hi guys I'm Gwendolyn and this is the
iFixit rundown where I give you all the
news of what happened this month and I
fix it here's what we've been up to our
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like last month our teardown table was
full again starting with a few Apple
products the brand new iPad pro and it's
very own stylus the Apple pencil one is
quite large and the other is super tiny
the pro had all the familiar fixings of
an iPad but we were pleasantly surprised
by adhesive pull tabs under the battery
this fact earned it a higher score than
recent iPads as for its tiny pencil well
it's pretty neat how much clever tech
they were able to cram into such a small
cavity but fixers and hackers beware
this device is not meant to be repaired
or open you can't get in without
destroying it we also got our hands on
the new Microsoft Surface book once
opened we found out the motherboard
sprawls across the entire chassis and is
upside-down meaning smooth side up
connectors and chips side down we assume
this was meant to provide support for
the larger than usual display it also
means getting almost anything out
requires getting everything out lastly
we took a look at the fairphone 2 their
phone doesn't just top our repair
ability scale it also has all the
trappings of a modern smartphone large
touchscreen display standardized ports
expandable storage and a lighter slim
design the fairphone 2 uses an
innovative modular architecture enabling
consumers to easily fix their phones
it's so easy in fact that you can swap a
screen or replace a battery without any
tools in just 10 second
needless to say this was one of our
fastest tear downs ever over at our blog
we have a story that any mp3 user can
relate to rediscovering an old playlist
is like digging into layers of your past
an emotional excavation track-by-track
but it's a lot harder to rediscover old
music if your playlist is trapped in a
broken device that's what happened to an
I fix a community member Patterson 24 to
find out how he released all those
memories and songs head over to our blog
at iFixit org ever wonder what happens
behind the scenes of a teardown we
thought you might so we made a video
about it it shows everything our
teardown engineers go through to make
sure we get the news about new devices
to you first check it out at our channel
last month I asked all of you to share
your repair stories with me and I've
gotten a lot of great responses from all
of you so far this year I'm giving away
the brand-new Pro Tech tool kit we
talked about earlier if you want to get
on my Christmas list this year you still
have time to share your story all you
have to do is tweet me a picture of your
latest or next repair and you could win
the brand-new Pro Tech tool kit and
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