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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by oneeyedpigeon on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:48AM (#27423956)
It doesn't feel like that long ago (granted, it was the best part of twenty years...) that my Mac laptop had a lever underneath which popped the HDD clean out. That was a lovely design.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by Hamuko on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:58AM (#27424075)
Apple has been making their devices much harder to open as time has passed. My 2011 MacBook didn't have any kind of a lever mechanism but after taking out about ten Philips 00 screws, the lid lifts clean open.

And now my 2019 work MacBook requires taking out non-standard pentalobe screws, then using a suction cup to pry the lid open slightly in order to cram a wedge tool in-between to pop it open and then you need to slide it out in order to actually get it out.

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