Tag: iFixit

30 Years Later, iFixit Tears Down The Original Macintosh

Nowadays when popular new devices come out, you can count on iFixit to open them up and tell you all the gory details of their...
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iFixit Gives New Mac Pro A 8/10 In Repairability

iFixit has gone and given the slick new Mac Pros its traditional teardown, and they’re pretty impressed. iFixit primarily had good things to say about...
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iPad Mini With Retina Display Gets 2 Out Of 10 From iFixit

While the iPad mini with Retina display is excellent in a number of areas, repairability doesn’t appear to be one of them. iFixit has already...
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Google Nexus 5 Gets 8/10 From iFixit, Scores Two Points More Than iPhone 5S

If you like having the ability to open up your phone and fiddle with its parts in case something goes wrong, the Google Nexus 5...
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A Day After Halloween, iFixit Disembowels The iPad Air For Science

It’s finally on sale, and it’s finally getting ripped apart by the mad scientists at iFixit. The iPad Air is currently having its innards torn...
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 Given A 1 Out Of 10 In Repairability By iFixit

If tearing open and tinkering with tech devices is something you like to do, perhaps you should skip the new Surface Pro 2 tablet from...
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iFixit’s Teardown Of New 13-Inch MacBook Air Reveals Smaller SSD, Bigger Battery

Apple released a new 13-inch MacBook Air at Monday’s WWDC and, like all other Apple products before it, it’s been through iFixit’s now traditional initiation...
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iFixit Releases Repair Guide For Retina MacBook Pro, Estimates $500 To Replace Battery

iFixit recently did a complete teardown of the newest MacBook Pro with Retina display and dubbed it the “least repairable laptop” that it had ever...
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iFixit: Retina MacBook Pro “Least Reparable Laptop Yet”

iFixit, a popular gadget repair website, is well known for “tearing down” new Apple products as they’re released. In these tea downs, iFixit completely disassembles the...
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iFixit releases kit that lets you install dual hard drives in 21.5-inch iMac

The fine folks over at iFixit have released a new hard drive kit for 21.5-inch iMacs manufactured in 2011. The kit lets customers double up...
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iPhone 4S shows its guts, confirms 512 MB RAM

The folks over at iFixit have gotten ahold of an iPhone 4S early and in typical fashion have begun ripping its guts apart. The teardown...
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This is what the new iMac looks like inside

  Apple released a refreshed version of the iMac just yesterday, and today the guys at iFixit.com published a teardown of the 21.5-inch model. As...
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iFixit shows differences between CDMA and GSM iPad 2 models

The boys and girls at iFixit are at it again. The group has taken apart both the GSM and CDMA iPad 2 to learn about...
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iFixit murders the new MacBook Pro, then resuscitates it

Back in the day, during the time of mod chips and Sony PlayStations, I got a bit of a buzz from taking apart electronics and...
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iFixit releases an iPhone 4 liberation kit

iFixit has decided to rail Apple in an awesome video that they’ve put together to illustrate Apple’s underhanded attempts at replacing iPhone 4 screws with...
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iFixIt Dissembles 11″ MacBook Air

iFixIt, the website devoted to making technical repairs easy enough for anyone to attempt them, has taken apart the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air. Here are...
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Apple TV teardown from iFixit might tell us something about the iPad 2 logic board

iFixit is up to their usual antics, ripping apart the Apple TV before most of us have even gotten our hands on one yet. Man,...
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iFixit rips apart a shuffle: Not much to see here

The less that goes into these things, the more room there is for cheaper devices, or higher profit margins, depending what side of the device...
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