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| [* black] Retina Macbook 2016 Repairability Score: '''1 out of 10''' (10 is the easiest to repair) |
| [* yellow] Those pesky tri-wing screws are gone, replaced with lovely standard Phillips screws—but tamper-evident hinge screws make you feel like a hoodlum for repairing your own machine. |
| [* red] Proprietary pentalobe screws continue to make opening the device unnecessarily complicated, and this MacBook still has the tricky cable routing from last year. |
| [* red] The processor, RAM, and flash memory are soldered to the logic board. |
| [* red] The battery assembly remains entirely, and very solidly, glued into the lower case. |
| [* red] The Retina display is still a fused unit with no separate, protective glass. If the display needs replacing, it'll cost a pretty penny. |