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Teardown of 9.7-Inch iPad Pro Examines Speakers and Rear Camera, Finds 'Gobs of Adhesive'
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I don't care about tablet or phone repairability we're getting further into smaller technology where its just not plausible by hand to do.
But Apple seems to be challenging 3M with adhesive or becoming a chinese manufacture with the amount of adhesive in their products. Granted its not elmer's school glue but still, when they constructed their devices internally with class and precision, they still are but it seem to be a bit of compromise with these thin ones.
But Apple seems to be challenging 3M with adhesive or becoming a chinese manufacture with the amount of adhesive in their products. Granted its not elmer's school glue but still, when they constructed their devices internally with class and precision, they still are but it seem to be a bit of compromise with these thin ones.
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Haha they aren't "scores," they are capacities, with mAh being the unit of measurement. Whoever wrote this article, please tell me you know that mAh is a capacity and not a benchmark.
-CSI crime scene-
Nothing new to see here. Another vicitm
ID: ipp 9.7
I like ifixit. It's interesting to see what's inside. I love these techno autopsy.
Nothing new to see here. Another vicitm
ID: ipp 9.7
I like ifixit. It's interesting to see what's inside. I love these techno autopsy.
what a waste.....
Glad to see Apple sharing just about everything else as well. We won't use screws cos making things messy is only for *us* to see...
Well... not really.... iFixit took the plunge ... and survived.. I just knew those tools were for something else too.
I guess if the intention these days *is* to go smaller, then we will start seeing components fused together too in future and everything on the screen, not separate Not sure weather that is possible..
Glad to see Apple sharing just about everything else as well. We won't use screws cos making things messy is only for *us* to see...
Well... not really.... iFixit took the plunge ... and survived.. I just knew those tools were for something else too.
I guess if the intention these days *is* to go smaller, then we will start seeing components fused together too in future and everything on the screen, not separate Not sure weather that is possible..
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The iPhone is, it has always had screws holding the class top on, if you remove them from their on it has normally been fiddly but not impossible to take them apart yourself without a heat gun.
It's surprising when all other phones are glued together, but I'm sure Apple will follow suite soon with the iPhone.
It's a pleasant surprise that the camera may have OIS, although on the tech specs it says it has 'Auto Image Stabilisation' the same as the 12.9" Pro iPad.
VERY Odd, then again it's odd they gave it such a camera in the first place. But then again I have gone to events and seen people using iPads to take photos and videos.
I guess their thinking is as it's a powerful device, you can take and edit your 4K content on a nice sized device, easier than doing it on an iPhone screen for instance?
To me (as a CS/EE person) its cool to see the innards and how the parts work together. In reality I would not want to take it apart and try to modify it so a repair ability score doesn't impact my purchasing plan.
i'd say it's not that odd considering the 9.7" is a great viewfinder for video enthusiasts - the only ones who'd be paying attention to it anyway (small demographic compared to many others). when i scrape together enough money, i'll be buying a padcaster http://padcaster.com and start making drafts of videos and content i'd like to see fleshed out later with better equipment. the portability + 'giant' viewfinder is fantastic with iPads, and not many outside the film industry take full advantage.
yes, it's kind of annoying when people at concerts/events use one instead of a smaller phone - but that's not the end-all be-all of iPad's video capabilities. i'm not stating that's what you inferred, just that popular opinion tends to lean towards iPad as a 'video-taking nuisance'
I love the iFixIt teardowns, but they really are in a delusional world about electronics.
<<most of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro's components are held together by "gobs of adhesive" that will make it difficult for everyday repairs>>
Everyday iPad repairs? WTF exactly are those? I could poll 1000 random people on the street and not a damn one of them would know how to crack open an iPad and change anything in it.
I personally have opened a 27" iMac, and have replaced the HD with an SSD in a second gen MacBook Air; and even I wouldn't dare open an iPad on the assumption that I could do anything useful.
(Nor would I need to. In my experience iPads and iPhone are built like rocks. As long as you don't drop them in water, and use a case so they are protected against normal falls, they last forever.)
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It's really difficult to have fully front-facing speakers that don't move the screen visibly in sync with the sound.
And of course even if you DID decouple the speakers from the visible screen (by having the screen bezel end before the "chin", so that the chin was a separate piece of plastic/speaker grill) you'd probably still have the usual crowd complaining that Apple is "wasting" that space and should move the speakers to below the screen...
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Hell, my iPhone 1 still works fine (rocking iOS 3.1.3) acting as a music player for my bathroom/shower.
My sister is using my old iPad 1 as a portable movie player, and my mother uses my old iPad 3 (first retina model) as her computer (good enough for her very limited/simplified email/Facebook type needs).
If your first thought when you buy a new iPhone/iPad is "I'll toss the old one in the trash" maybe that says something more about you than about these devices?
<<most of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro's components are held together by "gobs of adhesive" that will make it difficult for everyday repairs>>
Everyday iPad repairs? WTF exactly are those? I could poll 1000 random people on the street and not a damn one of them would know how to crack open an iPad and change anything in it.
I personally have opened a 27" iMac, and have replaced the HD with an SSD in a second gen MacBook Air; and even I wouldn't dare open an iPad on the assumption that I could do anything useful.
(Nor would I need to. In my experience iPads and iPhone are built like rocks. As long as you don't drop them in water, and use a case so they are protected against normal falls, they last forever.)
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I would take 2 front facing speakers anyday over 4 speakers shooting the sound somewhere else.
It's really difficult to have fully front-facing speakers that don't move the screen visibly in sync with the sound.
And of course even if you DID decouple the speakers from the visible screen (by having the screen bezel end before the "chin", so that the chin was a separate piece of plastic/speaker grill) you'd probably still have the usual crowd complaining that Apple is "wasting" that space and should move the speakers to below the screen...
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In what fantasy do you imagine these devices are "fodder for landfills"? In the actually existing world, they get used until they break (which is a LONG time). They get moved into cars to run the car music system, or get given to family members, or move out the country to act as iPods for people living in poorer countries.
Hell, my iPhone 1 still works fine (rocking iOS 3.1.3) acting as a music player for my bathroom/shower.
My sister is using my old iPad 1 as a portable movie player, and my mother uses my old iPad 3 (first retina model) as her computer (good enough for her very limited/simplified email/Facebook type needs).
If your first thought when you buy a new iPhone/iPad is "I'll toss the old one in the trash" maybe that says something more about you than about these devices?
Agreed, with one caveat: Apple doesn't build their hardware purposely to be unfixable, that's assigning intent where none exists; rather, that simply doesn't enter into their considerations. Their hardware is designed to be as compact and reliable as they can make it - these intents are at odds with making it also easily repairable: if they added more repairability, it would negatively impact size and reliability. It's just like the recyclability - a while back there was a big flap with some recyclers saying, "Apple claims the iPhone is recyclable, but we're recyclers and we can't recycle it, so it's actually a throwaway". But building it so it can be easily broken down by any recycler was never a goal for Apple, rather they build something that Apple can recycle. And now they have robots to do just that. "Purposely unfixable" falls in the same category as "Apple purposely makes old phones run slow so people will buy new ones" - assigning malicious intent when simple facts point a different direction (your two year old phone is running _current_ apps slower because they're bigger and more complicated - it would run two year old apps at the same speed it originally did).
I don't find people taking video or photos with tablets at all annoying, I think they have had a stereotype attached to them though by the tech media.
I can see the attraction if you are seriously into your film making, the Pro is one powerful device too. The screen as you said makes for a giant viewfinder.
The iPad does not have OIS. It is done digitally. The only Apple products to have OIS are the iPhone 6 Plus and the 6s Plus. The website is careful to mention optical stabilization for the phones but makes no mention of it for the iPads.
EDIT: I do see that iFixit has suggested that the camera is optically stabilized but don't you suppose that would be a MAJOR selling point for a camera on a device capable of shooting and editing 4K video? Apple would have that plastered EVERYWHERE!
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I think he means, after the warranty period, if it breaks, its going into the landfill as its impossible for the average joe to make repairs to it.
