Items tagged with Teardown
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 22, 2025
To showcase some of the improvements implemented in the PlayStation 5 Pro, Sony has posted an official teardown of the upgraded console. Performed by engineers Shinya Tsuchida, PS5 Pro Mechanical Design Lead, and Shinya Hiromitsu, PS5 Por...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Mar 15, 2025
It's fair to say that Apple's products are not known for being super-friendly to DIY (do-it-yourself) repairs, though not without the occasional surprise, such as the iPhone 16 that scored 7/10 by the folks at iFixIt. What about Apple's...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Mar 05, 2025
Apple's latest iPhone 16e has unsurprisingly gone under the knife by a popular tech repair site. The teardown found that Apple is making good on its promise to increase repairability to its devices with the 16e. In fact, the iPhone SE...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, May 25, 2024
The teardown experts at iFixIt have gotten their mitts on Apple's recently refreshed 13-inch iPad Air, the 6th generation model with a custom M2 processor inside that was unveiled during Apple's 'Let Loose' event earlier this month, and...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, May 20, 2024
Apple has recently released its long overdue refresh of the iPad Pro featuring the latest M4 Apple silicon chip. There is another hidden upgrade buried deep within the iPad that has only been revealed by opening up the device itself...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Feb 07, 2024
The Apple Vision Pro follows in the footsteps of a myriad of impressive headsets that augment one's reality, and aims to improve daily life. To separate itself from the pack, one assumes that the technology embedded therein has to be...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 29, 2024
Our collective desire for increasingly thinner, lighter, and more premium-designed laptops has, in many cases, come at the expense of do-it-yourself (DIY) repair and replacement options. Does it really have to be that way, though?...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 25, 2023
Try to hold back your surprise but Apple might not be the right-to-repair champion you hoped it might become, even after recently penning a letter in support of California's proposed right-to-repair bill. This is evidenced in a teardown of...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 19, 2023
Apple has taken its MacBook Air to the 15-inch category for the first time ever, having revealed the larger size option during its WWDC 2023 event earlier this month. That's great news for anyone who's ever wanted a MacBook Air but in a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 20, 2022
Apple isn't exactly known for designing and molding hardware gadgets that are easy to crack open and repair at home. To the Cupertino company's credit, however, it has made relatively recent efforts in line with the right-to-repair...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 04, 2022
No, you have not suddenly entered into a parallel universe despite what a recent teardown of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra might suggest. And what exactly does it suggest? Simply put, that Apple's own flagship smartphone, the iPhone...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Historically, teardowns of Apple's MacBook Pro laptops have not gone all that well, to put it nicely. Apple has not exactly been a champion of the right-to-repair movement, and more like a begrudging participant. Is the new MacBook Pro...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 07, 2021
Do you value your life? Then don't open up the Steam Deck. Do you care about the structural integrity of your shiny new handheld console? Then don't open up the Steam Deck. Do you want to keep your handheld's warranty intact? Then don't...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 28, 2021
The right-to-repair movement has been gaining momentum in the past year, but that doesn't mean every device is easy to crack open and fix, should the need arise. Naturally, we're curious where Apple's latest iPhone 13 series stands in the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 20, 2020
The latest generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air represent a major departure from past models—they are the first ones to incorporate Apple's own custom M1 silicon, in place of the Intel x86 CPUs the company had been sourcing for the past...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Oct 24, 2020
Smartphones have never been all that easy to repair, but that hasn't stopped owners from fixing (or attempting to fix) broken screens, dead charging ports, speakers that don't make sound, and a host of other issues. There's nothing quite...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 07, 2020
Building and tearing into a desktop PC is relatively easy, once you have done it a few times. Dedicated game consoles can be a little trickier, in part because of their compact nature, and proprietary design. Today's consoles are more like...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 24, 2020
Last week we posted our review of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G, a premium handset that delivers excellent all-around performance and has a gorgeous display. But one thing we did not do is disassemble the phone. We leave that kind of thing...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 05, 2020
The Galaxy S20 Ultra is Samsung's newest flagship phone, and it is absolutely brimming with high-end features, with a premium price to match. Some of those features are highlighted in a recent teardown of the $1,399 phone, including the...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Dec 03, 2019
We're used to seeing teardown of all the latest tech gadgets courtesy of iFixit with its high-resolution images and videos. Today, however, the teardown experts are giving us a look inside the original Sony PlayStation to commemorate its...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 31, 2019
No sane person would yank $249 out of their wallet or purse and proceed to flush it straight down the toilet, but if something were to happen to your Apple AirPods Pro earbuds beyond the warranty period, well, the outcome will be the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 24, 2019
We are planning to post a full review of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL very soon. In the meantime, a thorough teardown of the larger handset has emerged, revealing how Google went about designing its latest flagship from an engineering...
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