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VorpalWay 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Filing the corners off my MacBooks

Wouldn't you want to completely disassemble the laptop first anyway, at which point the electronics would be disconnected from the metal parts anyway?

jaggederest 3 months ago [–]

You really can't fully disassemble current macbooks and put them back together without major tooling - the chassis is not just a wrapper, it's structural to the way they're interconnected, lots of glue and things like that.

falcor84 3 months ago | [–]

Sounds almost like a turtle's exoskeleton

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