2010 Unibody Macbook schematic [pdf]

http://fast.partsdirect.ru/docs/models/19282_051-7537%20M97.pdf

by klausa • 13 years ago

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klausa• 13 years ago

It all started with a guy who came to ##apple and asked for help with repairing his computer.

Things... escalated quickly from there, mini-Streisand effect and heavy use of banhammer included.

http://pastebin.com/8CJLkdwm

tvon• 13 years ago

Probably the worst possible way Branes could have handled what would have been an insignificant incident to most.

nwh• 13 years ago

#apple on where?

asiekierka5• 13 years ago

##apple, FreeNode.

EDIT: +m has been lifted. Nobody is mentioning the issue at the moment.

acc003• 13 years ago

Looking at the log: thanks for reminding me why I no longer do IRC. All the banhammer dramas, all the time.

(This has nothing to do with information leakage or Apple.)

TheCowboy• 13 years ago

I'm not familiar with this channel in question, but I feel that my experiences on Freenode have been very positive as far as online communities go. Most people are still helpful and civil.

Though it's unfortunate that many channels, in general, seem to get corrupted and grow stale when carbon copies of this Brane-type of channel operator become part of the 'ruling party'.

incision• 13 years ago

>Looking at the log: thanks for reminding me why I no longer do IRC.

Precisely my feeling. It's been at least 12 years yet seeing that stereotypical smiley self-importance took me right back.

welterde2• 13 years ago

There are plenty of channels that have no operator and thus none of that banning, etc. drama (and there are of course +something channels, which cannot have any modes on them or modes on nicks inside the channel and thus always operate on the everyone decides for themselves who is annoying and who isn't principle).

shrughes• 13 years ago

It's a Freenode channel, unsurprisingly. Try IRCing elsewhere.

jarek• 13 years ago

> All the banhammer dramas, all the time.

Thank god there's none of that on HN.

joezydeco• 13 years ago

I'm a little confused here. Is this an official Apple-run IRC channel and Branes is an Apple employee?

mahgnous• 13 years ago

No, he's just a little troll op that thinks he knows things.

WinnyDaPoo• 13 years ago

Plenty more bans are being made. To be fair, the topic itself states: Breaking NDA, asking about warez, hackintosh, unsupported VMs or proprietary information = kickban. Obviously this is proprietary information, so it doesn't belong in ##apple.

asiekierka5• 13 years ago

To be fair, that was only added 15 minutes after the events in the pastebin. I was there for it.

miles• 13 years ago

The response (That will be reported to AppleCare Services. Good luck getting help from an authorised Apple service provider, you'll need it.) reminds me of this blast from the past:

Berkeley laptop thief is scared out of his wits by professor http://boingboing.net/2005/04/20/berkeley-laptop-thie.html

X-Istence2• 13 years ago

Thief didn't hand over the laptop ... not sure he was scared out of his wits.

ben1040• 13 years ago

Internet Archive version of the transcript, since the link in the article seems to go to a blog that's offline:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050424001416/http://blastradius...

mikeash6• 13 years ago

I'm severely tempted to join and start trolling these jerks.

ghshephard• 13 years ago

Tell me - is everyone else as nervous as I am clicking on a .pdf from a .ru domain?

asiekierka5• 13 years ago

No, but the Apple legal team has been informed about it so you're technically downloading illegal content.

andrewcooke• 13 years ago

how does what the apple legal team know change the legality of the download?

FireBeyond2• 13 years ago

The content may have been a civil breach of contract for the originator to disseminate, but you commit no breach nor crime by looking at it, as you have no non-disclosure agreement with Apple.

mikeash6• 13 years ago

What exactly is "illegal content"?

tripzilch6• 13 years ago

downvotes? I assumed he was making a joke? I normally try to not comment about voting, but in this instance I'm actually curious whether he was making a joke or not.

mikestew• 13 years ago

Apparently not, I clicked it. After a long wait all I get is a corrupt PDF...uh, oh.

revelation• 13 years ago

Rendered alright in the Chrome PDF viewer. It did have PRELIMINARY all over it, though.

acc003• 13 years ago

I don't think many people use Adobe Reader these days, and I am not aware of any serious PDF exploits targeting other clients.

danjessen• 13 years ago

maybe not alot of the hacker news readers .. but alot of regular people do use Adobe Reader ...

seanmcdirmid• 13 years ago

I use Chrome to view PDFs, it isolates the process and doesn't support as many "extensions" as reader, so it is much safer. Works very well.

zurn2• 13 years ago

It's the ones you're not aware of that you need to worry about ;)

Apple PDF and Evince/Poppler are vulnerability-prone C/C++ codebases and have had bugs.

Chrome and Firefox builtin PDF readers are your best bet...

bliker• 13 years ago

how big deal is this?

(serious question)

asiekierka5• 13 years ago

Apple Legal is just going to C&D them and the leaker.

sargun• 13 years ago

You can't stop the signal. But to answer the original question, this really isn't very interesting.

X-Istence2• 13 years ago

Not a big deal at all. Schematics only show how to connect the various bits and pieces. Maybe there is one or two things that were secret before, but anyone with a little time, a scope, a voltage meter and some time could have figured out how most of it connected anyway.

welterde2• 13 years ago

And they also show what those bits and pieces are, which is actually quite a big deal, because the components often have non-helpful labels on them (like "Apple" "some internal ID"), which makes it almost impossible to find datasheets on them or source them (say you want to replace a component on the board that you suspect is broken).

So not really sure what would have been a big deal if not this..

renanbirck• 13 years ago

I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics.

At most they might be useful for someone looking to do reverse engineering.

chm• 13 years ago

China.

hnperson98• 13 years ago

It's all over the Internet right now.

pooriaazimi• 13 years ago

Why is their Apple logo (printed at the bottom of every page) so horrendously ugly? http://d.pr/i/dCoo

zdw• 13 years ago

Probably because these were designed to be printed on a plotter, not a conventional printer, and thus line art is the standard.

NDizzle2• 13 years ago

Snitches get stitches.

NDizzle2• 13 years ago

I realized this is getting downvoted because I didn't put it up in the IRC thread, where I originally attempted.

An uptight taddle-tale handles something poorly in IRC. Completely textbook.

snake_plissken• 13 years ago

So now, I will build a Mac Book pro out of old Pentium IIIs and 128MB DIMMs. I knew those spare parts collecting mouse poop in my parent's garage would come in useful.

js2• 13 years ago

And to think, the Apple ][ shipped with a manual that included schematics for the p/s, keyboard, and motherboard. As a 10 year old geek this manual was gold.

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/misc/a2_reference_manual_alt.pdf

yuhong2• 13 years ago

So did the original IBM PC BTW.

stevedub• 13 years ago

What other than repair is this really good for?

2010 Unibody Macbook schematic [pdf]

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