teardowns

Gadgets

Sony Gadgets Of All Ages Stripped Down And Photographed

12:00PM Rosa Golijan | iFixIt and Wired got together to cajole people into tearing down their favourite Sony products. And while autopsies usually give me the creeps, I’ll admit that seeing this hardware spread apart left me hot under the collar. More »
Design

New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot

3:20PM Rosa Golijan | While tearing down the new Apple iMac, the folks at iFixIt got requests for wallpaper quality images. They most certainly came through with these two stunning shots of full-frontal openness. I’m almost blushing. More »
Computers

iMac Teardown Reveals What Apple Hides Behind Its Logo

11:27PM Mark Wilson | The new iMac uses the Apple logo on the back for a very specific purpose. Can you guess? Hint: It’s one of the few parts of the body that’s plastic. More »
Peripherals

Magic Mouse Torn Apart, Nothing Magical Found Inside

2:10PM Dan Nosowitz | What a bait-and-switch, Apple. You charge a boatload for this fancy new mouse and call it “Magic”, yet iFixit’s teardown reveals nothing even close to magical — just boatloads of capacitive sensors. More »
Gadgets

When Memes Collide: A Will It Blend Teardown

3:44AM John Herrman | So what happens when two marketing execs from the undisputed leaders in elaborate, roundabout publicity stunts get shit-faced together the night before ad pitches are due? Nobody knows for sure, but I bet it would look something like this. More »
Cameras

Japanese Engineer’s Crazy Dream For A Camera, Exploded

12:30AM Matt Buchanan | This is what it’s like inside Nikon’s ridiculous projector-in-a-camera. Whoever fell asleep and drooled on the approval forms to make the s1000pj happen, thank you for something that should only exist on paper. [iFixit]
Games

PSPgo Dissection Reveals Questionable Durability

2:20AM Mark Wilson | In case you missed it in our PSPgo review, iFixit performed one of their notorious teardowns on the handheld. The biggest news is that the Go’s battery is tucked under a warranty-voiding sticker. Other tidbits: More »
Computers

The Mac Mini Costs Apple $US387.14 To Build

12:20AM Mark Wilson | It’s by no means the most timely report, but apparently Apple actually has a less profitable margin on the Mac Mini than much of their other hardware, according to iSuppli, as the base Mac Mini ($599) costs $US387.14 to build. More »
Phones

Hot Hot Hot: IPhone 3GS Shamelessly Stripped Naked

2:19PM Dan Nosowitz | Those deconstructionists over at Rapid Repair have taken their tiny screwdrivers or whatever to the iPhone 3GS and disassembled the poor baby. And so soon after its birth! More »
Gadgets

The Kindle DX Disassembled

12:00PM Andi Wang | In this five-step tutorial, RapidRepair shows you how to carefully disassemble—and reassemble—your Kindle DX to get a closer look at its innards. More »