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In our pursuit of self-preservation, we begin by disconnecting the power supply connector from its socket on the logic board to prevent any electrifying experiences.

A few more T10 Torx screws bite the dust at the hand of our bit driver kit, and the logic board is detached.

Stop—it's connector time! We remove a plethora (that's right, plethora, we're using our five dollar words) of connectors from the logic board, leaving only the brains behind the Thunderbolt port between us and the display's control center.

A few T6 Torx screws are knocked out to remove the connector cover, and the Thunderbolt cable is disconnected.

Interestingly enough, the Thunderbolt cable that routes into the display also plugs into a standard Thunderbolt socket on the logic board. Apple could have just soldered the cable wires to the board, but instead chose to implement a cover that prevents the cable from being detached from the logic board's Thunderbolt socket.

St. Damien's beard! The front of the logic board includes these stellar packages:

• Pericom PI7C9X440SL PCIe-to-USB 2.0 host controller
• L129NB11 EFL, which looks to be the Thunderbolt port controller (as viewed in the second picture)
• Analog Devices ADAV4601 audio processor
• NXP LPC2144 USB 2.0 microcontroller
• Delta LFE9249 10/100/1000 Base-T LAN filter
• SMSC USB2517-JZX USB 2.0 hub controller
• LPC 1114F

Sweet grandmother's spatula! The back of the board also contains oodles of chips:

• Maxim MAX9736B Mono/Stereo High-Power Class D Amplifier
• Texas Instruments LC573A D-type Latch
• Silego SLG8SP568VCK505 Clock Generator
• LSI L-FW643E-2 Open Host Controller Interface
• Broadcom BCM57761 Gigabit ethernet controller
• Texas Instruments NH245 Dual Supply Translator
• Supertex HV9982 3-channel switch-mode LED driver IC

With the logic board removed, we move on to the power supply board.

A few screws and connectors are all that are stopping us from removing the board.

We make quick work of them and the Flextronics power supply board comes free.

Hot pot of coffee! Let's see what the Thunderbolt Display's power supply board can do for us.

How about 250 watts of maximum continuous power -- is that enough for you?

• Fun science fact, the "thunderbolts" (AKA lightning) in nature can put out an average of 1,000,000,000,000 watts, that's 4 billion times the output of the Thunderbolt Display's power supply! But lets be fair...lightning bolts are much, much larger than this power supply and last only fractions of a second.

We see some fairly large speaker enclosures (well, for a monitor) near the side edges of the Thunderbolt Display and eagerly remove the screws holding them in place.

Wait! What have we here? Is that a built-in 1-inch subwoofer, as well?

The Thunderbolt Display comes with a 49 watt 2.1-speaker sound system, including a miniature subwoofer.

Basically, your display will sound something like this. Okay, so maybe not, but you will get some pretty decent sound out of this bad boy.

A couple screws and a single connector keep the HD FaceTime camera secured to the case.

Yoink! Out comes the camera and its ability to record video up to 720p, as well as its ability to support widescreen 16 x 9 aspect ratios.