The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be a shiny new 7 inch tablet with a dual core processor, but the tablet sure looks a lot like the 2010 NOOK Color. The new model uses the same case design as the original, but comes with more RAM, more storage, and a faster processor. But the folks […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire dissected: It’s mostly battery
The Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1 Ghz dual core CPU, and 8GB of storage. But you can find all that out by looking at the product listing on Amazon. The folks at iFixit had some slightly tougher-to-answer questions, like: what happens if you […]
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook 3G dissected
I just took my Samsung Series 5 Chromebook review unit out of the box a few hours ago, and one of the first things I noticed as that while there are a few screws on the bottom of the laptop, there’s nothing resembling an access panel for easy RAM or storage upgrades. The battery isn’t […]
BlackBerry PlayBook gets the tear-down treatment
You didn’t really think that a tablet which has received as much hype as the BlackBerry PlayBook would launch without somebody coming along and ripping the thing to bits and posting photos on the internet, did you? Of course not. This time the folks at Chipworks and iFixit are battling for the rights to cry of […]
Here’s what makes the iPad 2 tick
The Apple iPad 2 went on sale today, and a surprisingly large number of Liliputing readers (or people who found our poll anyway) say they’re interested in buying one. But you know who was near the front of the line at the Apple Store today? The folks at iFixit, who seem to have a hankering […]
iFixit Self Repair Manifesto: Take back the right to repair
The folks at iFixit have made a name for themselves by posting high quality pictures showing what happens when you take apart gadgets including the Samsung Galaxy Tab, iPad, and MacBook Air. But the company doesn’t do it just to create gadget porn: They do it to find out how to fix these devices. The […]
Samsung Galaxy Tab splayed on the operating table
It’s not like we haven’t already seen under the hood of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 inch Android tablet. Jkkmobile took one apart recently to see what makes it tick. But nobody does dissections quite like the folks at iFixit, and for good reason: They want to find out what it takes to repair broken […]