The MacBook Air after the teardown. [credit:
iFixit
]
Those who preordered the M2 MacBook Air have been receiving them over the past few days, and repair supplies vendor iFixit is among those who received a unit. If you’ve been tracking iFixit’s work after other Apple launches over the past several years, you know what that means: teardown time.
Like the 24-inch iMac before it, the MacBook Air is mostly full of… a lot of empty space. The battery dominates the device’s interior, but beyond that, we’re mostly just looking at mechanisms for the trackpad, keyboard, and a small logic board.
The teardown revealed thermal paste and graphite tape but no active cooling. iFixit notes that the machine will likely run hot, which we found in our throttling tests.
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