The refreshed MacBook holds few surprises, resembling a Star Trek teleportation mix-up between the prior 13″ white MacBook and the current 13″ MacBook Pro. It retains a white polycarbonate case much like its predecessor while adopting a subset of the Pro’s components — CPU and GPU, glass trackpad, Mini DisplayPort, and the long-lived but sealed battery. Internally the system is still a maze of different-sized Torx, Phillips and tri-wing screws, but they do report this latest revision to be easier to dismantle for repair.
More novel inside and out is the new Magic Mouse, which early reports suggest may finally redeem Apple’s eleven year train wreck of mice. There’s not much to see on the bottom half — it’s a typical wireless mouse consisting of batteries, laser tracker and a Bluetooth chip. The top is something to behold though, with nearly the entire surface encrusted in capacitive sensors capable of gestural input. It resembles a miniature version of this electrostatic interface we saw in April.
No teardowns of the new iMacs, Mac mini or Time Capsule have taken place yet, but it’s surely just a matter of time. Even Velociraptors need to eat and sleep.
Update: 27″ iMac teardown added. Rawr!
Nice refined design.
27″ imac Teardown here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-27-Inch/1236/1
That mouse sounds pretty neat…although I could never buy it with a name like that. It sounds like what you get when you watch The Mickey Mouse Club while on an IV of morphine. And it also looks like a bar of soap. Well, that’s Apple for you.
@phil,
Its the same designer isn’t it? I know one of the apple designers worked with pixar on Eve.
@Caleb: Johnathan Ive, yep.
Well at least it has replaceable batteries! LOL
Jeeze… I’m edging toward no longer buying Apple stuff. It’s a good thing I sold all my firewire stuff earlier this year. I suppose I won’t be getting a new macbook until they realize that part of the point of the device is to have less limitations in power tethering over distances; why did they make the battery extremely difficult to change out?
Good links, good tear-downs, thanks!
It also looks like I would need a new “mini” port adapter for the display out feature.
@RoboGuy
The Magic mouse is awesome. I don’t care if Apple called it the “dildo mouse for anal lovers.” I’d still buy it.
i’m with Roboguy, i order mine the day it came out!
Who cares?
@DontBuyFromLogitech are you a spam robot by chance? your post is irrelevant and there is a rather strange link on your name.
@Ryan Leach,
I think so. I’ve been deleting most of his posts. They mainly just contain some anti logitec sentiment. If it were on topic, I’d leave it.
It’s weird how the sensors seem to cover a lot of room which will be always under your palm and possibly never ever used even when the hand is moved down to do the circle thing shown on the video.
I wonder if there is some plan to use it in a as of yet unmentioned manner, perhaps in some OSX update, but that too seems farfetched.
I think this mouse is awesome. a great thing for a computer repair technician to show off.
wow operation technology….the mouse..mighty..mouse…miauuuu….arghhh