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New Apple TV Teardown Provides Closer Look at A8 Chip, Larger Heat Sink and Siri Remote

Tuesday September 22, 2015 7:37 am PDT by
iFixit has posted a hardware teardown of the new fourth-generation Apple TV, providing a closer look at the set-top box's A8 chip, flash storage, redesigned power supply with a larger heat sink and other logic board components. The website also provided a teardown of the accompanying Siri Remote. Under the hood, the new Apple TV features a dual-core, 64-bit Apple A8 chip with 2GB of SK Hynix ...
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New iPod Touch Teardown Confirms 1,043 mAh Battery and 1GB of RAM

Friday July 17, 2015 8:16 am PDT by
iFixit has posted a detailed teardown of the new sixth-generation iPod touch, confirming that the device has a 1,043 mAh rated lithium-ion battery and 1GB of SK Hynix LPDDR3 RAM. Comparatively, the fifth-generation iPod touch released in 2012 had a 1,030 mAh rated battery and 512MB of RAM. The teardown also provides a closer look at the new iPod touch's Apple A8 chip and M8 motion...
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Teardown of 38mm Apple Watch Sport Reveals 205 mAh Battery, Taptic Engine

Thursday April 23, 2015 9:04 pm PDT by
iFixit is currently in the process of tearing down a 38mm Apple Watch Sport after the device launched in Australia today. While it is still early in the teardown process, the team has found that disconnecting the display from the body can be a little difficult, similar to the troublesome Touch ID cable on the iPhone 5s. Behind the display, two of the most significant features of the Apple...
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iFixit Tears Down iPad Air 2, Confirms Smaller Battery, A8X Chip, and 2GB RAM

Wednesday October 22, 2014 3:23 pm PDT by
Now that the iPad Air 2 is being delivered to customers and showing up in retail Apple Stores, iFixit has acquired one of the new tablets and has begun one of its traditional teardowns to see just what's inside Apple's thinner, more powerful iPad Air 2. According to iFixit, the "gapless" front panel is more rigid than previous iPad models, and feels sturdier when it's being pried up with the...
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Teardown of iPad Air Reveals A7 Chip, LG Display, Qualcomm LTE Modem

Friday November 1, 2013 6:50 am PDT by
iFixit has performed another one of its traditional high-quality teardowns on the iPad Air. The new iPad is dramatically thinner and lighter compared to the previous models, and also sports a 64-bit A7 chip, an M7 motion compressor, and a Qualcomm MDM9615 LTE modem. Among the details revealed in the teardown: - The display appears to be manufactured by LG. The Korean company along with Sharp...