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…)
Chipworks has performed a detailed teardown of Apple's Lightning to 30-pin adapter and has catalogued the chips used within. It wasn't a surprise when they also found the same T.I. security chip first discovered in the Lightning USB cable, as pictured below: As seen with a previous adapter teardown, Chipworks emphasized it wasn't easy getting...
Chipworks has performed a teardown of Apple's Lighting cable and it has revealed there are four chips embedded within that in some part provide security to prevent it from being copied by third parties: Previously, we have analyzed security devices regarding medical printer media (armbands), printer cartridges, flash drive memory, batteries, and smart cards, but...
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...
The Lighting to 30-pin adapter was torn apart yesterday over at Gizmodo and the teardown revealed it's a hard unit to mess with. The exterior plastic shell is securely held in place with lots of glue and a dremel was required to open it up, notes Peter from Double Helix Cables: Once you get it open,...
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...
German blog iPhone-Garage must have received their iPhone 5 unit early because they have just posted a teardown ahead of the iPhone release. It isn't our typical detailed teardown that we see with iFixit every year, however it's still interesting to see how Apple organizes the internals. As seen above, the iPhone 5 outer-shelling is removed...
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...
Have you ever wondered about what's inside the iPhone charger? Its compact size might surprise you as Ken Shirriff's teardown reveals the impressive technology crammed inside the tiny 1-inch charger: Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals a technologically advanced flyback switching power supply that goes beyond the typical charger. It simply takes AC input...
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...
