Now that Apple’s iPad mini is available for purchase for $329 and up, some folks are using Apple’s cheapest and smallest iPad… and others are busy tearing it apart. The folks at iFixit have posted a teardown guide which shows what the tablet looks like under the hood — and just how difficult it would […]
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Microsoft Surface RT dissected in iFixit teardown
Now that the Microsoft Surface RT tablet is now available for $499 and up, it was only a matter of time before someone ripped it apart to see what it looks like on the inside. The folks at iFixit did just that… and discovered that while the tablet’s not too hard to rip apart, putting […]
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iPod touch (5th gen) dissected, secrets revealed
Now that Apple’s $299 5th generation iPod touch is shipping, it was just a matter of time before someone ripped it apart to see if its true beauty lies on the inside. As usual, the honors go to the folks at repair shop iFixit. They’ve posted a complete teardown guide including some great photos and […]
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iPhone A6 processor is built by Apple’s frenemy Samsung
Apple and Samsung may be duking it out in courtrooms around the globe, trying to establish once and for all which company ripped off the others’ intellectual property. But that doesn’t mean the two technology companies can’t play nice from time to time. In fact, it appears that Samsung is manufacturing the iPhone 5’s A6 […]
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iPhone 5 dissected: 3 microphones, no turntable
Now that the iPhone 5 is available, people are getting ready to slap 5 rows of icons in the larger displays, make FaceTime video calls over cellular networks, and surf the web over 4G LTE. But if you want to know how the new iPhone 5 does what it does, the folks at iFixit flew halfway […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD dissected, proves (relatively) simple to fix
With a starting price of $199, it might be cheaper and easier to buy a new Kindle Fire HD 7 inch tablet if anything goes wrong on yours than it is to replace a broken touchscreen. But if you’re the sort of person that likes to fix things yourself, it looks like the Kindle Fire […]
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Vizio Co-Star Google TV box torn apart, dual core CPU uncovered
The Vizio Co-Star is a $100 Google TV set-top-box that lets you search the web, view online video, or run apps on your television. When Vizio introduced the device earlier this summer, the company told us all about the USB port, HDMI ports, 5.1 channel audio, WiFi, Ethernet, and Bluetooth. But we didn’t know much […]
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iFixit rips apart the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (literally)
Samsung’s new 10.1 inch tablet hit the streets last week. It features a speedy 1.4 GHz Exynos Quad processor, a 1280 x 800 pixel display, 2GB of RAM, and a digital pen for writing or drawing on the screen. But we knew all that, because Samsung told us. The folks at iFixit know that beauty […]
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Google Nexus 7 dissected, analyzed
The folks at iFixit provide instructions and tools for repairing your own consumer electronics devices. But over the past few years they’ve earned a reputation for posting detailed tear-down guides of the latest tech. Today’s entry? The Google Nexus 7 tablet. We already knew that Google’s new tablet features an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, […]
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iFixit tears open the iPad 3 to see what makes it tick
The new iPad goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia. So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad. The iFixit team […]