iFixit has completed a teardown of the second generation Nest learning thermostat. If you own one of these smart thermostats then take a look below at what it looks like when torn apart to bits. Inside, there is a Texas Instruments ARM Cortex A8 processor, 512MB of mobile DRAM and 2GB of NAND flash memory,...
The folks over at iFixit have completed a teardown of the Pebble e-paper watch, one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history, started by Canadian Eric Migicovsky, a former RIM employee. iFixit notes in their teardown there is no repairability scale yet on the watch, but they did say replacing parts would be difficult given...
Gadget repair site iFixit has just cracked open the new Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet, and have ranked it even less repairable than Apple's iPad 4, with a repairability score of just 1 out of a possible 10 (via TechCrunch). iFixit gave the iPad 4 a repairability score of 2 while the Microsoft Surface RT tablet had received...
Yesterday, we saw the very first unboxing and teardown video of the 21.5? iMac (2012), followed by performance benchmark scores for the device by Primate Labs. Today, teardown experts at iFixit have opened up the new iMac, unveiling the super slim 21.5" iMac's internals. The 2012 iMac (EMC 2455) features a super thin chassis and a quad-core Intel i5...
iFixit and Chipworks have performed teardowns of the latest 4th generation iPad (model A1458), with the latter promising a closer look at the A6X chip die markings in the morning. Here's a close up look at the A6X by Chipworks: iFixit's teardown reveals not a lot has changed internally in the new iPad 4, aside...
Apple's newest iPad Mini is currently getting the teardown treatment from iFixit, initial findings of which reveal a lot of design similarities with the iPhone 5. Furthermore, the dissection reveals that the LCD panel has been built by Samsung along with further confirmation of stereo speakers. The teardown shows that the device features a large metal plate similar to...