it's here the moment we've all been
waiting for the next generation of
Playstation the ps4 has arrived
Sony gave us our first peak of the ps4
this summer when it showed up the Xbox
one by announcing it would be $100
cheaper the PlayStation may have won
that battle but will it win the war on
repairability
you know what time it is it's teardown
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hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the brand new ps4
there's no chance of confusing this new
console with the earlier versions as the
ps4 trades in the curves of the ps3 for
a more modern and angular design the ps4
has added a snazzy external LED light
that powers on blue when the console is
turned on and as we learned at a recent
press event changes to red when the
system is overheating that looks a
little too familiar to me the ps4 offers
digital only output having a single HDMI
port an optical audio port a LAN port
and an auxilary port for connecting your
PlayStation camera size-wise the ps4 is
close to the ps3 slim and measures in at
275 millimeters in width 305 millimeters
in length excluding the largest
projection and just 53 millimeters in
height first things first we're happy to
see just how easy it is to get at the
ps4 s hard drive this is definitely a
user replaceable Drive it's a standard
two and a half inch laptop size drive
that you can just pop out when you're
ready for an upgrade anyone else
thinking SSD very nice sony in order to
get inside this beautiful black box we
have to get past the seals that cover
the first screws
we've only had it in our possession a
few minutes and we've already voided the
factory warranty how unlike us and with
a few twists of our screwdriver we're
able to remove the torque security bits
that are securing the case and now we
can get our first look inside the ps4
including that custom design 85
millimeter diameter fan but before we
can get the fan out we have to remove a
few things first out of the box is the
power supply this power supply makes
having a giant brick attached to your
power cable a thing of the past and the
AC input of 100 to 240 volts means
international gamers will only need the
right power socket to use it next to
come out is the optical drive
this is a 6-time CI v blu-ray drive
lifting up the panel's reveals an
uncluttered and green motherboard I'm a
sucker for organization audit you will
see the system on a chip which consists
of eight x86 64 bit AMD jaguar cores and
the next-generation radeon GPU comprised
of 18 compute units capable of cracking
out 1.8 for teraflops this chip will be
backed by 8 gigabytes of unified gddr5
Ram and what's gonna keep all those
chips cool for one this giant heatsink
try as we might we were unable to remove
it from the emi shielding and then
there's the fan all 85 millimeters of it
it's designed to run smarter and quieter
so hopefully those curves are gonna keep
the machine from falling prey to a next
generation yellow light of death we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
and I fixed it it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the PlayStation 4 got a 8
out of 10 and here's why
on the upside no adhesive makes
disassembly and reassembly easy and the
non-proprietary hard drive is easy to
access and replace and replacing it will
not void your warranty but on the
downside you'll need to disassemble
quite a bit of the device to access the
fan for cleaning and even more for
replacement and finally the sharp
midplane could cause some damage to your
fingers if you're not careful during
disassembly for the complete teardown
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