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Customers report new Retina MacBook Pros are shipping

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2012)

Apple customers who ordered the new Retina models of the MacBook Pro can start doing their happy dance -- shipping notifications are being sent to those who placed their orders from the online Apple Store on the day of the WWDC keynote on June 11. The delivery dates for the new boxes are ...

Daily Update for June 13, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

The contentious case against the MacBook Pro with Retina display

by Richard Gaywood (Jun 13th, 2012)

Here's a list of all the proprietary stuff Apple has shoehorned into the "best Mac it has ever made", the MacBook Pro with Retina display (henceforth referred to as "MBPwRD"), taken from the iFixit teardown: Irritating pentalobe screws, which don't stop anyone determined to disassemble ...

iFixit tears down a MacBook Pro with Retina display

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 13th, 2012)

It's the teardown that we've all been waiting for since Monday's WWDC keynote. iFixit got its hands on a new retina MacBook Pro and disassembled the lovely device for all of us to see. As expected, the teardown reveals a device that's extremely well-designed, but also difficult to repair. ...

Subtle changes to parts inside the new iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 16th, 2012)

Anandtech has excellent, in-depth articles about electornics hardware. The site doesn't disappoint with its latest analysis of the iPad breakdown from iFixit. They point out subtle differences between the iPad 2 and the iPad 3 including Apple's possible move to a flip-chip design with the A5X, ...

iFixit tears down the third generation iPad (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2012)

iFixit got its hands on a third generation iPad as soon as it went on sale in Australia today. As they boasted on Twitter, "the first legit-purchased, legit-owned iPad 3 is now also the first legit-opened iPad... in the world." The iPad 2 and the iPad 3 have different displays and the ...

The Verge suggests the new iPad has 1 GB RAM

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 8th, 2012)

Though Apple is forthcoming about processor specs and display resolution, the company often fails to mention the amount of RAM inside its devices. The original iPad shipped with 256 MB of RAM and the iPad 2 with 512 MB. Sources for the Verge claim the new iPad will up the RAM again to a ...

iFixit examines alleged iPad 3 display, confirms doubled resolution

by Chris Rawson (Feb 23rd, 2012)

Mac Rumors recently got its hands on a component that's allegedly the display from the forthcoming iPad 3. After putting it under a microscope, the site was able to confirm that the display has a 2048 x 1536 resolution, double the horizontal resolution and quadruple the number of pixels on the ...

iFixit offers transparent rear panels for iPhone 4S

by Chris Rawson (Nov 29th, 2011)

iFixit released transparent rear panels for the iPhone 4 several months ago, which put the surprisingly attractive innards of Apple's smartphone on display. Apple must have tweaked the internals of the iPhone 4S just barely enough for that panel to be incompatible, because iFixit has now released ...

iPhone 4S has a Siri-specific proximity sensor

by Chris Rawson (Nov 9th, 2011)

During iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 4S, the site came across a component that it couldn't immediately identify. After subsequent testing, iFixit has determined that the iPhone 4S has an infrared LED that acts as a secondary proximity sensor, and its functions appear to be tied directly to ...

Daily Update for October 13, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 13th, 2011)

iFixit tears down an iPhone 4S

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 13th, 2011)

iFixit published an early teardown analysis of the iPhone 4S. This initial report suggests the iPhone 4S closely resembles the iPhone 4 on the outside and the inside. The form factor is the same, the pentalobe screws are the same, and even the logic board looks similar to the CDMA ...

iPhone 4S rumored to offer 512MB RAM instead of 1GB

by Erica Sadun (Oct 10th, 2011)

Despite early rumors to the contrary, TUAW is reading reports from around the Internet that the new iPhone 4S will use 512MB of RAM memory, not the full 1GB many had hoped for. In terms of specs, this falls right in line with the iPad 2's 512MB of LPDDR2 RAM, per that device's iFixit ...

iFixit tears down Apple's Thunderbolt display

by Mike Schramm (Sep 28th, 2011)

iFixit has gone all destructo on Apple's new Thunderbolt display, and the gory details are now available over on their site. They ripped the beautiful monitor apart so you didn't have to, and inside they found the same display seen in the iMac Intel 27" from a couple of years ago, as well as a ...

Intensive surgery on an old MacBook Pro yields huge performance gains (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Aug 19th, 2011)

Installing OS X Lion on a 3 1/2-year old MacBook Pro made it clearer than ever just how slow my old machine had become. Beachballs left and right, UI lag, incredibly long reboot times, dismal application load times... as someone accustomed to the "instant on" feel of an iPad or iPhone, I was ...