MacBook Air Teardown Reveals iPhone Multi Touch Chip
One side effect of iFixit’s tear-it-apart-and-post-the-instructions policy is that it gets the scoop on the innards of any new Mac.
Latest on the slab is the MacBook Air. 88 screws and one bent screen bezel later, the iFixit crew discovered that the Air uses the same Broadcom BCM5974 touch screen controller chip as the iPhone and iPod Touch, which puts paid to any hopes of software hacks to bring the Air’s multi touch capabilities to other MacBooks.
Also of note is the tiny hard drive. According to iFixit, this is “the largest drive in this form factor currently available”, which means no swapping it out for the 160GB version found in the biggest iPod Classic. It looks like you’ll have to buy that Time Capsule after all.
MacBook Air [iFixit via Engadget]
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