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  • Lift the right speaker out of its housing and set it to the side.

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  • Using a spudger, gently pry up the white plastic slot and slide the metal c-channel to the right and away from the display.

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  • Use a spudger to carefully disconnect the microphone cable from the logic board. You'll want to work from side to side, and slowly wiggle the connector out of its socket.

  • Pulling on this connector vertically will break the socket off the logic board. This connector should be removed horizontally by gently pulling the microphone cable toward the screen while working a spudger between the connector and the socket.

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  • Lift up on the black right speaker cable with one hand, and deroute the silver microphone cable from the silver metal clip just above the right RAM slot.

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  • Deroute the silver microphone cable and gray display data cable from the tabs at the bottom of the subwoofer.

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  • Remove the single Phillips screw securing the ground loop in the display data cable located just above the Bluetooth board.

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  • Disconnect the two antenna cables from the Airport card, and the black inverter cable from the logic board. (Pull vertically on all three.)

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  • Remove the following 2 screws from the right hinge mount:

    • One 6 mm Phillips on the left side of the hinge mount.

    • One 10 mm Phillips on the right side of the hinge mount.

  • Lift the right hinge mount out of the computer.

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