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iFixit's lab has completed its disassembly of the new 17" MacBook Pro, with photography of the process to be used in a new iFixIt teardown guide for that machine.

More on the 17-incher below, but first, If you are inclined to tinker with your Mac laptop and have never availed yourself of iFixIt's superb Fixit Guide series, you're missing out on one of the most helpful and useful free resources for Mac laptop and Mac mini owners on the Web:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/

Initially launched way back when as hard copy manuals for the WallStreet, Pismo, and Titanium DVI PowerBooks and others back in 2003, the iFixIt Guides are now exclusively available for free as online resources or in downloadable PDF format, and provide clear, easy-to-follow, and comprehensively detailed step-by -step illustrated instructions for opening up and disassembling these machines. "Mac repair for the masses." Just what the doctor ordered.

The guides rely heavily on attractively-reproduced color photographs to convey what you need to know, and what little text there is essentially amounts to photo captions. Each image identifies the action to take and highlights screws to remove. The Guides break the process of disassembling your PowerBook down into manageable steps, allowing you to approach the task incrementally.