Gallery: Apple Wants to Keep You Out, MacBook Teardown Shows

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    Stripped down, it's easy to see how few components make up a MacBook Air -- and how carefully-designed each of those thin pieces are. In all, iFixit rates its ease of end-user repair at just 4 out of 10. Although most of the parts are, in theory, easily replaceable, opening the bottom cover is very difficult without the right screwdriver, and many components are proprietary -- meaning you can't just find replacements at your local Fry's.
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    The MacBook Air's diminutive motherboard holds an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, running at 1.4GHz (outlined in red), and NVidia GeForce 320M graphics chip (orange), and 2GB of RAM (yellow). Needless to say, none of these are upgradeable.
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