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iFixit Tears Down the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro, Finds Few Major Changes
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Did I read somewhere that the speakers now have subwoofers on the 15 and 17 inch models?Or has it always been that way?
The Powerbook G4's have subwoofers. The only time I notice the sub is during the startup "bong". The iBooks aren;t as deep of a bong.
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Its possible, but you need to change the case to 15 or 17 inch, screen to 15 or 17, and 15 or 17 logic board
Really? - If you check out all the photos from the iFixit site you'll see the MASSIVE space being consumed by the optical drive.
I'm no engineer, but I reckon if you took the optical drive out you could chuck in a SSD + HDD, and a much larger battery. Is there anyone here who would not like a huge increase in performance?
I am sorry but clearly you do not belong here if you are willing to admit you were wrong and correct yourself.
What can I say?
When I take on the trolls here, I try to do so with verifiable facts on my side.
Yes, that's the way it's been for quite a few generations. I think the other poster was referring to the fact that it's probably questionable to call anything that size a sub-woofer.
Typically, a sub-woofer would generate frequencies less than about 60-100 Hz (although there may not be a standard definition, that's the way most audio people would see it). I doubt if this particular little speaker is going to do much below 100 Hz.
I would call it a woofer, but even that's a bit of a stretch (particularly since there are only 2 pairs of speakers. Tweeter/woofer makes more sense than tweeter/subwoofer). But, then, that doesn't sound as good to the marketing people as sub-woofer.
I would really love it if ifixit or someone else could try putting this new 77.5 watt battery into the previous 15" MBP. The mid 2009 15" used a 73 watt hour battery and I would be ecstatic if anyone could tell me if the new battery would fit and work with the previous MBP. I would also like to know the mAh rating on the new battery. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could check with coconut battery or run "ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity" in terminal.
Sure I don't expect the 4.5 Watt hour increase to give me the same battery life as the new MBP, but if it can give me an extra 20-30 minutes it would be great. I wouldn't go out of my way to upgrade just now, but I would within a year from now when my current battery will probably last only 4-5 hours. I am currently getting only about 5-6 hours now, 6 hours is the best I can get now even with extreme energy conservation. When my MBP was new I could get slightly better than 7 hours with extreme conservation.
Sure I don't expect the 4.5 Watt hour increase to give me the same battery life as the new MBP, but if it can give me an extra 20-30 minutes it would be great. I wouldn't go out of my way to upgrade just now, but I would within a year from now when my current battery will probably last only 4-5 hours. I am currently getting only about 5-6 hours now, 6 hours is the best I can get now even with extreme energy conservation. When my MBP was new I could get slightly better than 7 hours with extreme conservation.
I'm such an obtuse bastard sometimes.
Purists say subwoofers should be below (sub) the range of woofers which is typically in the 20-40hz range. Realists say anything that is below 100hz-150hz is OK as it avoids directionality. Given that people have been able to pick out the location of the "sub" on MacBooks and MBPs, I would argue that that particular aspiration has not been met. Furthermore, iven the size of these things, I doubt they produce anything below 100hz. Not even a woofer, let alone a "sub woofer". But, yeah, they're still there.
Yet Anandtech said it was noticeably warmer. Should probably try and use it before you tear it apart iFixit
Maybe they reduced the power consumption and decided to use more passive heat dissipation, running the fans less (which would further reduce consumption - since fan motors drink juice).
Lower power means less heat generated, but doesn't necessarily mean that the body will be cooler to touch.
Great design indeed, but still pretty expensive; now count the number of parts.. only a hand full... and $600 profit for Apple. Amazing job.
I am sorry but clearly you do not belong here if you are willing to admit you were wrong and correct yourself.
LOL! Good sense of humor and insight into how these boards often devolve.
I wonder what you will say when in, say, six years iFixit opens MBP and tells us that the internals are still the same. Also, unchanged design is probably one of the reasons we did not get options for Quad Core i7 or modern graphic card. I guess you are happy about this too because this is a "better service to customers". You are a funny guy
upgrade battrey
I want to know if i could upgrade to the 2010 battery from my 2009 version.
I've got apple care and that, and i bought this laptop in march 2010, any body able to shed some light?
I want to know if i could upgrade to the 2010 battery from my 2009 version.
I've got apple care and that, and i bought this laptop in march 2010, any body able to shed some light?
Do the new unibodys have PLASTIC hinges!?
It there a reference to plastic hinges in the iFixit teardown? I couldn't find it.
Well the Unibody's always had plastic Hinges. The reason was because they put the WIFI and Bluetooth Antenna's there. Now the Antenna's are removed and places next to the DVD drive, but as far as I know the Hinges are still black plastic
With kind regards,
Bas
Yes my lap has been a good form of passive heat dissipation for my MBP for a while now. I need to get me some asbestos pants. But I suspect you may be right - running the fans less may be a big part of it.
I hope that having a thinner camera cable was not deemed more important than WiFi signal strength. I'm really interested to know how the new machines fare on reception compared to the previous.
In a way it was important. Multiple of my friends had problems with non working WIFI and/or webcam after 2 years of use. I guess this was weak point, which most likely is solved with this. However it is odd that the Hinge still remain from plastic. Personally I always found that the ugliest part of the unibody's
With kind regards,
Bas
Forget about swapping batteries, I want to know if I can upgrade my Rev A 15” Unibody screen to a high res display.
I remember back a few years ago someone managed to graft a MBP display onto their G4… if they could pull that off then swapping Unibody displays should be a piece of cake, amirite?
Edit: Now that I think about it, such an upgrade would probably cost 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a new computer… why bother, right?
I remember back a few years ago someone managed to graft a MBP display onto their G4… if they could pull that off then swapping Unibody displays should be a piece of cake, amirite?
Edit: Now that I think about it, such an upgrade would probably cost 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a new computer… why bother, right?