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MacBook Air 13" Retina 2018 Teardown

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Continuing the repair-friendly (or at least friendlier) trend, we find stretchy adhesive pull tabs under these elongated speakers!

We don't love adhesive—reusable screws are nearly always better—but hey, pulling out this iPhone-esque stretch-release stuff is loads better than gooey solvents and blind prying.

Plus, the mere presence of stretch-release adhesive generally means that someone at least thought about possible repair and disassembly situations.

Are you there, Apple? It's us, iFixit. Have you heard our pleas?

Three (likely Goertek) MEMS microphones can be seen peeking out from underneath the battery tray.

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