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ams6110 on Aug 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community

Is it really for no other reason? Tiny phillips (cross) head screws are really easy to round out.

mikeash on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

Torx is a well-established standard that avoids that. By all accounts, pentalobe is worse than torx at this, and I haven't heard of any benefits.

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