David Bridges
The brand new 13-inch M4 iPad Professional is absolutely, actually skinny. That’s inevitably going to make sure facets of repairing the gadget much more troublesome, which iFixit confirmed in a teardown printed this weekend. But it surely does shine in a single space — in relation to changing the battery, Apple made some critically useful adjustments.
“For the primary time in an iPad Professional, we’re capable of take away the battery instantly after eradicating the display,” Teardown Tech Shahram Mokhtari wrote in a weblog submit. Mokhtari notes that “instantly is relative,” as there are nonetheless some screws and brackets to take away earlier than the battery could be taken out, and the video documenting the method reveals it takes a bit of labor to get to the pull tabs beneath the batteries, however the brand new setup nonetheless shaves hours off the method in comparison with earlier fashions.
“The truth that you possibly can take away the battery with out having to take away each main part inside this gadget remains to be an enormous win for repairability,” Mokhtari says within the video. “It’s an enormous enchancment over the earlier technology.” Every part else, then again, goes to be fairly difficult to restore with out inflicting harm. “From the daughterboard to the audio system and coax cables, we discovered a complete bunch of stuff that’s glued down as a result of there simply isn’t sufficient area for screws.”
And, the teardown reveals the brand new Apple Pencil Professional is a repairability nightmare. Mokhtari — who bought reduce by the Pencil whereas attempting to get to its insides — known as it “a disposable piece of crap as soon as the battery dies.”
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