Apple makes the M5 MacBook Professional’s battery ever so barely simpler to exchange

Identical to a minor improve in specs, Apple’s newest M5 MacBook Pro will get the slightest enchancment on the subject of repairability. Based on iFixit’s teardown, the M5 MacBook Pro is the primary of its variety that permits you to exchange the battery with out having to take away the trackpad. Nevertheless, Apple’s official technique of changing the battery nonetheless requires navigating an arduous course of that will steer most customers away.

For anybody keen to deal with the DIY restore, Apple’s Self Service Repair Store solely gives a Prime Case with Battery and Keyboard in its product elements catalog. For the reason that solely possibility to exchange the battery is shopping for this principal chassis half with each the keyboard and battery pre-installed, MacBook Professional homeowners will even need to disassemble an irritating variety of unrelated screws and {hardware} — apart from the trackpad — simply to exchange a battery. Nevertheless, iFixit confirmed that Apple included a barely upgraded 72.6Wh battery with the most recent MacBook Professional in comparison with its predecessor’s 72.4Wh battery.

It is minor progress for battery alternative, so iFixit nonetheless gave the M5 MacBook Professional a 4 out of 10 repairability rating, which means it is potential to do your self, nevertheless it’s “harder than it must be.” The most recent rating is a bump down from the M1 MacBook Professional that earned a 5 out of 10, however Apple has made incremental steps in direction of making MacBook repairs extra accessible.