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MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown

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Next, we turn our attention back to the upper case.

Here's a big surprise: the circuit board attached to the back of the trackpad is identical to the one on last year's Air.

A new addition to the upper case is the network of LEDs attached to the keyboard backlight cable. A couple LEDs transmit light through fiber optic channels to evenly illuminate the keys on the keyboard.

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