During yesterday’s WWDC keynote, one of the biggest announcements on the hardware side was the all new line of MacBook Airs that was unveiled by Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller. Schiller announced the new ultra-thin laptops that included drastically increased battery life, much faster graphics, and the new Haswell Intel processors inside. With…
A couple of days back, Apple sneakily launched a new iPod touch and discontinued the old faithful 4th generation. Unlike the 32GB and 64GB 5th gen models, the new 4-inch iPod touch has no camera on the back, no Loop attachment and is only available in a single color. But, apart from that, it looks and feels just like the flagship models. As is always…
I’ve always found it incredibly unfair that whilst us ordinary folk are still waiting for our Apple products to arrive, there are people in the tech world who are already taking them apart, just so we can see what’s inside. A teardown of the latest iMac was inevitable, and it’s finally here. The dismantling was conducted by Japanese bloggers Kodawarsian,…
Battery is just as huge as the iPad 3 Yesterday we watched as iFixit took to the iPad mini with its infamous tool kit, including tiny screw drivers, plectrums and a heat gun. The smaller tablet proved a handful to take apart once the display unit was removed, getting a repairability score of just 2/10. Afterwards, the same company took apart the big…
We’ve only recently heard reports that Apple and Samsung’s manufacturing partnership is virtually ending next year. But the latest teardown from the engineers at iFixit suggests that the two companies can’t quite get rid of each other just yet. The deconstruction exposed a Samsung 7.9″ display, and also revealed that the device shared a few design…
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love checking out iFixit’s regular iDevice product teardowns. I just love taking stuff apart, up to a certain monetary value. When it comes to expensive gadgets, I’m more than happy to let someone else do it for me as long as I get to see the internals. Thankfully, I can always rely on iFixit to come up with the…
As we read a few days back, iFixit has now disemboweled taken apart the iPhone 5 and latest iPod touch. While the 6th generation iPhone was pretty straight forward, the iPod touch was designed to keep everyone out. It’s much the same with the iPod nano. Plenty of elbow grease, crafty tools an miniature crowbars were needed to pries the nano apart. I…
TiP Daily October 11, 2012: New reports claim the iPad mini could be delayed due to production issues, the first teardown of the new iPod Touch has hit the web, and more! – iPod Touch teardown: http://tinyurl.com/99lggzs – iPhone 5 vs LG Nexus: http://tinyurl.com/9orgej8 – iPad mini accessory display: http://tinyurl.com/8qw9l2j – iPad mini…
iFixit – as it always does with new iDevices – has taken the new iPod touch apart to inspect the internals. Since Apple rarely reveals the component specifics in public, we have to rely on these guys to see just what exactly is powering the new iOS-powered gizmos. Some notable findings include: The A5 processor features 512MB of RAM Battery packs…
A partnered teardown run by iFixit and Chipworks has revealed Apple’s A6 processor, and its customer configuration. Before the surgery, we knew the iPhone featured 1GB of RAM, a dual-core CPU and a triple-core graphics layout. The general consensus of the observation appears to suggest that the ARM chip looks “homespun”. It doesn’t have the same…
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