15” MacBook Air Teardown: Hype or Hot Air? 😮‍💨

The M2 MacBook Air has grown up and has a 15” summer bod to show off, with a hefty 22% more bulk, 26% more pixels, and a mere .2 mm increase in thickness. No butterfly keyboard, extra speakers, huge trackpad, and all-day battery life—plus speedy charging with a 65 W adapter—and you’re ready for a day at the beach. But sand, as we all know, is rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere—so let’s see just how repairable the MacBook Air 15” truly is. Use our Pro Tech Toolkit for all your repair needs! &utm_campaign=YouTube Stay Organized with our FixMat! &utm_campaign=YouTube Fix the Mac you already have &utm_campaign=YouTube Our new USB-C Fast Charger &utm_campaign=YouTube Chapters 00:00 Introduction - MacBook Air 15”: Specs & New Features 00:32 MacBook Air 15” X-Ray 00:42 Teardown: Opening the MacBook Air 15” 00:56 Disconnecting the Battery in the MacBook Air 15” 01:12 Removing the New Force Canceling Speakers 01:30 Removing the MacBook Air 15” Logic Board 01:52 MacBook Air 15” Logic Board Layout 01:57 Pro’s and Con’s of Passive Cooling in the MacBook Air 15” 02:08 FLIR Heatmap of the MacBook Air 15” Under Load 02:15 Removing the Battery from the MacBook Air 15” 02:32 MacBook Air 15” Battery vs MacBook Air 13” Battery 02:50 The MacBook Air 15” Gets a Supersized Trackpad 03:00 Scoring the MacBook Air 15”: Room For Improvement 03:21 Outro Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos! Follow us on Twitter: Check us out on Facebook:
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