Apple ’s Macbooks are live to be hard ( if not impossible ) to vivify , but there ’s always been the option if you ’re refractory enough . But in a teardown of the latest spare - pink Macbook , iFixit discoveredsomething more troubling : screws that deepen if you fiddle with them .
While conducting theirusual teardownof the slightly - new Macbook , iFixit spotted something singular with the head of the screws holding the hinge in place : they ’re filled with a material that disintegrate if you put a screwdriver in , provide a very telltale augury if someone ’s attempt to mess up with them .
It ’s a different chemical compound to the threadlocker unremarkably find on modest - diameter screws : the only likely account is to severalize Apple if someone has afford up their laptop , and thus make them ineligible for warranty .
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These sort of anti - tamper mechanics are unluckily common with consumer technical school product , although commonly in the descriptor of a tamping bar - evident sticker . It ’s a shame to discover it on the new Macbooks , because previous Apple laptop have kept the power to do some lightheaded mods , without whole annul your warrantee .
aside from the sneaky fresh screws , there ’s not much noteworthy about the supererogatory - pink Macbook . The battery is ever so slightly larger and the processor a little young , but otherwise , it ’s the same one - port Macbook that we ’ve all derive to love and detest . In iFixit ’s cause , it ’s very firmly detest : the modest chassis , proprietary components and tamper - evident screw combine to give it a 1 out of 10 on the repairability scale .
[ iFixit ]
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