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We found Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip right beneath the heat sink (no surprises there). A temperature sensor sits on an external board glued between the CPU and graphics chips. A high-resolution image is available here.

There are 16 RAM chips (eight one-gigabit chips on each side of the logic board) for a total of 2 GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

The large microchip in the center of the picture is a low power Intel North Bridge GS965 integrated graphics chip with the markings LE82GS965.

Three chips adjacent to the North Bridge/graphics controller have a semi-transparent blue epoxy covering them, as part of the HDCP hardware requirement for digital video signals.

The reverse side of the logic board. Many of these chips are for power management. A high-resolution image is available here.

You can see the second half of the Micron RAM chips.

We identified the Silicon Image SIL1392CNU HDMI video chip and Texas Instruments TPS51120 dual current mode synchronous step-down controller (power management).

We found a Broadcom BCM5974 touch screen controller chip on the interconnect board.

This is the same chip you'll find in the iPhone and iPod Touch.

This board also contains an SST 25VF020 Serial Flash chip, likely containing machine code for a nearby chip. There are a few CYPRUS chips nearby, one of which we identified as the CY7C638 low-speed USB peripheral controller.

The display assembly is attached to the case with 19 small screws:

• Four (relatively) large Torx which screw into the hinges.
• Thirteen #00 Phillips which hold down the clutch cover.
• And two #00 Phillips which screw into cable ground loops.

Apple made no compromises on the Air's display. Amazingly, the entire display assembly weighs only 465 g (slightly more than a pound), 34 percent less than the functionally-equivalent display assembly on the MacBook.

Unfortunately, getting into the display assembly isn't as easy as cracking open the lower case. There are no screws holding the front bezel to the display, only (very, very sticky) double-sided tape.

We bent the bezel a bit getting it off. Things aren't as bad as they were with the Titanium, but it's no cakewalk.

The LED display. The display is manufactured by AU Optronics and is model #B133EW03. The actual panel is less than 3mm thick.

Thanks to the LED display technology, there is no inverter board. A single cable provides the data and power to the display.

The antennas, perhaps the most under-valued components of a modern laptop.

Apple obviously expects everyone to be using wireless on the Air, so a substantial engineering effort went into designing robust antennas.