantling the machine specialists found Velocity sensors and haptic feedback mechanism, which provides a uniform response. It consists of an array of electromagnets interacting with a metal rack for TrackPad and reliably create the effect of "clicks". Operates and using gesture Force Click - clicking on the touch panel with force. In Force Touch uses two new components - a microcontroller ST Microelectronics 32F103 ARM Cortex-M and the touch digitizer Broadcom BCM5976.
In addition to the new trackpad inside the laptop experts iFixit found components from manufacturers such as Samsung, Broadcom, SK Hynix, Cypress Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Elpida, Micron, Genesys, Cirrus, NXP Semiconductors, Parade Technology and others.
The new MacBook Pro is recognized as quite permanent damage: on a scale of iFixit, he received only 1 point from a possible 10. Experts note that the use of proprietary fasteners greatly complicates remove cells. RAM chips soldered to the motherboard, making it impossible to upgrade. Applied as a drive SSD-module has a non-standard format. Battery is glued into the body, due to which increases the risk of damage during parsing. Finally, the display module is a unitary structure, extremely expensive in case of replacement.