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Edit by Andrew Optimus Goldheart

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-[* black] Changing the placement of two battery cells allowed for clever placement of the SSD in a plastic housing underneath the trackpad assembly.
+[* black] The most striking design change in shrinking the 15" whoosit to a 13" form factor is the rearranged battery cell placement. This allowed Apple's designers to cleverly tuckthe SSD away underneath the trackpad assembly.
[* black] The empty space next to the SSD is very un-Apple. It's not like them to leave big air gaps in their newest, sleekest designs.
[* black] Our first thought was that a standard 2.5" laptop drive might fit in this space, and it almost looks like this little nook was designed with that in mind.