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WATCH: M5 MacBook Pro teardown (Derek Wiley) | Theory ups the warranty of DLC loudspeaker controllers (via TheWire@SVConline) | Riedel's RefCam will debut at Men's EHF EURO 2026 (Derek Wiley)
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WATCH: M5 MacBook Pro teardown (Derek Wiley)
WATCH: M5 MacBook Pro teardown (Derek Wiley)
Repair experts iFixit have published their in-depth teardown of the new M5 equipped 14" MacBook Pros. The new laptop offers few new features other than a modest performance bump, a new architecture which doubles the maximum storage options from 2TB to 4TB and a substantial increase in SSD read/write speeds and memory bandwidth. However, iFixit documents Apple's surprising step towards repairability in its latest MacBook Pro.
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