Apple’s latest iPad Professional is remarkably inflexible for a way skinny it’s, and apparently additionally a step ahead in terms of repairability. iFixit reveals throughout its teardown of the pill that the iPad Professional’s 38.99Wh battery, which can inevitably put on down and wish alternative, is definitely straightforward to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says throughout the video “might save hours in restore time” in comparison with previous iPad Professional fashions.
Attending to it nonetheless requires eradicating the glued-in tandem OLED display screen, which iFixit notes within the video and its accompanying weblog isn’t two panels smashed collectively, however a single OLED board with extra electroluminescence layers per OLED diode. With the display screen out of the way in which, iFixit was primarily in a position to pull the battery virtually instantly (after eradicating the digital camera meeting and coping with an aluminum lip beneath that, which made a few of the tabs arduous to get to). For earlier fashions, he notes, you must pull out “each main part.”
After that, although, the thinness proves to be a difficulty for iFixit, as lots of the elements are glued in, together with the pill’s logic board. Within the weblog, the location goes into extra element right here, mentioning that the glue means eradicating the audio system destroys them, and the pill’s daughter board may be very straightforward to by chance bend.
The positioning additionally discovered that the 256GB mannequin makes use of just one NAND storage chip, which means it’s technically slower than dual-chip storage. As some Verge readers might recall, that’s additionally the case for M2 MacBook Air’s entry-level storage tier. However as we famous then (and as iFixit says in its weblog), that’s not one thing individuals who aren’t pushing the machine will discover, and those that are might want extra storage, regardless.
However you’ll be able to’t say the identical for Apple’s new $129 Apple Pencil Professional, which shouldn’t shock anybody. Mokhtari was compelled to chop into the pencil utilizing an ultrasonic cutter, a second he introduced as “the world’s worst ASMR video.” (That occurs simply after the five-minute mark, in case you wish to mute the video proper there to keep away from the ear-piercing squeal of the instrument.) Not like the iPad Professional itself, the Pencil Professional’s battery was the very last thing he might get to.
By the point Mokhtari is finished, the pencil is completely destroyed, in fact. He says the location may have a full chip ID quickly that can embrace photos of the MEMS sensor that drives the pencil’s barrel roll function that permits you to twist the pencil to regulate the rotation of on-screen artwork instruments.
