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IPad Teardown
- natch 17y agoSweet! Thanks for posting this (an hour before the other submission that hijacked your link by pointing to page two, I might add). The only bad thing is it was a bit deflating to see the thing disassembled while I'm still waiting for UPS's very slow (in subjective terms) delivery today.
- alanthonyc 17y agoI got a knock on the door a few minutes ago...it was the FedEx guy with my iPad dock. Still no iPad.
- tomerico 17y agoThe most interesting thing in my opinion was the fact that 80% of the space was taken by two large batteries. No wonder thae battery is irreplaceable.
- jrockway 17y agoOpen the battery door of your phone and you'll see a similar phenomenon. Except that you can replace the battery.
- axod 17y agoI'd really love to see some startups working on Battery technology. Batteries don't seem to have improved at all in the last 30 years. They absolutely suck. Surely someone out there can do better :/
- jrockway 17y agoUh, you don't remember the NiCd and NiMH batteries from a decade ago? I do. Those really sucked.
- angstrom 17y agoBut when was the last time you had a device that doubled as a brick?
- axod 17y agoBut the advances in battery technology are lame compared to CPU / memory / disk. In the last 30 years, we've gone from having a room full of hard disks storing 32GB, to a memory chip the size of your fingernail storing the same. In that same time period, batteries have improved a little bit. I understand it's a "harder" problem, but it'd really be nice if people were working on it.
- berntb 17y ago>>but it'd really be nice if people were working on it. Are you joking? Consider that electric cars are using similar tech as laptops; there is a lot of battery research. (Google e.g. lithium air, I believe that is the latest great hope for getting rid of the oil dependency...)
- axod 17y agoI'm sure a few people are working on it ;) It's just depressing how much batteries suck. Why can't we buy AA batteries that last a month constant usage now? Probably because then we'd buy less batteries, and people are unlikely to buy more expensive batteries. Anyway, some new startups working to shake things up would be cool IMHO.
- Daniel_Newby 17y ago50 milliamps for a month is equal to the energy produced by 50 grams of TNT. OK, so not kilotons, but not something you want to carry around either.
- axod 17y agoSo build some technology to make it ridiculously safe to carry around. Can't be that hard ;)
- nnutter 17y agoGuess we can own it?
- PopScreenTeam 17y agoThat's cool. Very efficient assembly.
- pak 17y agoIntriguing. Somebody secretly took apart the 3G model and found this: http://i.imgur.com/It9To.png http://i.imgur.com/It9To.png
- angstrom 17y ago4 iPads to a workstation. It's iPhones all the way down.
- sahaj 17y ago2GB of RAM was what impressed me the most. I was expecting 1GB at the most.
- pieter 17y agoIt's 256MB, apparently. The article says 2Gb(256MB) per die, for a total of 512MB, but http://furbo.org/2010/04/03/benchmarking-in-your-lap/ http://furbo.org/2010/04/03/benchmarking-in-your-lap/ tested it and it's 256MB. I'm not sure where iFixit gets the idea there would be two dies.
- ck2 17y agoHow long do you think until someone accidentally shorts or punctures those massive Li-Poly batteries. Isn't that battery type particularly prone to explosions (seriously!)
- snom370 17y agoI guess that is one reason why the front display is made of quite thick glass (it seems) and the back is made of aluminum. You would need to give it quite a beating in order to damage the batteries.