How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble an Apple/Macintosh Laptop or Notebook

Do you want to repair your Apple Computer Inc. laptop or notebook? Here is a collection of free take apart instructions, disassembly pictures or dismantling videos, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for Apple Computer Inc. laptops and notebooks. If you have written a repairing guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Apple iBook (1. Generation)	How to repair the power connector (in French).
Apple iBook (1. Generation)	A complete step-by-step illustrated dissection and surgery.
Apple iBook	FurBook: are you tired of your boring naked laptop? get furry!
Apple iBook	TronBook: how to remove the paint and spray a blue color on.
Apple iBook	Clarus: How to enhance the original Apple logo.
Apple iBook	ePicFrame: turning an iBook with a broken hinge into a digital picture frame.
Apple iBook	A picture from inside the battery.
Apple iBook	How to convert an iBook AV cable to iPod AV cable. Includes pinouts of both.
Apple iBook	Description of a dead display and broken hinge wire disaster.
Apple iBook	A nice little painting of the cover lid.
Apple iBook	Hard drive and CD removal tips, including helpful pictures.
Apple iBook (BlueBerry)	This page shows how to get at and possibly replace the hard drive.
Apple iBook (White)	Tips, tricks and pictures about cleaning the keyboard.
Apple iBook (BlueBerry)	How to replace a broken plug.
Apple iBook (Blueberry)	FrankenBerry iBook (case, light, hard drive mods & upclock), add a white halo logo to the lid.
Apple iBook (BlueBerry)	Creating a Digital LCD Picture Frame.
Apple iBook 2001	Accelerate your MAC: Overclocking Guide 100Mhz bus speed, 600MHz CPU Speed.
Apple iBook	Trauma surgery on a laptop, repairing a fallen apple.
Apple iBook 500	Illustrated hard drive replacement instructions [PDF].
Apple iBook 14''	How to turn your laptop into a picture frame.
Apple iBook	Moddings, overclockings and disassembly (in French).
Apple iBook	Taking apart an old, broken notebook and creating a digital picture frame with wireless network connectivity.
Apple iBook Tangerine	Tearing apart instructions to install a hard disk.
Apple iBook Clamshell	From a clamshell to digital picture frame.
Apple iBook G3 Clamshell (Indigo)	Bezel modification for new optical drive.
Apple iBook G3 Clamshell (Indigo)	PCMCIA mod: how to use a cheap Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card (or any other card with Lucent chip) instead of an AirPort card. An illustrated explanation.
Apple iBook G3 Clamshell	Complete repair, upgrade and take apart guides.
Apple iBook G3 Clamshell	DC power plug disassembly.
Apple iBook 600	A beautiful painted laptop lid (in French).
Apple iBook Dual-USB	How to mod, overclock and disassemble (in French).
Apple iBook Dual-USB	An overclocking HOWTO with pictures (in Japanese).
Apple iBook Dual-USB	An overclocking HOWTO with pictures.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	Detailed hard disk upgrade instructions and pictures.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	A repainting for fun & and profit.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	A hard drive replacement and overclocking guide.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	Sticky hinge and flickering screen repair. How to check the backlight control cable with an oscilloscope.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	FlowerBook: a beautiful lid painting.
Apple iBook G3 12''	A SkyBook paint mod.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	Upgrading the original 10GB hard disk.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	The i-Tablet: how to turn an iBook into a Tablet-PC.
Apple iBook G3 Dual-USB (White)	"Pimped-up" iBook: hard drive replacement instructions.
Apple iBook White	Take apart picture gallery with a useful screw handling scheme. Hard disk replacement.
Apple iBook	Fun with a sandblaster or testing ways to repair and paint a gummed-up clamshell iBook plastic shell.
Apple iBook G3	Complete disassembly with pictures (in French).
Apple iBook G3	Tired roadwarrior takes deskjob: converting an iBook with bent hinges it into a compact, kiosk style computer.
Apple iBook G3	Here's the result of some spray paint, sandpaper, and a little creativity, presenting: steelBook.
Apple iBook G3	Disassembly guide with pictures (in Japanese).
Apple iBook G3 466 SE Indigo	CyBook: how to add some blue LEDs to the case.
Apple iBook G3	An AirPort compatible PC card that fits inside iBook. This specific Buffalo (Melco, WLI-PCM-L11GP) card has the same chip as AirPort card does.
Apple iBook G3	How to fit a DIY airport into the notebook.
Apple iBook G3	Zen and the art of keyboard maintenance. How to take all the caps off and fix a broken keyboard cable.
Apple iBook G3	How to modify the color of the Apple logo on the back of your iBook. This process is surprisingly simple. By simply removing the back of your iBook's screen you are enabled to place colorful plastic behind the glowing Apple on the back of your screen. Read on for a step-by-step tutorial complete with pictures to guide you.
Apple iBook G3 500 (IceBook)	AirPort card mod: how to fit a Buffalo AirCard (or a card with the same Lucent chipset) into the case.
Apple iBook (G3 and G4 White)	RAM replacement instructions and illustrations.
Apple iBook G4 800MHz	Replacing the hard drive and recovering of the built-in mike.
Apple iBook G4	Deep insights: a skeleton modding.
Apple iBook G4	Everything you need to know about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple iBook G4	Keyboard blues: make a hybrid keyboard of a G3-iBook-keyboard and G4-iBook-keyboard.
Apple iBook G4	Hard disk upgrade.
Apple iBook G4	Sliced Apple: adding internal BlueTooth. Antenna modification for improved BlueTooth range. Interval hard drive replacement. Adding a SuperDrive (CDRW/DVD-ROM).
Apple iBook G4	DVD-R (SuperDrive) upgrade (in German).
Apple iBook G4	Dissection pictures and instructions (in German).
Apple iBook G4	Selfmade AV cable to connect to a TV.
Apple iBook G4	Zen and the art of keyboard-maintenance.
Apple iBook G4	Giving a nice color to the notebook.
Apple iBook G4	How to get a color modded machine.
Apple iBook G4	Hard drive replacement.
Apple iBook G4 12''	Put your iBook on steroids: A step-by-step to turn your iBook 12'' into a PowerBook 12'' killer.
Apple iBook G4 12''	Take apart guide with illustrations.
Apple iBook G4 12''	Take apart instructions, adding a 2x SuperDrive (DVD burner).
Apple iBook G4 12''	Adding a 4x SuperDrive (DVD burner).
Apple PowerBook G4 12''	A movile about a MCE Tech 16X Dual Layer Superdrive upgrade, new 100GB Hard Drive, and custom-made colorful rainbow logo.
Apple iBook G4 12''	Adding internal BlueTooth(tm) support for less than 10$ using a Billionton USB dongle (without rendering an external USB port useless).
Apple iBook G4 12''	Restoration of a broken notebook by doing some soldering repairs of the motherboard.
Apple G4 12''	Building an iBook from broken parts.
Apple iBook G4 800 12''	A step-by-step hard disk replacement tutorial (in French).
Apple iBook G4 14.1'' 1GHz	How to add an internal USB BlueTooth dongle.
Apple iBook G4 14.1''	LCD replacement guide.
Apple iBook G4 1.33GHz	A logo color change tutorial.
Apple iBook G4	How to remove the display and change the color of the Apple logo.
Apple iBook G4	How to fix an iBook G4 screen using an iBook G3 display.
Apple PowerBook and iBook misc. models	Detailed disassembly instructions, a great site.
Apple iBook/PowerBook	Power jack and power supply schematics.
Apple iBook G4, PowerBook G4	Repair your macintosh power cord: Tired of Mighty Apple charging you beaucoup $$$ for those badly designed power adapters which break all the time? Repair it yourself.
Apple MacBook 13''	Swapping hard drives on the 13-Inch MacBook, a step by step guide to replacing the stock drive.
Apple MacBook 13''	A step by step guide to upgrading memory.
Apple MacBook	An origami solution to the squishy trackpad button problem. How to fix the trackpad with paper.
Apple MacBook	Illustrated step-by-step take apart tutorial.
Apple MacBook	Beneath the battery bay: installation of RAM, which is a new procedure that involves two little lever arms. Upgrade of the hard drive, which actually resides in the far left corner of the battery bay! As a result, the MacBook is probably the most easily upgradeable Mac laptop ever [Video].
Apple MacBook	Memory and harddrive upgrade guide [Video].
Apple MacBook Pro	Performing a complete disassembly, with pictures.
Apple MacBook Pro	Biometrics: how to add a Sony Puppy FIU-600 fingerprint-reader.
Apple MacBook Pro 17''	Take apart picture gallery.
Apple PowerBook	Expansion Bay Module - EBM upgrades and hacks.
Apple PowerBook	Marking a set of batteries by laser etching, to avoid confusion when switching the batteries.
Apple PowerBook	Laser Etching. The appropriate files, laser settings, and methodology for putting your tattoo on your powerbook.
Apple PowerBook	SCSI drives and IDE adapters.
Apple PowerBook	On death and dying: reconciling yourself to hard drive failure.
Apple PowerBook 1xx	Memory upgrade, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 100	Opening and dissecting.
Apple/Macintosh Powerbook 100	How to build a monochrome digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 180	Illustrated how to replace a laptop screen.
Apple PowerBook 180c	Using a laptop LCD with a VGA connector.
Apple PowerBook Duo 270c/280c	Building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook Duo 2xx	Memory upgrade, keyboard exchange, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, backup battery replacement (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook Duo	Overclocking, cleaning the keyboard, changing the CAPS LOCK light to a red LED, adding a hard drive activity light, adding a ADB port in place of the modem, repairing the AC adapter port.
Apple PowerBook 5xx	Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange, modem installation, CPU upgrade (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 520 & 540	Modifications and fixes for FPU, battery cells and more.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Take apart pictures, overclocking. Examination and Repair of a Floppy Module. Examination and Repair of a CD ROM Module (12x). Putting in a 24 x CD ROM.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Take apart pictures (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 1400	Painting instructions for the laptop.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Doing a laptop to digital picture frame conversion.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Souping Up A PowerBook 1400 - Not; And Some Ruminations On Laptop Longevity.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 1400	This one isn't really Mac stuff it just happens to be a PowerBook that has been bejeweled. I guess you could glue LEGO(tm) to any computer that strikes your fancy.
Apple PowerBook 1400C	Building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 1400C	Detailed HOWTO about making a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 2400	RAM Installation Guide.
Apple PowerBook 2400	Quick take-apart for the intrepid who want to replace the hard drive or add a G3 upgrade themselves (includes a video).
Apple PowerBook 2400C	Pictures of a selfmade RAM upgrade (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 2400C	Doing a wrong disassembly.
Apple PowerBook 2400C	Upgrading memory, hard disk and CPU (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 2400C	Doing a wrong disassembly (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 2400	Step-by-step take apart and CPU upgrade guide.
Apple PowerBook 2400	Key-cap replacement instructions.
Apple PowerBook 3400	Taking the notebook completely apart and building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 3400c	Laptop to Digital Picture Frame conversion, ultimate picture frame resource.
Apple PowerBook 3400	Changing cpu-to-bus ratio settings.
Apple PowerBook 3400/G3	Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 5300	Power jack replacement.
Apple PowerBook 5300	Upgrading RAM and hard disk FAQ.
Apple PowerBook 5300	Inside Out: A visual guide to the major motherboard features.
Apple PowerBook 5300	Overclocking manual and resistor schematics.
Apple PowerBook 5300	Disassembly and power connector repair.
Apple Powerbook 5300	Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks.
Apple PowerBook 5300/190	Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard replacement (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 5300CS	How to use the notebook with broken hinges and without display. Illustrated take apart and ethernet card installation guide.
Apple PowerBook 12''	Pictures of a detailed disassembly (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook 12''	Taken apart reassembled and alive.
Apple PowerBook G3	A galore of information about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple PowerBook G3 14.1''	LCD replacement, you can do it yourself.
Apple PowerBook 15''	Pictures of a detailed disassembly (in Japanese).
Apple Powerbook G3 Pismo	Take apart instructions.
Apple PowerBook G3 (Pismo, Lombard)	Upgrade instruction for RAM and hard drive.
Apple Powerbook G3 Lombard	Take apart instructions.
Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard	The FrankenBook story about ripping of a completely damaged notebook.
Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet	Take apart instructions.
Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet	Fix loose sound ports, display hinge and the power plug using a tongue depressor. Replacing the original hard disk with a bigger one.
Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet	Fix the hard to press clicker.
Apple PowerBook G3/1998 Wallstreet/Mainstreet	How to increase the clock speed (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet	Re-using an old notebook by building a digital frame for pictures.
Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet	Broken hinges, detailed instructions on how to fix that wobbling screen.
Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet	Taking apart the CDRW/DVD combo drive.
Apple PowerBook G3 WallStreet	How to do a display hinge repair.
Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet [1998]	Hinge/Clutch Repair: this PowerBook series commonly suffers from worn out LCD hinges. The main symptom of this problem is an LCD screen that just won't seem to stay in the upright position. The most likely cause of this is a broken or worn out hinge, or clutch assembly inside the machine.
Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo	RAM upgrade, top slot memory installation.
Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo	RAM upgrade, bottom slot installation.
Apple PowerBook G3 1400	Upgrade (Exclusive Photos).
Apple PowerBook G3 Series	Worried about an overly flexible keyboard.
Apple PowerBook G3 [1997] Kanga	How to increase the clock speed (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G3 [1997] Kanga	How to increase the clock speed.
Apple PowerBook G3 Kanga	How to fix the powersource's connector by soldering..
Apple PowerBook G3 [1998]	Pictures from a memory upgrade (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G3 [1999] Lombard	How to increase the clock speed (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G3 [2000] Pismo	How to increase the clock speed (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard	A story of an overclocking surgery.
Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard	A story of an overclocking surgery (in French).
Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard	Fixing a broken fan by putting it into a PCMCIA card.
Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo	Surgery of a fallen down and broken notebook.
Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo/Lombard	Replace the cells in the battery.
Apple PowerBook G3	Turning a laptop into a picture frame, includes take apart tutorial and pictures.
Apple PowerBook G4	DIY Corner: an inexpensive replacement for lost feet.
Apple PowerBook G4	Plenty of great information about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple PowerBook G4	Bringing Back the Rainbow Apple Logo 12 Inch Powerbook Style.
Apple PowerBook G4	65W AC power adapter repair.
Apple PowerBook G4	Inside the 65W power supply, an attempt to repair.
Apple PowerBook G4 DVI	Disassembly and exploration (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G4	Take apart picture gallery.
Apple PowerBook G4 AlBook	Hard Drive Swap: What Not To Do.
Apple PowerBook G4 AlBook 12''	Opening instructions and pictures, hard disk replacement (in German).
Apple PowerBook G4 AlBook 12''	Hard drive swap.
Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium	Take apart instructions.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium	Adding an external pigtail wireless LAN antenna.
Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium	How to repair broken $1600 hinges for ONLY $10! .
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium	Fixing a broken LCD backlight.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium	How to replace broken display hinges and cables.
Apple PowerBook G4	Replacing and fixing the display hinges.
Apple PowerBook G4	Speed bump from 400 to 500.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	Building an external antenna.
Apple G4 Titanium (TiBook) 667 DVI	Replace a toasted chip.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	Broken display hinges repurposed as a compact desktop Mac. New G5 iMac to look something like this?
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium	Adding a BlueTooth adaptor to the inside (in Italian).
Apple PowerBook G4 Titianium (TiBook)	Display take-apart, re-assembly and various other related infos.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titaninum (TiBook, 1. Gen.)	Hanging Laptop Digital Painting: Take your old laptop, matte it, frame it, and convert it into a hanging framed digital lcd screen to do with as you like.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	Under the Hood: how to disassemble the PowerBook.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	TIre wall - a Ti-Book with a broken hinge turned into a wall mounted firewall.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	How to take apart and paint the notebook.
Apple PowerBook G4 15''	Poison Powerbook: how to make the backlit keyboard glow red, Apple logo color mod, keyboard cleaning and take apart instructions.
Apple PowerBook G4 15'' (Aluminium)	Complete disassembly guide.
Apple PowerBook G4 15'' (Aluminium)	Fixing the popping lid latch problem.
Apple PowerBook G4 15'' [2004]	Opening and reducing the horrible, loud clicking and ticking noise of the equipment.
Apple PowerBook G4 17''	Need for speed: Cracking open the notebook.
Apple PowerBook G4 AlBook 1GHz	Laptoposcopic surgery, a complete take apart guide with pictures.
Apple PowerBook G4 Aluminium (AlBook 1.25GHz)	Collinear WiFi antenna: external miniature collinear WiFi (802.11b/g) replacement antenna for Apple Powerbook (Al, 1.25GHz).
Apple PowerBook G4 12''	Just a few quick cuts to modify a 12" Powerbook to take an external antenna.
Apple PowerBook G4 17''	A disassembly picture gallery (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook G4 17'' 1.33GHz	Need for speed: Cracking open the notebook and replacing the hard disk.
Apple PowerBook/iBook	Hard Drives: The Essential Upgrade Guide - a survey of interfaces, maximum storage capacities and maximum drive heights.

Manufacturer Information

Hardware Maintenance Manual, User Guide, Service Manual

Apple itself offers official User Guides but unlike Service Manuals they only provide simple technical information, such as RAM upgrade guides. Other entry points to technical documentation: Support Site Map: Hardware & Software Product Support and a survey of Apple Customer-Installable Parts - CIPs. CIPs are replacement parts and memory upgrades that you may install using instructions available from this page. They require a moderate amount of technical ability to install using common tools, such as a screwdriver. Registered users may also get service manuals.

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