A MacBook Neo teardown has revealed an internal Apple surprise: The new budget laptop is actually easy to get into.
For several generations, the company’s laptops have been designed as sealed vaults that house a processor, memory, storage and other electronics. And when I say “sealed,” I mean it: Opening one up often involves using a heat gun to soften stretches of glue and adhesive strips.
That’s all great for creating a solid aluminum laptop that won’t split when you look at it sideways, but it is an ongoing source of frustration for non-Apple repair shops and individuals willing to violate their warranties to make minor changes instead of paying Apple to do the work. With encouragement from the Right to Repair movement and those independent shops, Apple has gradually made it easier to access its computers since 2021.
But “easier” isn’t the same as “easy,” which is why it was a surprise
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