Our team is working incredibly hard to improve our product line and develop the Fixit Guide series." But most important, we want to keep our options open. Secondly, Apple is discontinuing the PowerBook name and we want to stay relevant to all Mac owners. Their new web address is:Įxplaining the move, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said, "Why are we changing names? A few reasons.
2006 MACBOOK PRO DISASSEMBLY FOR MAC
PB FixIt, publisher for the past three years of one of the most helpful and useful free resources for Mac laptop and Mac mini owners on the Web - their superb Fixit Guide series, has just changed its name to iFixit.
2006 MACBOOK PRO DISASSEMBLY MANUALS
In any case, those manuals are intended for use by trained service technicians, and leave much to be desired in the context of a consumer user who just wants to repair or upgrade an internal component in his/her book, while avoiding expensive shop charges were Apple's astoundingly high fees for sending a iBook to them for servicing. Official PowerBook service manuals used to be downloadable on the Internet, but Apple put the kibosh on that several years ago. The G3 Series and 1400 PowerBooks are about the best, but even they are a challenge if you need to dig any deeper than the stuff that can be accessed directly beneath the removable keyboards.Ĭonsequently, what the Mac portable world needs are some good, easy to follow teardown manuals. However, there has never been in Apple laptop that could be characterized as easy to work on. Occasionally Macs have shone in this regard notable examples of easy-to-work-on-Macs being the Power Mac G3 and G4 "drawbridge" tower models, and the old Color Classic and 500 series AIO machines with their pull-out logic boards in a drawer.
Macs have manifold virtues, but with rare exceptions ease of access to their internal workings has not traditionally been one of them.
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