Tech-On , a publication of Nikkey, gave engineers a MacBook Air, which was torn to pieces and they gave their views on its architecture. They were very surprised, admitting that they have never seen anything similar in their career: it does not resemble any other machine. Mostly they were surprised by the complexity not of the motherboard, but of the assembly of the machine. Imagine it took 30 screws to remove the keyboard. These cannot be for securing the keybord - there is not the slightest chance of the keyboard moving if the laptop is knocked. One of them has even said that he would never have dared to propose such a solution to his employers for fear of being given an earful. Overall, there are simply an enormous number of screws in the machine: What mount several laptops from other brands! They presume that Apple has completely supervised and imposed its own design of the inside of the machine without taking advice from external engineers, and without seeking to reduce the time of manufacture. Hard to say whether less screws would reduce the price of the machine, but with so many screws the customer service engineers will lose a lot of time at the slightest repair. Overall, this is nothing new: Apple has always loved the screws, especially in its laptops. We have fond memories of the time required to remove the fifty screws providing access to the heart of a MacBook ... The worst in this area have certainly been the Powerbook 12 "... there were always some over at the end of reassembly. [translation by jeremy]

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