New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' 531
CWmike writes "Apple's new MacBook Pro shows some build-quality problems that shouldn't be seen in a notebook that costs $1,800, a teardown expert said on Monday. iFixit.com found several signs of substandard assembly while disassembling a 15-in. MacBook Pro. Among them: A stripped screw near the subwoofer enclosure and an unlocked ZIF (zero insertion force) socket for the IR (infrared) sensor. '[These] should not be things found inside a completely unmolested computer with an $1,800 base price,' iFixit said in the teardown description. iFixit also spotted an unusual amount of thermal paste applied to both the CPU and the GPU. 'Holy thermal paste! Time will tell if the gobs of thermal paste applied to the CPU and GPU will cause overheating issues down the road,' iFixit said. The refreshed MacBook Pro models launched last Thursday in what one analyst called a 'ho-hum' upgrade."
Re:Ho hum? (Score:2, Funny)
Amazing you can speak with your mouth full of Steve Jobs' cock.
Re:Sample size: n=1 (Score:5, Funny)
I asked a friend; he said the line between this one data point and his preconceived notions shows a definite trend.
ZIF (Score:3, Funny)
You had me at zero insertion force
Re:So much for build quality... (Score:5, Funny)
Anonymous coward offers anecdotal evidence. Well, I'm sold!
Re:HP - Dell? (Score:4, Funny)
>>>Lets try open an equivalent HP/Dell then eh?
Damn straight! This whole Slashdot Summary should be modded troll. Apple would never, ever, never have "build quality problems" in their $1800 machines. Everybody knows their laptops are better quality than my - I mean those half-price $900 PC laptops.
That's why we Apple users pay so much for them!!! It's like buying Lexus/Acura instead of Toyota/Honda, even though they are made by the same engineers in the same factory with identical engines & chassis.
(kneels before porcelain Jobs)
Did I do alright master?
Not stripped (Score:4, Funny)
OK (Score:3, Funny)
So, you spend $1800 on a status symbol, and you expect quality too?
Re:So much for build quality... (Score:1, Funny)
what ARE you getting (hardware-wise) for the extra money
The Apple Shaped Reality Distortion Field Emmiter.