iFixit photo of the Mac Air motherboard
iFixit has taken apart one of Apple's thin but heavily compromised MacBook Air notebooks. It seems you have to take out 10 screws to remove the base, then another 9 screws to extract the battery. "Replacing the battery is straightforward, but not something you'll be doing when your battery dies mid-flight," says the site.
The machine has 88 screws in all.
