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Apple最新的MacBook Pro是有史以来性能最好的,提供可选的8核处理器——MacBook里的一个首次——并且带来了新的神秘的键盘材料。正因为Apple没有解释新“材料”新在哪里,我们继续为揭示答案而欢欣鼓舞。是时候once again继续研究臭名昭著的蝶式键盘了!带上你的侦探帽,跟着我们拆解这款电脑吧!
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纸面上,2019年新款的 Macbook Pro 只是一次性能上的升级——但是性能究竟有提升多少呢?让我们一探究竟:
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拥有原彩显示技术的15.4寸LED IPS视网膜屏幕,2880x1800分辨率(220dpi像素密度),P3广色域
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2.6GHz 6核Intel Core i7(睿频达到4.5GHz),与之匹配的是Radeon Pro 555X GPU
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16GB 2400MHz DDR4 SDRAM
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256GB 基于PCIe的SSD
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802.11ac Wi-Fi和蓝牙5.0
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4个雷雳3(USB-C)接口
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“得益于”一体化的设计,主板上没有任何可以升级的硬件。一旦买了下来,你就只能使用这些芯片,直到它们光荣退休:
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第九代因特尔酷睿i7-9750H 6核处理器
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16倍速海力士 H5AN8G8NAFR 8Gb DDR4 SDRAM (共计16GB)
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AMD Radeon Pro 555X GPU芯片(独立显卡)
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4乘 Micron MT51J256M32HF-70:B 8 Gb GDDR5 显存(共计4GB)
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Apple T2 APL1027 339S00533 协处理器,被覆盖在1 GB Micron D9VLN LPDDR4 记忆芯片上
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东芝 TSB3226AW8815TWNA1 和TSB3226XZ2939TWNA1 闪存芯片(共计256GB)
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Intel JHL7540 雷电3控制器
You folks have probably explained this elsewhere, but can you confirm that the SSDs Apple is using are open-market consumer-grade drives? The rationale behind their high upgraded-drive pricing is that there’s some sort of added Apple-specific value. Is there any?
@moeskido1 They don’t use an SSD in the ordinary use of the term—their flash storage chips are BGA-soldered directly to the logic board (as shown in the image above) and SSD controller functions are handled by Apple’s custom T2 chip. The upside is very fast read/write speeds and low power consumption, with the obvious downside being the complete lack of repair, upgrade, and data recovery options. And it’s hard to ignore how it benefits Apple at the expense of their customers, since you have to pay through the nose to future-proof the storage capacity.
“16 GB of 2400 MHz DDR4 SDRAM”
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“4x Micron MT51J256M32HF-70:B 8 Gb GDDR5 RAM (4 GB total)”
Shouldn’t the RAM description in the layout breakdown be more like 4 4Gb chips for a total of 16 GB?
Hi shomizu9,
The 4GB Micron RAM is the video RAM, while the 16 GB SK Hynix RAM is the on-board system RAM.
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终于来到键盘部分了!让我们先回顾一下蝴蝶键盘的前世今生。
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首次亮相于2015款视网膜屏幕MacBook后,蝶式键盘也在2016年首次装配在了MacBook Pro产品线上(左图)。
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在2018年夏天,Apple推出了一个维修计划,私自将按键堵塞归咎于细小的灰尘颗粒,并且发布了经过改进的在按键下方配备一张硅胶薄膜以保护按键免受灰尘侵袭的型号(中图)。但不幸的是问题仍然存在。
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最近,2019款蝶式键盘按键保留了硅胶薄膜,但是稍稍改进了弹性金属穹顶使用的材料和覆盖在穹顶结构上的塑胶材料。
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现在我们梳理了来龙去脉,要开始一层一层的拆开2019款蝶式键盘按键的零件了。
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在最上层拆下来的是键帽。这种键帽设计巧妙,以至于让人一眼就能看出来哪个按键损坏了。
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这个白色的铰链式托架蝶式结构中用来控制按键运动的部分——保持稳定的上下移动它,千万不要四下晃动它,这样才能把它完美的拆下来。
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垫在托架里面的是一个透明的盖子,用来阻止污垢进入穹顶式托架,并且在每次按下按键的时候收缩。它中间的黑色圆点用来集中你敲击按键的力量。
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这个组合的主角是有弹性的锅仔片。它在按键按下的时候变形,将压力传递给六个底板上的触点,然后在你不按按键的时候将按键弹回原位。
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在锅仔片下面是六个金属垫片,其中任何一个垫片短路时都会触发按键记录器,以输入字符。
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总结一下,硅胶薄膜盖住蝶式键盘的机械结构以阻止污垢进入按键,把按键塞住。
Possibly, the change of material to a near-transparent material will allow more light to pass through? So the backlighting system can be brighter? Just guessing
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所以,今年改进了什么地方?首先,就是透明护盖的材料。
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2018款蝶式键盘中,这个零件的制造材料并不是透明的,有些发粘,甚至像硅胶一样粘。新款的键盘里,这个零件更加透明,摸起来更加光滑了。
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为了确认两种材料完全不一样,我们使用傅氏转换红外线光谱分析仪分析了这两个零件。特别鸣谢Eric Beaton和Cal Poly的材料工程部门的设备和专业知识!
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在把光谱与已知的聚合物材料对比以后,与2018款最匹配的材料的既不是芳香族聚氨酯,也不是一种TPU材料(当然,更接近TPU一些);与2019款最匹配的是聚酰胺(尼龙一类的东西 )。
Following the theory that heat accelerated key failure a switch to a different material would make sense if its melting point was higher. Some quick googling indicates nylon has high temperature resistance.
According to this site, nylon endures repeated flexing better than polyurethane.
Poly(acetylene) doesn't make a lot of sense for a component like this. I suspect that the 2018 material is probably a more conventional thermoplastic polyurethane. TPU has that tacky, silicone-like quality and doesn't withstand heat as well as nylon.
Makes sense! The match with the second-highest HQI was Cytor 7040 (as you can see in the screen capture)—which as you correctly pointed out is a type of TPU. We updated the teardown accordingly. Thanks for your comment!
A single key of my 2017 13” MBP failed, and the culprit turned out to be the black paint that helps the backlight diffuse more evenly throughout the keytop. It was the paint that had flaked off and jammed the key rather than any external dust. So look to the formulation of the black paint and its adherence to the type of plastic as an element in this problem. It appears that the plastic flexes when you press the key, and if the paint adherence is poor or the paint is too rigid, there is a non-zero chance it will break off and float around, causing trouble.
Interesting that they went with Polyamide, which is comonly known as Nylon 6. One problem with Nylon 6, which is used widely in under-the-hood applications in automotive sector, is that it retains moisture really well. Not sure if apple is using different materials based on different geographics (countries) because moisture retention can lead to swelling and with such small component, any kind of swelling can impact the mechanism.
Le matériau de 2018 et collant donc retiens les micros poussières celui de 2019 lisse les laisse glisser et en plus il est plus résistant et rebondi mieux en reprenant ça forme initiale.
If they used a special PA such as EMS Grilamid TR on the cover, moisture absorption should be no issue.
Sam Panton - 回复
PhD in polymer engineering here. I think the black dot that concentrates the force of your key press onto the switch shifts a bit due to fatigue or thermal expansion (or may even wear off), and the key either don’t register or registers twice. See this video which demonstrates the role of the black dot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwooQAg...
Changing the material to nylon will make the cover more rigid and less prone to deformation thermally or under load, which means that the black dot will remain in the center and the dome is pressed evenly.
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nob5MLYG...) shows that when the machine is hot, the keys make load noises as seen in the previous video mentioned, which indicates that temperature really does shift the black dot from the center.
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Liquidmetal?!
When the snap dome switches my company was using started to fail well before our 3 million cycle test goal, it turned out to be a couple of problems. We weren’t using a hard gold (alloy) plating on our PCB and the snap domes, instead of being the usual round shape, had legs much wider than the Apple snap domes.
The sharp corners of the legs on our snap domes wore through the gold plating, and the stainless/copper interface corroded so that we lost electrical contact.
Maybe the Apple snap dome legs scrape along the gold surfaces and either kick up contaminants that prevent electrical contact in the middle, or eventually wear through the gold and cause corrosion at the leg contact points. The corrosion only has to occur at the very end of the button travel (legs splayed as much as possible) to prevent electrical contact.
If we assume they’re pretty competent people at Apple, it would be easy enough for them to diagnose that and fix those corrosion and wear issues. So maybe it’s not that.
The center of the dome still has 2 contacts so we will still get double key presses. Wonder why this dome has a 1 center contact: https://i.imgur.com/LAM75Lz.jpg
I had a great uncle that worked on computers that ran typesetting systems back in the 1960s and 70s. They had problems with key-bounce back then. I forget what the solution was, but I think software probably smoothes out a lot of these kind of problems these days. I worked on a keyboard that dated from the late 1960s for a video titler system from a company called Telemation. The keyboard was a matrix of very large switches with magnetic reed switches and plungers with magnets on the ends. After 17 or so years, the reed switches became magnetized and you would just get a full screen of a single letter pressed.
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“When comparing these FTIR spectra to that of known polymers, the closest match for the 2018 model is polyacetylene with aromatic urethane side groups, while the 2019 model uses polyamide (commonly known as nylon).
What this doesn't tell us is, just what problem Apple's engineers tried to solve using this updated material. Send us your ideas!”
Spitballing, any debris would have an easier time sliding through the nylon, while the 2018 model has a more sticky material.
Hopefully making cleaning with canned air more effective.
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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.
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Was eagerly anticipating this teardown as soon as the tech press announced the new MacBook Pros with yet another keyboard iteration.
Question: How are the butterfly mechanism and plastic cover attached to the top case? Are they merely held in place by the silicone membrane?
I could not tell if the membrane had to be cut in order to extract the butterfly mechanism and plastic dome.
Those two keys you disassembled, can they be re-assembled and have them function normally without the key falling off?
The thing that really holds it all together is the clear plastic cover piece with the black dot in the middle. That component both holds the dome in place on the PCB and provides the pivot points for the hinged white bracket that controls the keycap travel. Unfortunately, it’s essentially riveted in place from the back with plastic pegs, and prying it out is usually pretty destructive. (In other words, don’t try this at home!) The silicone dust membrane doesn’t have to be cut however, as it’s mainly around the perimeter and not over the top of the mechanism.
Top side of the dome is pictured in Step 8. ;)
I guess we’ll need to wait another year before we get the old reliable keyboards back! So sad …
You’re quite the optimist there.
If this proves to be reliable, then it will be just another proof that it is a better idea to stay away from 1st (or even 2nd) Generations of any Apple product. I could make an arm’s long list, but to make a just a few examples: 1st Gen 15” Retina MacBook Pro Mid-2012 / Early-2013 - GPU Problems, 1st Gen MacBook Air - messy internal arrangement, low performance and overheating, 1st Gen iPad, 1st Gen iPhone, 1st Gen Apple Watch. In all these products and many more, it is better to wait 1.5 or 2 years for an update that is “reliable”, more powerful and what not.
With one of the best engineering teams in the world, that they still make big errors like this and pretty much refuse to take responsibility or at least make it so others can do repairs is sad.
I like my old Macs but want to upgrade someday, at this point I hesitate.
Thank you iFixit for all your hard work detailing the differences and advocating 3rd party repair!
I amazed at how apple engages in these obvious anti-consumer, anti-repair engineering “solutions” and still maintains their customer base.
I'll tell you what keeps me in the customer base: macOS.
I spent the 80s with Apple computers and from 1990 until 2014 on Windows PCs. I've been back in the Apple universe for 5 years, and it's like heaven compared to the ongoing, exhausting (it bears repeating — exhausting) war I had with Windows. The prospect of being able to build my own computers and customize them to my heart's content was irresistable in my youth. But creating an OS that could run on any of the infinite configurations of PC parts, in the end, made Windows too easy to break. Torvalds got it; Gates and company did not, at least for my money. The thought of going back to Windows makes me shudder.
Love the teardowns, and the repair guides to which I’ve referred numerous times.
That said, it really makes me sad to see Apple make iFixit become iPokeAroundInsideIt.
I agree with Ron Miller’s comment above. The macOS (as well as integration with iOS, is what keeps me with Apple. I used MS Dos and Windows operating systems from the 1980s to 2013 and finally had enough, so I switched to Apple. I do get frustrated with Apple, and this butterfly keyboard debacle increases the level of frustration. I guess I’ll continue with my 2012 15” retina MBP for at least another year. It’s still going strong, though a little slow at times.
Many thanks for the teardown, iFixit.
Bill Moore - 回复
I also Agee with Ron Miller. I went through numerous iterations of Windows machines, from my first 386, to bigger and much more competent desktops, work stations, and some powerful laptops. Many hesitate to go with Apple, saying they’re too expensive, and they are, upfront. But there’s more to cost than upfront cost. With Windows machines I spent innumerable hours upon hours, maintaining, updating, protecting, and repairing them. Even if we don’t consider material costs, the hours lost count as costs that far exceed any difference in upfront costs for Apple products. Since time spent is how we get money to buy things, it doesn’t much matter whether we spend employment time, maintaining time, updating time, or protecting time. All time spent equals cost we’ve spent for any product. So are Apple products really more expensive? I don’t think so.
As a long term apple customer…. i agree with you but there is a limit. These new keyboards have been failure prone for 4 years at this point. And i personally know people who have had multiple returns, the worst case being 3 returns inside 1 month of ownership for a friend who bought an original 2015 macbook and loved the machine if it wasn’t for the un-usable failure rate. He returned it and got a Macbook Pro 13” 2015 like mine. But now the alternative macbook keyboards do not exist.
Will most definitely NOT be buying until at least 12 months have passed and the failures have come out
In the meantime, my 2015 13” Pro soldiers on.
If you do not need the portability the current line of iMacs are a pretty good value. I needed a faster machine then my aging 2015 Macbook Pro because I’m doing more and more video editing so I got the 8 core iMac and never looked back.
Has anyone disassembled a malfunctioning switch \ switches?
Have metal fatigue, cracks, bends, etc. been observed?
Have torn plastic domes been found?
I’m probably in the minority but I love the butterfly keyboard in my 2017 15” MBP, particularly the low-travel and clicky feedback. Did this keyboard modification alter the tactile typing experience?
Ken Suzuki - 回复
I am wondering how 8TB of storage and 64GB of RAM can fit in one of these. There doesn’t seem to be much left over space. I would love to see pictures of a maxed out one.
I think it deserves a 2/10.
guardian10 - 回复
I wonder how many people suffered from the 2019 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard failures compared to the older iterations. It would interesting to hear some users' experience in this regard. After Apple released the 2019 16 inch MBP, we all know that model is less prone to have these kinds of problems, but I'm still curious about the last butterfly keyboard iteration of 2019.
Can keyboard (Key Cap) from 2017 be used on 2018 (A1990) EMC 3215, 15" with touchbar.
(Yes I know 2018 has plastic underneath..https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/19/app... )
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MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2017 Keyboard Key Cap Replacement. ??
And is it possible that after changing the keyboard and changing the battery, (at APPLE REPAIRER!), THE BATTERY CURRENT CYCLE DROPPED FROM 100% TO 87% AFTER CHARGE STATUS OF 114.
Full charge capacity (mAh): 6338
Charging status (%): 87% (from 100% approx. 1 year ago)
Information about condition:
Number of cycles: 114
Condition: Normal
I have found apple products very robust for my business. I work on heavy web design and ``Graphic Design`` work with no problems. In some cases I had to upgrade to more RAM or to SSD disk form buying products from ifixit.com and that extended the life of my MACs even more. I have an Imac and a mac book pro for more than 10 years now.
JCSL - 回复