Victor Szulc

I am intending to change the battery in my iPhone 5s myself, something I haven't tried before, but if it all goes well,...

Hello, just got an inexpensive iPhone 6s, unfortunately the case is pretty scratched. I was intending to replace the...

Its basically just a plate of glass, with a little digitizer chip attached, and a cable with the homebutton attached. It sits on top of the lcd. You can get three different parts AFAIK.. 1: LCD, glass and digitizer. These cost anywhere from 130$ and up on eBay and Amazon, though you can get them even cheaper sometimes. This is to replace all the display parts, in case the LCD is also cracked or completely black. 2: Glass and digitizer. Is the lcd behind the glass fine? Then you only need to replace the glass. This one comes with a new digitizer chip, so you can just take your cracked glass out and put this in. It usually costs 50-100$ 3: Glass. No digitizer. Only the front glass. The drawback is, that you have to user your solder, to get the digitizer off your old iPad, and then solder it to the new one. And switch the homebutton too. This is much harder than getting a front glass that comes with a new digitizer already mounted to it. But hey, if you already have a solder iron, and you're not scared off...

Buuuh!!! Why are you using an electrical screwdriver!

That's cheating man!

iSheep. How very clever and mature!

And that's pretty poor advice too. For a MBP user a good replacement would be a workstations-class machine like Dell Precision, Lenovo P-series or HP Z book. (Esp. The latter.)

They all come with a similar battery life and weight/thickness as the 15' MBP, and some of them can have 32GB RAM. (Apparently not a great engineering challenge after all.)

I recommend people take a look. Apple will keep ignoring the Mac until they see sales suffer.

@henry3dogg

Which other laptops have Thunderbolt 3? A complete list would be too long: Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Razer, etc. But here's a list of TB3 laptops ranging from 13' ultra books to 17' professional machines.

http://www.ultrabookreview.com/10579-lap...

As you can see, most of them have REMOVABLE SSDs. Many have CPUs equivalent to the new MacBook Pro, and with a similar size/weight but at much lower prices. There are even quite a few that have 32GB RAM available.

(And with a removable SSD, it's easy to upgrade a laptop to a HD as fast as the new MBP next year.)

I've been a long time Apple enthusiast, but the new MBP is underwhelming and disappointing.

Nonsense. Storage gets faster and more compact with time. It's nice to replace the original SSD with a 2019 SSD in three years.

It's also one of the reasons why MacBooks have so high resale value. Well used to have. This one won't, with the lack of RAM/SSD upgrades.

TCO is important for pro's.

No it doesn't.

Though that depends on what you mean by: "removable". Is it theoretically removable, meaning that there is a small chance that Apple can replace it, instead of giving you a new MacBook? Possibly.

Can you do it yourself or in a repair shop? Not a chance in !&&* with all that glue. At least not in one piece. And you won't be able to get parts.

Wow! That is one ugly looking brick of a phone!

The cheap looking plastic and design would make me stay way clear of it, even if offered to take itself apart.before repairs.

I find it hard to believe that there really is a market for something like this... What's the price?

OK... You know what CPU is inside of the S1?

I'll tell you...

Ready?

It's a single core version of the A5.... You heard it here first. How do I know?

Can't tell, but here's something to think about: Remember when a new version of the 3rd Gen Apple TV showed up, featuring a 28nm, reworked single core version of the A5?

And remember there was a lot of speculation, that it was a test run of sorts, and that Apple was planning to use the chip for something else? Since it didn't really make sense to go through all that trouble just to save a few watts in an Apple TV?

ST Micro did both the accelerometer and the gyroscope. That's according to Chipworks teardown anyways...

@JohnA:It's Chipworks who concluded that it's an STMicro part. Please try and pay attention before accusing others of unwarranted speculation. It's not like we're being overrun with Apple Watch teardowns after all.

Great validation of OLED technology? Not really. Just because it's a good fit for one purpose, doesnt make it the right solution for a different task, like a cellphone display for example.

OLED and LED screens both have their individual advantages and disadvantages.