Repair Stories Even Muppets Repair Their Stuff Big Bird and the gang instantly transport me back to my childhood—in footie pajamas, singing along to Sesame Street’s familiar theme song. Since its premiere in 1969, Sesame Street has… June 2, 2016 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Teardowns Hats off to HP’s Repairable Elite x2 1012 G1 Tablet This week, we got a little treat from HP—a tablet that they actually want you to fix yourself. HP is billing the Elite x2 1012 G1 as a tablet designed… May 23, 2016 by Evan Noronha
Events You Thought We Only Fixed Phones? iFixit is known for fixing electronics, but we want to help people fix everything—whether or not it has a motherboard. After all, everything breaks eventually. Recently, we challenged folks to… May 23, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Pixel C Teardown—the C Stands for Confusion Google’s Pixel C launch received such a resounding “meh” that we initially skipped a teardown. But the Pixel C returned to headlines once Google dropped the price, offering the Pixel… May 18, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Activism Linksys Won’t Lock Down WRT Routers It will soon be harder to install third-party firmware on Wi-Fi routers—thanks to new FCC rules. But even as some manufacturers—like TP-Link—have started locking down devices in order to comply,… May 17, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Product Design Another Phone Bites the Pentalobe Bullet Last week, we told you about how we found Apple’s nasty tamper-resistant screw—better known as the pentalobe—somewhere we never expected: on the Huawei P9. Before the P9, we’d never seen… May 12, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Rediscover the Joy of Electronics with these Throwback Projects from Circuit Classics We tinker with computers for a living—which means, we’ve seen more circuit boards and electronics kits than you can shake a spudger at. But we’ve never seen a printed circuit… May 10, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Huawei, Why Is There a Pentalobe on the P9? We don’t want to compare apples to oranges here, but this P9 feels very iPhone. From the opening procedure to the battery adhesive strips, right down to the pentalobe screws… May 6, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Gadgets HTC, You’re Giving Us Good Vive-brations Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in an HTC Vive—join us as we escape into virtual reality. Excuse us for being a little rhapsodic, we just… April 26, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns The Retina Macbook 2016 Like You’ve Seen It Before Here’s the sitch: Apple just offered up their first update to the 12” Retina MacBook—and it’s pretty much identical to their 2015 model. Except for the pretty pink color, because… April 25, 2016 by Julia Bluff
