Unlike many here who have their own shop, I'm a contract worker jumping around larger corporate customers configuration & fixing their equipment.
Presently I service three large customers winding down from eight.
My largest is in the process of converting from Mac to HP laptop systems as they require USB-A ports in their systems for security key dongle's and other devices which prohibit the use of USB-A to USB-C conversion dongle's.
I will be starting up a mail-in service for MacBook's & MacBook Pro's beginning in 2018.
contact Info: dh_jaffe AT earthlink.net
The plastic dome covers the contacts so you can’t really blow air into the gap. The covers are glued down to the base 360 degrees.
@jeffsu - Can you post pics of the other side of the dome contact plate or tell us if the new ones are gold plated. Thanks!
I guess we’ll need to wait another year before we get the old reliable keyboards back! So sad …
Great research guys!
Only on iFixit would you get this level of detail!
Apple sold the 21’5 models in three configs HDD only (no SSD connecter), SSD only or a Fusion drive which has both HDD & SSD (has SSD connector).
Not in the 21.5” models only the 27”
IFIXIT did two articles on the flex cable issue in the 2016/17 with a follow up on the 2018 model which has a slightly improved design.
● The design flaw behind the MacBook Pro's "stage light" Effect
● Apples 2018 McBook Pro's Attept to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exits
Sadly you can’t fix this or offer additional structure without effecting how it works. Apple needs to fix this just like the keyboard issues which effect both the MacBook & MacBook Pro models which use the Butterfly design. Basically, the designs where over reaching the limits of the physics and use.
The VRM’s are undersized! But this is intensional! As the system does not have the cooling mass or heat dissipater design needed to cool the CPU & GPU effectively at the higher loads.
You’re mixing your eggs! White & Brown eggs both use the same constuction in building the shell. Thats the same here!
The display assemblies design is the same. Apple glued the cover and panel together so you can’t take them apart as in years past when we had a independent cover glass.
There is still a PCH chip the T2 connects to it accessing the PCIe lanes
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