Late 2009 MacBook battery, RAM are ‘user replaceable’
Assuming your MacBook is out-of-warranty and you can use a screwdriver, the memory and battery in Apple’s new consumer / education notebook are user upgradeable. Yes, just about anyone can technically do the work any time, but the mothership will likely void of the warranty of anyone it catches behaving rationally.
“The battery is held in with both tri-wing and Phillips screws, an indication that Apple doesn’t want you replacing the battery yourself,” says Apple product teardown specialist iFixIt. “One of the three tri-wing screws is beneath a warning label in the top left corner of the battery.”
Source: iFixIt
Like its more expensive 13 inch MacBook Pro cousin, the new MacBook has a 60 watt hour battery that Apple claims will keep an average computing for seven hours. Also, this higher capacity power source is said to be about 24 percent lighter than its replaceable predecessor.
Of course iFixIt’s teardown is also a guided tour on how to upgrade the new MacBook’s memory and battery.
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