Apple’s latest iPad Professional is remarkably inflexible for the way skinny it’s, and apparently additionally a step ahead relating to repairability. iFixit reveals throughout its teardown of the pill that the iPad Professional’s 38.99Wh battery, which is able to inevitably put on down and want alternative, is definitely straightforward to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says in the course of 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 basically in a position to pull the battery nearly instantly (after eradicating the digital camera meeting and coping with an aluminum lip beneath that, which made a few of the tabs exhausting 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 components are glued in, together with the pill’s logic board. Within the weblog, the positioning goes into extra element right here, mentioning that the glue means eradicating the audio system destroys them, and the pill’s daughter board could be very straightforward to by accident bend.
The positioning additionally discovered that the 256GB mannequin makes use of just one NAND storage chip, that 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 system will discover, and those that are might want extra storage, regardless.
However you may’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 need to mute the video proper there to keep away from the ear-piercing squeal of the device.) In contrast to 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 positioning may have a full chip ID quickly that may 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.