Folks over at iFixit have taken apart Microsoft's newly launched Surface tablet and have given it a better repairability score than the iPad. The iPad received merely 2 out of a possible 10 while the Surface ended up with a repairability score of 4. The famous gadget repair site found it rather difficult to remove the rear panel...
iFixit is renowned for its Apple product teardowns and free online repair manuals. Usually, after each new Apple product release, the team quickly takes the device apart, and the latest "victim" has been the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. (more…)
Last week's new iPod touch teardown from iFixit revealed a powerful device with poor repairability score of 3. Today, they have taken apart the new iPod nano which shows a device that has better repairability score of 5, though not as good as iPhone 5 which received a 7 out of 10 repairability score and a title of "most...
During their iPhone 5 teardown, folks over at iFixit said "it is the most repairable iPhone we’ve seen in a while" but unfortunately, they found the new 5th generation iPod touch much harder to get inside and gave it a low 3 out of 10 repairability score. Nonetheless, they did discover 512 MB of Hynix RAM inside its...
iFixit and HealthyStuff.org have teamed up to perform a chemical analysis of the toxics within 36 smartphones including Apple's iPhones. The iPhone 5 shows Apple has continued to follow through on their green initiatives as they submitted their components to X-ray fluorescence spectrometry: The HealthyStuff analysis demonstrates that Apple is actively reducing toxic chemicals in...
We have previously seen diffusion images of Apple's new dual core A6 processor, but now iFixit and Chipworks have teamed up to perform a much more thorough tear down of the new Apple-designed chip using an ion blaster, a process comparable to "sandblasting a chip to remove specific layers. Instead of sand, though, Ibe uses...
iFixit, notorious for their highly detailed device teardowns has just started ripping apart the latest iPhone 5 for your viewing pleasure. The team bought tickets and flew down to Australia to be the first ones to get their hands on an official iPhone 5, as documented on their twitter account. The iPhone 5 uses pentalobe...
When iFixit hears a new smartphone or technology-oriented product is released, they are known for completing full teardowns. Most recently they dove into the Apple TV and iPhone 4S. A normal iFixit teardown consists of a complete breakdown of all internal hardware inside the product. At the end, a repairability score is granted. Today iFixit has...
Folks over at iFixit have performed a teardown of the next generation MacBook Pro's Retina display to find out what Apple has done to make the new display so gorgeous and as expected, they were so amazed with its technology that they've labelled it "an engineering marvel". iFixit has found out that new MacBook Pro's LCD is essentially the entire...
iFixit has always shown the most thorough ways to teardown and rebuild all kinds of tech products. Today they post they entire teardown of the new Apple TV, revealing more details about the inner workings of Apple's latest media streaming device. In the image above, you can see a few highlighted areas. The areas are...
In a blog post from iFixit it's noted that the iPhone 4S features a tweaked proximity sensor, basically an infrared LED capable of detecting how close the user's face is to the screen. iPhones have always incorporated proximity sensors that prevent accidental input by turning the device display off during phone calls (when the phone is raised to the users...
The folks from iFixit have their hands on the iPhone 4S, and as always they are going to proceed to teardown the phone with surgeon-like precision. They started off by 'talking' to Siri: iFixit: "Siri, may we disassemble you for all to see?" iPhone 4S (Siri): "42" iFixit: "I didn't ask for the meaning of...
