Steps 1–33: Teardown
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Step 25
Removing the lower display bezel.
Step 26
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!
Step 27
Airport card (the pink is a thermal pad).
Step 28
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.
Step 29
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.
Step 30
The keyboard is secured by lots of tiny black Phillips #000 screws. We're removing ALL of them.
Step 31
OK, we got them all out. There are 56 screws on the keyboard, plus two on the power button.
This is looking promising!
Step 32
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.
Help!! How does one get from Step 24 to Step 25 and separate the display from the bottom case? Seems to be a lot of info missing here.
Airport card does NOT appear to be mini-pci express (and thus not easily replaced with a non-broadcom one). Can you confirm? Are the connectors proprietary?
Thanks for your guides!
HELP!
How the lower display bezel was removed? Which tools was used?
this should be added:
"Next remove the clutch cover by sliding it to the side and applying a gentle upward pressure."
Hello, Is the picture of the lower case assembly is the one that we can buy "as is" on your store ? I mean, nothing missing? I've to change the upper case of my MBP and I'd like to now if I can go to the step 28 and go backward from step 28 to step 1 with my new upper case. Thank you!
Does anybody know what type of LEDs are used there?
So, can you pop the keys off?
no
Hi can you get replacement keyboards? What is the part number on the keyboard? are all new 15" keyboards the same?
is there any website that sell only the backlid keyboard for the macbook pro?