Product Design The Retina MacBook Pro Was ‘Verified’ EPEAT Gold, But It’s Not Green The Retina MacBook Pro—the least repairable, least recyclable computer I have encountered in more than a decade of disassembling electronics—was just verified EPEAT “Gold”, along with four other ultrabooks. This… October 16, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns iPod Nano 7th Generation Teardown Last week, Apple invited its fans via email to “meet the new iPod family”: the iPod Touch, Nano, and Shuffle. We already got up close and personal with the 5th… October 16, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns iPod Touch 5th Generation Teardown We just tore down the new iPod Touch. With no external screws, the new Touch is tough to pry open, and its logic board utilizes two hard-to-manage ribbon cables: the… October 11, 2012 by Miro Djuric
E-Waste Technology in the Classroom: One Tablet per Child? Last week, amidst the sweeping political mandates of the Presidential debates, education Secretary Arne Duncan made a mandate of his own, calling for the nation to ditch printed textbooks in… October 9, 2012 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
iFixit Mother Jones Profiles iFixit Mother Jones—a nonprofit news magazine that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting—profiled iFixit! The story is in the magazine’s November/December issue and was published online last week. Author… October 3, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Product Design Chemical Analysis Reveals that New Phones Have Fewer Toxics High technology feels so clean—no coal or steam or mess, just cool aluminum, sleek plastics, and polished glass. But that clean surface hides a far messier inside. In partnership with… October 2, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Fixers Repair Still Rules in India. Can America Bring It Back? In Kottayam, a spice trading city in the southwest state of Kerala, India, summer means rain—and lots of it. From June through September, monsoon waters cool down sweaty bicyclists, and… October 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Events Hang out with iFixit Between spreading the word about why repair matters and tearing down all the coolest devices, we’re pretty busy here at iFixit. This fall, we’re especially busy. In the coming months,… September 26, 2012 by Julia Bluff
Product Design iPhone 5: An Evolution in Repair When we started our teardown of the iPhone 5 last Wednesday, we expected it to follow the trend of devices being less durable and less repairable. But Apple surprised us.… September 25, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Wallpapers iPhone 5 Internals Wallpaper Apple goes to great lengths to make their products beautiful, both inside and out. And thanks to our iPhone 5 teardown last week, the whole world got a chance to… September 25, 2012 by Brett Hartt
