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  • Removing the lower display bezel.

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  • Removing the Airport card.

  • Disconnect the antenna connector and the data cable.

  • Remove the two screws.

  • The Bluetooth cable disappears into the display, and our sources tell us that it's sandwiched between the glass and the metal case. This means that if your Bluetooth goes out, you may have to replace the entire display!

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  • Airport card (the pink is a thermal pad).

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  • The "unibody" upper case assembly.

  • This case assembly includes the keyboard, glass trackpad, and ribbon cables.

  • While the manufacturing of the case is sexy, our sources say that Apple is treating this as a single replaceable part. This means that if you break a key on the keyboard, you'll have to replace the entire upper case. That could get very expensive.

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  • In an attempt to save a lot of people a lot of money, we're going to try removing the keyboard from the upper case.

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  • The keyboard is secured by lots of tiny black Phillips #000 screws. We're removing ALL of them.

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  • OK, we got them all out. There are 56 screws on the keyboard, plus two on the power button.

  • This is looking promising!

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  • We got it off! Phew. It took about 15 minutes to remove all the screws.

  • It looks like users may be able to repair their own keyboards after all! Great news for the heavy-handed and spill-prone.

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