{"id":20697,"date":"2022-07-21T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/m2-macbook-air-teardown-reveals-accelerometer-minimal-heat-management\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T00:09:39","slug":"m2-macbook-air-teardown-reveals-accelerometer-minimal-heat-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/m2-macbook-air-teardown-reveals-accelerometer-minimal-heat-management\/","title":{"rendered":"M2 MacBook Air teardown reveals accelerometer, minimal heat management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 99:single\/related:781888d0501e71d14fba691b3e61908a --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<ul>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-1-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-1.png\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-1-980x733.png 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-1-1440x1078.png 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1868337\">\n<figure style=\"height:733px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1868337\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      The MacBook Air after the teardown.                    <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-3-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-3.png\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-3-980x539.png 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-3-1440x792.png 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1868339\">\n<figure style=\"height:733px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1868339\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      iFixit didn&#8217;t find much in the way of a thermal management system in this machine.                    <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-2-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-2.png\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-2-980x550.png 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/iFixit-MBA-teardown-2-1440x809.png 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1868338\">\n<figure style=\"height:733px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1868338\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      An X-ray reveals the new speaker system.                    <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The M2 MacBook Air has been arriving to those who pre-ordered it over the past few days, and repair supplies vendor iFixit is among those who received a unit.  If you&#8217;ve been tracking iFixit&#8217;s work after other Apple launches over the past several years, you know what that means: teardown time.<\/p>\n<p>Like the 24-inch iMac before it, the MacBook Air is mostly full of&#8230; a lot of empty space.  The battery dominates the device&#8217;s interior, but beyond that, we&#8217;re mostly just looking at mechanisms for the trackpad, keyboard, and a small logic board.<\/p>\n<p>The teardown revealed thermal paste and graphite tape, but no active cooling and not even a heat spreader.  iFixit notes that the machine will likely run hot, which we found in our throttling tests.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Otherwise, it&#8217;s mostly business as usual for Apple laptops inside there.  iFixit notes that it appears to have an Apple-made Thunderbolt 3 driver instead of an Intel-made one, though, which is interesting.  Curiously, there is also an accelerometer, but it&#8217;s not clear what that is used for in the laptop.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M2 MacBook Air Teardown: Too Cool for a Heat Sink?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NjP-aAhHhnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>iFixit&#8217;s M2 MacBook Air teardown<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The M2 MacBook Air has a different speaker design than its predecessor, and iFixit got a glimpse at the new system.  The new Air lacks the perforated speakers on either side of the keyboard that we&#8217;ve seen before and instead pumps sound out through little slits between the case and the display.  iFixit also notes that the speakers look &#8220;small.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of these teardown articles and videos is to judge repairability, and there are some good signs here: For example, you only need to work four screws to get into the device.  But there&#8217;s still a harrowing tugging process at the start, and you must handle it carefully.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos and details, head over to iFixit&#8217;s teardown.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listing image by iFixit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MacBook Air after the teardown. iFixit didn&#8217;t find much in the way of a thermal management system in this machine. An X-ray reveals the new speaker system. The M2 MacBook Air has been arriving to those who pre-ordered it over the past few days, and repair supplies vendor iFixit is among those who received &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/m2-macbook-air-teardown-reveals-accelerometer-minimal-heat-management\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">M2 MacBook Air teardown reveals accelerometer, minimal heat management<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2025,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teardown-reveals-apples-latest-13-inch-macbook-pro-is-basically-last-generations-model-with-an-m2-chip\/","url_meta":{"origin":20697,"position":0},"title":"Teardown Reveals Apple&#8217;s Latest 13-Inch MacBook Pro is Basically Last Generation&#8217;s Model With an M2 Chip","date":"July 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple announced the new M2 MacBook Pro earlier in June with the same design as the M1 variant. 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