13-inch M2 MacBook Pro teardown confirms Apple’s lazy and ‘baffling’ design

If the in depth screening and your have eyes weren’t ample evidence, we now have definitive proof that the 13-inch MacBook Professional M2 is almost nothing much more than a recycled M1.

IFixit has carried out its customary tear down of the new device and verified what anyone envisioned: the new MacBook Pro is merely a 2020 MacBook Professional with a new logic board. The new devices are so comparable, in actuality, Apple is reusing the similar A2338 product selection on both of those equipment. The screws, the removing process, even the placement of the chips and cables are the identical, though iFixit notes that “some of the chips and lesser parts have altered.”

Between the smaller improvements iFixit identified is the heat sink on the M1 has a bit rounded corners as compared to the squared off corners on the M2. iFixit also confirmed the slower SSD due to the use of a single 256GB chip on the M2 model versus two 128GB chips. 

Nevertheless, if you are hoping to get an M2 logic board and simply just swap out the M1, you simply cannot. Substantially like Luke Miani learned, iFixit discovered you can not only swap out the logic boards. Though they ended up able to get the notebook to boot, critical elements would not do the job owing to the “baffling” final decision to make the trackpad and keyboard incompatible with the more mature chip. iFixit notes that the areas are identical, so the challenge is likely due to software package constraints.

For that reason, iFixit feels the M2 MacBook Pro is a “missed opportunity” for Apple to introduce its initial upgradable laptop computer in a long time and “set the tone for repairability and eco-welcoming structure,” specifically due to the fact Apple is launching a new MacBook Air with an M2 chip this thirty day period with a new layout and specs.