Apple’s latest iPad Professional is remarkably inflexible for a way skinny it’s, and apparently additionally a step ahead in relation to repairability. iFixit exhibits throughout its teardown of the pill that the iPad Professional’s 38.99Wh battery, which can inevitably put on down and wish alternative, is definitely simple to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says throughout the video “may save hours in restore time” in comparison with previous iPad Professional fashions.
Attending to it nonetheless requires eradicating the display screen, which is glued in and is linked to the iPad in 4 locations, however iFixit was primarily capable of pull the virtually instantly after eradicating the display screen (after eradicating the digital camera meeting and coping with an aluminum lip beneath that, which made a few of the tabs laborious to get to). For earlier fashions, he notes, it’s a must to pull out “each main element.”
After that, although, the thinness proves to be a problem for iFixit, as lots of the components are glued in, together with the pill’s logic board.
However you’ll be able to’t say the identical for Apple’s new $129 Apple Pencil Professional, which shouldn’t shock anybody. iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari was pressured 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 instrument.) In contrast to the iPad Professional itself, the Pencil Professional’s battery was the very last thing he may get to.
By the point Mokhtari is finished, the pencil is completely destroyed, in fact. He says the positioning can have a full chip ID quickly that can embrace pictures of the MEMS sensor that drives the pencil’s barrel roll characteristic that allows you to twist the pencil to regulate the rotation of on-screen artwork instruments.