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iFixit teardown shows M2 MacBook Pro is just a recycled laptop with a new chip inside

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Updated 2022/07/02 at 9:57 AM
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Announced at WWDC 2022, the new 13-inch Mac­Book Pro with the M2 chip final­ly arrived in stores and in the hands of cus­tomers last week. And, while the fact that the M2 Mac­Book Pro is not a huge upgrade com­pared to its pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion is no sur­prise, a tear­down by iFix­it has now shown that this Mac­Book is just a recy­cled lap­top with a new chip inside.

Thanks to iFix­it, a well-known com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in inde­pen­dent repair, we can now take a bet­ter look at the inter­nal com­po­nents of the new 13-inch Mac­Book Pro to see what’s dif­fer­ent com­pared to the 2020 mod­el. Spoil­er alert: pret­ty much noth­ing has changed except for the M2 chip.

M2 MacBook Pro is a recycled laptop.

It’s no sur­prise that Apple reused the body of the 13-inch M1 Mac­Book Pro since the lap­tops are vir­tu­al­ly iden­ti­cal. How­ev­er, iFix­it noticed that even the bot­tom cov­er of the new lap­top is the same as the 2020 ver­sion. Both have the mod­el num­ber “A2338” laser engraved on them, as well as the same FCC ID, which con­firms that Apple didn’t even both­er to update the labels with the new mod­el ID – assum­ing there is a new ID model.

On a relat­ed note, MKBHD showed in his review of the M2 Mac­Book Pro that even the box is the same as the pre­vi­ous mod­el, as Apple sim­ply put a new stick­er with the tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions over the old one.

Back to the tear­down, the screws on the bot­tom cov­er are the same as the pre­vi­ous one, as are most of the inter­nal com­po­nents. Apple has changed some of the chips, but they’re locat­ed in the exact same posi­tion as on the M1 Mac­Book Pro log­ic board. For some rea­son, the heatsink on the M2 Mac­Book Pro has squared off cor­ners, but this doesn’t seem to have any impact on how the com­po­nent works.

Remov­ing the log­ic board from the M2 Mac­Book Pro is not exact­ly dif­fi­cult, but the com­po­nent can eas­i­ly be dam­aged with­out the right tools. iFix­it was able to put the M2 Mac­Book Pro’s log­ic board into the M1 Mac­Book Pro – and although the lap­top turns on, it doesn’t detect the built-in key­board and track­pad, mak­ing the upgrade useless.

YouTu­ber Luke Miani also tried to switch the chip between the two machines, but the lap­top didn’t even turn on.

iFixit teardown shows M2 MacBook Pro is just a recycled laptop with a new chip inside.

iFix­it also cor­rob­o­rat­ed the change in the base mod­el of the 13-inch Mac­Book Pro when it comes to the SSD, as the ver­sion with 256GB of stor­age now has a sin­gle NAND chip, which reduces data trans­fer speeds com­pared to the M1 Mac­Book Pro with 256GB of stor­age, which had two NAND chips.

Can it be repaired?

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it seems that Apple has been try­ing to make third-par­ty repairs even more dif­fi­cult with the new gen­er­a­tion 13-inch Mac­Book Pro. Accord­ing to iFix­it, even the ser­i­al num­ber of the track­pad on the new lap­top is tied to the SoC, which means that you can’t replace it with­out replac­ing the entire log­ic board – or at least with­out an inter­nal Apple tool.

The good news is that iFix­it believes that the M2 Mac­Book Pro will even­tu­al­ly be added to Apple’s Self Repair Pro­gram so that con­sumers can buy legit­i­mate Mac­Book Pro parts to replace them.

Of course, since the M2 Mac­Book Pro is not a flag­ship machine, it’s no sur­prise that Apple has reused most of the com­po­nents from the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion, espe­cial­ly as tech com­pa­nies are still deal­ing with chip short­ages. Still, the new M2 Mac­Book Air seems like a bet­ter deal at this point, as it has a brand new design with an edge-to-edge dis­play and MagSafe connector.

You can watch the iFix­it tear­down below or on YouTube:

It’s worth not­ing that the new M2 Mac­Book Air is not yet avail­able for pre-order and will hit the stores in July. You can buy a new Mac from Apple or look for spe­cial offers on Ama­zon. Prices for the new M2 Mac­Book Pro start at $1,299.


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