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iFixit Shares Full Teardown of 11-Inch iPad Pro and New Apple Pencil
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Oh Look Ma ! Plenty of space for a headphone jack !
One day the iPad will just be one solid block of resin, and to repair it you'll have to dip it into a solution that dissolves the resin, freeing all the parts. To put the iPad back together you put it back into the assembler, which embeds the components in a new resin bloc.
I wonder what that version's reparability would be? 10/10 because it's completely repairable or 0/10 because only Apple could do it?
I wonder what that version's reparability would be? 10/10 because it's completely repairable or 0/10 because only Apple could do it?
It's better than the "stick it in a blender" youtube crap that went on for a while.
Googling for "ultrasonic blade" turns up some pretty cool technology. One of the first results explains it fairly well: Workings of the ultrasonic cutter. It's basically a small blade (like a Xacto knife, in this case) being vibrated at 20KHz-40KHz, so it's effectively a saw, but displacing an incredibly short distance.
Another explainer shows using a much larger blade to slice large cakes and cheeses very cleanly (not something you'd use at home, but rather in a large, high-volume bakery). As this second one summarizes: "The advantages of ultrasonic vibrating blades are: very precise cuts, pressure-free cutting, whereby a deformation of the cutted material (e.g. cake) can be avoided, simultaneous welding of the cutting edge of certain materials, very high cutting speeds and significantly reduced cleaning costs."
"Looking at the Face ID components, iFixit pointed out that this is the same basic hardware previously seen in Apple devices since the iPhone X"
Pretty spectacular internal design using up all the space available - I know its tight but keeping the head jack would have been great
Pretty spectacular internal design using up all the space available - I know its tight but keeping the head jack would have been great
What is up with all the apparent empty space? Looks like they could have extended the left battery a bit...
or a head jack - the question is how much weight and heat would get added to the tablet
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Imagine how much empty space is in the 12.9" iPP.
Does the iPad only charge the pencil on the top? I thought it charged on both the top and the side, or is that only in the 12.9"
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I remember installing these (really Expensive) blades 2 decades ago at a Mars factory, those knifes don't even touch the product.
They told me not to get nearby with my fingers, you can lose them, the engineers tested them with a bucket of water nearby, this was a way to see if they worked, ripples on the water is a way to see if that was the case.
As for iFixit teardown, I always look forward to them, they are nicely done.
Not true. Judging by all the comments on iFixit a lot of people do attempt to repair their own Apple devices when it's not cost worthy going through Apple. I've got an iPad that needs its speakers fixed that have become distorted and muffled. Have also fixed TV that I thought was pretty simple.
I'm all for this functionality arriving via iOS update. It just feels like one of those "features" they'll save for next year's iPhones.
And while I prefer TouchID over it's Home Button predecessor, there are tradeoffs (all of which have been discussed ad nauseam). Thus any improvement to the TouchID user experience is a good thing. Put another way, addressing anything TouchID can't do (doesn't work in landscape orientation) is a positive.
Radioactive display glue warmer
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No, mostly for weight and balance, well, also profit. If you put your finger on the Apple logo on any premium iPad, you will be amazed to see that it will balance on your finger perfectly. This is a part of their elegant design language.
It is also cheaper to have a single-cell battery instead of separating them into two, but Apple uses two-cell batteries in their premium iPad devices because it allows best thermal dissipation for the powerful Apple SoC, e.g. A12X Bionic etc. Your hand will not grab the centre of the iPad most likely, and when it is under heavy load, it's hot over there. For lower-end iPad devices, they use a single-cell battery design and you can feel the uneven heat on the back of the iPad. Like the New iPad, iPad mini series, iPad Air 2 and basically every iPad before that.
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While I don't disagree with any of that, it could also be true that because of how thin this device is they also used it for the display cables and such
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I do any so do alot of others. Move along
[QUOTE="now i see it, post: 26793290, member: 3112"]Nobody cares about an iPad tear down any more than they care about a TV tear down. These things for the most part are irreparable.[/QUOTE]
A classic scenario of "If I don't care, nobody else cares"
I don't look at this stuff because I am interested in reparability (never needed to repair iPads)
I look at this stuff because I find it interesting. And it is absolutely fine, you don't have to.
A classic scenario of "If I don't care, nobody else cares"
I don't look at this stuff because I am interested in reparability (never needed to repair iPads)
I look at this stuff because I find it interesting. And it is absolutely fine, you don't have to.
Uh, I do? I’ve fixed a Wii U GamePad that would’ve costed $100 to repair. I fixed it for $5 (Button would get stuck).
Replaced a broken trackpad and the battery in a 2011 MBA. Probably would’ve costed $200+ and I did it for $70.
Also replaced a failing fan in a Nintendo Switch for $10 which would’ve also costed $100.
I don’t think I would’ve even attempted them if it wasn’t for ifixit’s guides. I’m a person who likes to save $385 here and there.
And I also now know I couldn’t attempt to repair these iPads myself.