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Teardown: Inside Apple MacBook Pro

Our colleagues at UBM TechInsights did a partial teardown of the new MacBook Pro from Apple. We have the pictures. The disassembled unit appears to be the $2799 configuration of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina screen. TechInsights did a separate teardown of the solid state drive (SSD) in the MacBook Pro, including x-ray images.
Teardown: Inside Apple MacBook Pro
Comments | Larry Seltzer | June 27, 2012 03:26 PM

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Apple MacBook Pro Teardown: Motherboard Components

Zooming in on the motherboard, we find the following components:
  • an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU (the chip in the center-bottom with a green edge and blue center).
  • a 2.6-GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache (the big rectangle to the right of the GPU).
  • Hynix H5TC2G83CFR DDR3L SDRAM (the 16 chips above the CPU).
  • an Intel DSL3510L Thunderbolt controller (the big square above the SDRAM).

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