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There are a number of ribbon cables to disconnect from the logic board.

Remove the following 11 screws:

While our circles make it look like there are a lot of screws, this machine appears to have fewer screws than the previous MacBook Pro. These screws all attach directly to the solid-piece upper case, which should simplify maintenance a bit.

Removing the logic board.

We're noticing a lot of hardware similarities between the MacBook Air, new Macbook, and this MacBook Pro.

Apple has taken their new manufacturing approach to heart, and is using the flexibility it provides to standardize as much of their design as possible.

The top of the logic board, with the heatsink still attached.

Logic board top with heatsink removed.

The large chip on top is the Intel 2.4 GHz Montevina processor. It has 3M L2 cache and a 1066 MHz bus. Markings: 5827B493 SLB4N AV80577P8600

The other two large chips are Nvidia graphics chips.

We'll post part numbers as we identify them.

Logic board bottom.

Part numbers:

We'd love help identifying parts and chips. If you have any information, let us know: kyle (at) ifixit dot com.

Here are the two Nvidia chips! They occupy a significant amount of the logic board. There's no way both of these puppies could fit in a MacBook Air.

The first chip is marked 37N3C2 0836B2 PB6623.S03 MCP79MXT-B2. This is the GeForce 9400M, also serving as a northbridge.

The second, larger chip is marked U807B034 0827C1 NH7962.01W G96-632-C1. This is the GeForce 9600M GT, which has 32 processor cores and is capable of 120 Gigaflops.