2013 MacBook Pro 13” utterly fails iFixit’s teardown

There’s a lot of talk about eWaste these days and how bad it is for the environment. Apple seems keen on helping the problem, by making it worse.

The folks at iFixit have once again sunk their grubby little fingers into Cupertino’s latest covet-book, the 13” MacBook Pro with retina display. What they found inside was not a pretty iSight. Odd screws, proprietary connectors for just about everything, and an obscene amount of glue holding all those guts in place.

It seems Apple is hell bent on making their products disposable. Which is quite alarming when you take into account just how expensive they are. Something as simple as a bad battery could turn your beloved silver toy into the world’s priciest door stop.

Not surprisingly, iFixit rated the 2013 13” MacBook Pro a 1 out of 10 on their repairability scale, which is even lower than dismal showing made by last year’s model. Seems like this is the price we must pay for the new generation of thin and light computers. Though I still find it ironic that Al Gore is on their board of directors, and seems to have no problem with throw-away laptops. I guess as long as it’s not emitting greenhouse gasses.