Product Design TechCrunch Is Full of It: Repair Is Exactly What Consumers Need An article on TechCrunch yesterday by Matt Burns responded rather forcefully to our criticism of the new iPad. Burns says that Apple shouldn’t make the iPad user-serviceable. He explains, “If… March 21, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Apple TV Teardown Reveals Upgraded Wireless, Single-Core A5 We've just torn down the 3rd Generation Apple TV, Apple's streaming home theater device. During the teardown, we discovered that where there was one antenna, now there are two! We… March 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Three Ways We Hoped the iPad Would Be Better (But Wasn’t) We’re spending today huddled in our office, trying to figure out the best way to get into the new iPad—so it seems like an opportune time to discuss what we… March 16, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns New iPad 3 Teardown Wait no more—our highly anticipated new iPad teardown is up! Luke was the first in line to get his hands on a new iPad at midnight at the Telstra store… March 15, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Activism Close This Window! Reading iFixit is Suspicious Terrorist Activity An FBI/DoJ flyer says it's suspicious terrorist activity to "download or transfer files with 'how-to' content, such as information about electronics." Sure, the flyer has a standard disclaimer, acknowledging that… March 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories The Right Tools: Two Nano Battery Replacements Trevor Bugera submitted a story this week about fixing two iPods—his wife's Mini and her friend's Nano. Neither iPod would hold a charge, and the Mini recently started showing the… March 11, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Alive! Two Broken iBooks Become One Working Computer When Juan Ordonez's elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities… March 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers Women in Computers: Don’t You Know that Grandma’s the Fix-It Girl? Jodi Spangler has worked a lot of interesting jobs. She climbed telephone poles for a while in Michigan (until she fell off a pole from twelve feet in the air).… March 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Recycling Where 4,000,000 Cell Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected When you donate a phone to Cell Phones for Soldiers, or Sprint Project Connect, or The March of Dimes, it will end up at the Recellular warehouse. I sat down… March 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Tools iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits! Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found… March 6, 2012 by Miro Djuric
