But it really got people’s attention a year later, when it started showing up on the outside of the iPhone 4 instead of the traditional Phillips.
And back when it first started popping up, the pentalobe was pretty good at locking down Apple devices.Īpple introduced the pentalobe in their flagship 15-inch MacBook Pro back in 2009, securing the battery in place and presumably preventing DIY battery swaps. It has a shallow draft that makes the screw prone to stripping out. Mechanically, the pentalobe tends to be inferior to other screws. The pentalobe is a five-pointed, flower-shaped screw-and it’s famous for being Apple’s tiny security screw of choice. There are dozens of different kinds of security screws, but the pentalobe is perhaps the most famous of them all. While proprietary screws are licensed screws that often (but not always) have restricted availability, security screws are usually designed to be difficult to remove without the corresponding (usually uncommon) bit. Over time, manufacturers bred screws for other motives: to keep people out. When screws were invented in the Middle Ages, they had a single purpose: to fasten things together. Incredibly resilient creatures, bits are. Turns out the world is chock full o’ fantastic bits-if you know where to find them. And when he’d ask me for a screwdriver, I’d reply: “ Phillips or flathead?”įor the longest time, I actually thought there were only two screw bits. Whenever he tasked me to shine my flashlight on something for further investigation, I felt like the chosen one. We sang Simon and Garfunkel’s “ Cecilia” in perfect harmony while we worked. I’d follow him around with a flashlight in one hand, his toolbox in the other. When I was a kid, I begged my dad to let me help him with his weekend projects.
Pentalobe macbook screwdriver driver#
We’ll be posting one a day leading up to the launch of the Manta Driver Kit and Mahi Driver Kit on Tuesday, April 24. This is the fourth article in our ongoing series of posts on the history of screwdriver bits.
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