iFixIt iPhone 6/6+ (6 Plus) Teardown?

[odds]

New Zealand time is UTC+8. Here in Los Angeles, CA, that's 19 hours ahead.

So are the good folks at iFixIt going to be doing iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ (6 Plus) tear downs in New Zealand this time around? Have they in the past? I hope they do because I'm a bit torn between the 6 and 6+ at the moment. I'd really like to see how much RAM each model comes with before buying one or the other.

TL;DR: Anyone know if iFixIt will be doing new iPhone teardowns from New Zealand this year?

 

[webbuzz]

New Zealand time is UTC+8. Here in Los Angeles, CA, that's 19 hours ahead.

So are the good folks at iFixIt going to be doing iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ (6 Plus) tear downs in New Zealand this time around? Have they in the past? I hope they do because I'm a bit torn between the 6 and 6+ at the moment. I'd really like to see how much RAM each model comes with before buying one or the other.

TL;DR: Anyone know if iFixIt will be doing new iPhone teardowns from New Zealand this year?

Next Friday most likely.

 

[itjw]

No need. 1GB . Both.

Aka: Plenty

Unless you need 8 Safari tabs while running Bioshock in call. Let me guess, that's "normal" for a "power user" lmao?

No reviews note any RAM related issues. Only problem of note are flaws on the plus due to the downscaling screen. Glad I got the 6!

 

[pickaxe]

Unless you need 8 Safari tabs while running Bioshock in call. Let me guess, that's "normal" for a "power user" lmao?

keep telling yourself that - I don't play games and Safari refreshes all the time. But I bet the situation will be much better in a phone that drives three times as many pixels!

 

[itjw]

keep telling yourself that - I don't play games and Safari refreshes all the time. But I bet the situation will be much better in a phone that drives three times as many pixels!

Tell me how to do it. I want to recreate the problem just using Safari normally.

Let me guess, it's "intermittent", and only with 8 tabs open at once... but you "swear" it happens to you right?

And that pixel statement proves you don't understand what's causing the problem you aren't having anyway.

Thanks for playing though.

 

[pickaxe]

Tell me how to do it. I want to recreate the problem just using Safari normally.

Let me guess, it's "intermittent", and only with 8 tabs open at once... but you "swear" it happens to you right?

And that pixel statement proves you don't understand what's causing the problem you aren't having anyway.

Thanks for playing though.

I'm going to take a guess here and say I understand it just as well as you if not better.

 

[groovyf]

They're going to perform a live teardown.

https://twitter.com/iFixit/status/511986589925642240

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv7GU6NDzjM

 

[jlake02]

No need. 1GB . Both.

Aka: Plenty

Unless you need 8 Safari tabs while running Bioshock in call. Let me guess, that's "normal" for a "power user" lmao?

No reviews note any RAM related issues. Only problem of note are flaws on the plus due to the downscaling screen. Glad I got the 6!

The 6 will have the same "blown up" issue. It just won't be as noticable because the screen is smaller obviously.

 

[odds]

No need. 1GB . Both.

Aka: Plenty

Unless you need 8 Safari tabs while running Bioshock in call. Let me guess, that's "normal" for a "power user" lmao?

No reviews note any RAM related issues. Only problem of note are flaws on the plus due to the downscaling screen. Glad I got the 6!

Hey link me to reviews or articles that mention flaws of the 6+'s downsampling. I'm going to attempt to be in an Apple Store on afternoon of launch day to try both models anyways though.

 

[derekgroves]

Only problem of note are flaws on the plus due to the downscaling screen.

And for those wanting the 6+, this is very much a real tangible issue. So yeah- it's a problem.

 

[itjw]

Hey link me to reviews or articles that mention flaws of the 6+'s downsampling. I'm going to attempt to be in an Apple Store on afternoon of launch day to try both models anyways though.

daringfireball.net was the first major review to point it out. There are more that have noticed it since, but I'll have to dig up the links.

Hopefully no one is trying to say it doesn't happen. It's a drawback to downscaling. Even with "desktop class" scalers, it's something that rears it's ugly head from time to time, and I'm shocked that the OCD crowd with all of their "my screen is too yellow" isn't up in arms about the flaw.

Is it a huge deal? Nope. But it's a definitive advantage the 6 holds over the Plus. And keep in mind, most revieweres aren't going to be as critical of the animations as the typical RAM whiner will be either. It's kinda scary really.

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I'm going to take a guess here and say I understand it just as well as you if not better.

As I expected. I'll just take a guess and say the problem cannot be replicated on a consistent basis. You know what they call that in the tech support world? A user malfunction.

Let me know if you can ever create a "normal" scenario when RAM faults occur though. I'd love to be proven wrong. There's gotta be a first time, right?

 

[hachyderm]

Gruber's comments on downsampling:

This on-the-fly downsampling sounds crazy — it sounds like something that might be slow, and that might lead to fuzziness on screen with small text or fine lines. In practice, it just works. Text and fine lines appear sharper on the 6 Plus than on the regular 6 (or any other iPhone with a 326 PPI display, like the 5’s). 401 pixels per inch is high enough that things still look great even if they’re not pixel-perfect. I was deeply skeptical of this on-the-fly downsampling when I heard about it, but having used it for a week, I’m sold.

— and having used the iPhone 6 Plus for a week, I can’t complain about a single aspect of this downsampling design.