Apple 13-Inch MacBook Pro Broken Down

We're still getting to grips with what the new Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch offers, but if you're less interested in benchmarks and more in seeing the notebook's parts spread across a bench, iFixi have the breakdown for you.  They've dismantled Apple's newly-promoted notebook, to highlight any differences between it and the last-gen unibody version.

The biggest difference, of course, is the non-user-replaceable battery, and the good news is that while it's certainly less accessible than in the old design, getting access to it isn't exactly a terrible chore.  The 10.95V 60Wh Li-Poly pack – rated for up to 7hrs use – can be disconnected by pulling off a wire and removing two screws.

Ironically, Apple describe the hard-drive as "user-replaceable", but it sounds like it's actually trickier to do that than it would be switch out the battery (Apple will charge $129 for the new battery and the labor involved in changing it).  Getting to the hard-drive takes a large number of screws; happily the RAM is more easily addressed.  Check out our hands-on with the 13-inch MacBook Pro here.