Yes, we know that Apple’s new iPad Pro has more than 90 magnets (which is why you can stick it to your fridge, if you like), but knowing is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another.
Luckily, the good people at iFixit have fought t…
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MacBook Air teardown: What a difference three years make
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Now that Apple’s new MacBook Air has hit the stores, repair specialists iFixit have immediately cracked it open to see what’s inside.
And frankly, if you’ve seen some of the teardowns of recent MacBooks, you won’t see too many surprises here. The new Air is a tightly packed machine that requires lots of specialized tools and patience to open and repair.
But if we compare apples to apples — that is, the new MacBook Air with the last version of MacBook Air, which launched in 2015 — the differences are substantial. Check them out below: The new Air is on the left. Read more…
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Apple Watch Series 4 teardown reveals big changes on the inside
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Apple’s iPhone XS, as good as it is, isn’t all that different from its predecessor, the iPhone X — even on the inside.
But the company’s Apple Watch Series 4 is a major update compared to Series 3, and it’s all the more apparent when you tear it down to bits.
We already knew that the Watch 4 is slimmer compared to Watch 3, with a bigger screen and new heart-rate sensor. In this detailed teardown, conducted by iFixit, we see just how different the two devices are; just look at the x-ray photo, below.
Talk about radical changes. Apple Watch Series 4 on the left, Series 3 on the right.
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Teardown of iPhone XS reveals new, L-shaped battery
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Now that Apple’s iPhone XS and XS Max are available for purchase, they’ve already been dropped, drowned, and of course — torn down.
The teardown experts at iFixit have disassembled the iPhone XS and its bigger sibling, the iPhone XS Max, in one go. And though the phones’ internals are similar to the guts of last year’s iPhone X, the teardown does reveal a few interesting new details.
Remember that odd, L-shaped, two-part battery from the iPhone X? In the iPhone XS, it’s still L-shaped, but it’s now a single, unbroken part. This didn’t help capacity much, as the iPhone XS’ battery capacity lags behind the iPhone X by a few milliamp-hours (mAh), and the teardown reveals why: The single-part battery has a notch of sorts, which — according to this 2016 Apple patent — serves as a “relief zone” that reduces stress on the battery. In any case, it’s much cooler-looking and will hopefully enable Apple to do even more complex, space-saving battery designs in the future. Read more…
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Samsung Galaxy S9+ teardown reveals that it’s nicely symmetrical on the inside
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The iMac Pro has vastly improved cooling, teardown reveals
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Apple’s iMac Pro is the most powerful desktop computer Apple has ever created — well, at least until the launch of the all-new Mac Pro later this year.
And even though it looks like any other new iMac (save for that sweet Space Gray color), a teardown from iFixit reveals that it’s quite different on the inside.
The first thing that stands out is cooling. The new iMac Pro has a very large, dual-fan cooler and a rear ventilator which iFixit claims offers an 80% increase in cooling capacity. On top of this, a large heatsink helps cool the GPU and the CPU. Given that the iMac Pro has top-notch components crammed in a tight space, the cooling improvements are very welcome, especially for professionals who’ll throw hard tasks at this machine for extended periods of time. Read more…
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The hardest part of buying a shiny new iPhone X isn’t paying it off, but picking a wallpaper to plaster all over its gigantic display.
Now, you can make your iPhone X stand out from the crowd with one of these teardown wallpapers by iFixit that expos…
iPhone X teardown finds major changes inside the gleaming exterior
The iPhone 8 may have been filled with the expected kit, but we’ve all been looking forward to finding out what fun Apple’s engineers had putting together the all-new iPhone X — and it doesn’t disappoint. iFixit’s excellent-as-always teardown finds a wealth of strange new components inside the biggest redesign of the device in years. Read More
On the inside, iPhone X is totally different from all other iPhones
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With the iPhone X, Apple is charting new territory, and we’re not only talking about the phone’s looks and lack of buttons.
When you open it up, as the folks from iFixit have (already!) done, the iPhone X is very, very different from any previous iPhone.
SEE ALSO: A hands-on review of the iPhone X
Being a much smaller device than the iPhone 8 Plus, but packing a screen of roughly the same size, and nearly identical specs, the iPhone X’s components are packed incredibly densely. For the first time, Apple has divided the battery in two separate parts — yes, the iPhone X technically has two batteries. Also, the phone’s logic board is folded in half to save space (interestingly, Apple had used a similar technique on the original iPhone). Read more…
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