The Nexus 7 Goes Under The Knife

We can always count on iFixit to get down and dirty with its spudger and the latest tablet tech, and we're not going home empty handed today. The latest victim happens to be Google's recently announced Nexus 7, which has achieved a "repairability score" of 7 out of 10 (the Kindle Fire squeaked one notch past with an 8), with many accessible components including a replaceable battery and standard Phillips screws. While the site's ultimate goal is to illustrate the delicate process of opening our gadgets while leaving them unharmed, the good folks at iFixit never fail to entertain us in the process, with two dozen high-res photos of the Nexus 7's innards littering the 21-step repair guide. The most disappointing discovery appears to be the display, which is permanently affixed to its Corning glass covering, but given the tablet's $200 price tag, replacing such a component is not likely to be a cost-effective proposition. There's plenty more to gawk over, but you'll need to head to iFixit to, well, get your fix. Click on through at our source link below. [Engadget]

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Surface Teardown Surprises

The Surface slate is a marvellous piece of kit, manufactured by the Redmond based company Microsoft and created to blend a laptop and a tablet together so we can get the best of both worlds. It has just been released to the market, and iFixit has acquired its own unit to perform one of their trademark teardowns. Most of the device's specifications were already well known, but iFixit gives us a deeper look at the Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU the 31.5Wh Samsung-built battery that offers more watt-hours than the iPad 2 but less than the third generation's 42.5Wh battery and dual Wi-Fi antennas. Samsung is also the provider of the flash used for storage and the screen.

By design, tablets aren't repair friendly, so it comes as no surprise that the tablet's digitiser and LCD screen are one unit, getting access to some of the components is not an easy task. Many parts are a module or held together by removable screws, iFixit states that it is significantly more repairable than the competition's tablets, namely the Apple iPad — or the recent MacBook Apple computers with the Retina display — iFixit writes that it does not beat the Nexus 7 though. Regardless of your knowledge in IT or you interest in the latest devices, make your way to the iFixit website, it's very interesting to see the guts of one of the first devices to employ the new Windows RT.

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