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Hardware iPod Touch News

iFixit posts 6th-gen iPod touch teardown

Once again, the coolest of cats over at iFixit have come through with teardown goodness, dissecting a brand new 2015/sixth-generation iPod touch to see what they could find. The exterior of the device looks largely the same as the previous generation, but it’s the new guts of the device that make the difference. During the […]

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Apple Watch Hardware News Processors Uncategorized Wearables

Additional teardown, analysis finds Apple Watch CPU/GPU manufactured via Samsung’s 28-Nanometer process

The Apple Watch has gone through a number of teardowns since its release on April 24. The newest release from Chipworks has revealed the wearable to feature 512MB of RAM, a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip, an accelerometer/gyrometer from STMicroelectronics, 30 individual components inside the 26mm x 28mm S1 package, a feat Chipworks calls “quite an accomplishment.” […]

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Fun Hardware News

iFixit publishes light saber teardown for Fourth of May

Because it’s the Fourth of May, iFixit is nifty and you should be aware of what’s inside your light saber. The coolest of felines at iFixit have published a full teardown of Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi’s light saber.

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Apple Watch Hardware News Wearables

iFixit begins teardown, analysis of Apple Watch

It’s the teardown you’ve been waiting for. The coolest of felines over at iFixit finally got their mitts on an Apple Watch and a full teardown reveals that the much-vaunted heart rate monitor is actually capable of acting as a pulse oximeter, allowing it to calculate the oxygen content of your blood by measuring how […]

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Hardware MacBook Air News

iFixit teardown, tests reveal 2015 13-inch MacBook Air SSD architecture significantly faster than previous generations

If you were hoping for a tangible reason to invest in a new 2015 MacBook Air, it might have arrived in the form of a faster solid state drive. Last week, Apple refreshed its MacBook Air lineup, adding Broadwell chips and Intel 6000 graphics. Both models received the same processor updates, but the 13-inch MacBook […]