we got the new Xbox one today and to
celebrate we brought out our old Kinect
yeah I'm gonna miss you all connect 1
Gwendolyn I'll miss YouTube announced
earlier this year the Xbox one caused
quite an uproar with its choice to
pursue a better way of experiencing TV
and less focus on gaming not to mention
not being able to play used or rented
games after a little backtracking the
Xbox one seems to be winning the crowd
over but will it beat the PlayStation
4's teardown score let's find out
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the brand new Xbox
one unlike the ps4 the Xbox one has
opted for a simple square design that
some say resembles a media device from
our past one interesting design note is
that the top of the Xbox one is halfway
covered with vents I think Microsoft is
taking cooling their new system very
seriously hopefully that means the red
light of death is a thing of the past
fingers crossed in terms of size the
Xbox one is noticeably bigger than its
next-gen counterpart measuring in at 333
millimeters by 274 millimeters by 79
millimeters on the back you'll notice a
plentiful selection of ports including
HDMI out s/pdif
HDMI IN 2 USB 3 Kinect sensor IR out
port for the Kinect and finally a LAN
port in order to see the inner workings
of this console we used an opening tool
to pry off the side grille still no
screws yet but as long as we don't see
any glue we don't mind
once we take off the first panel we're
met with our first screw that is
securing the Wi-Fi board in place and
while we were there we took off the
speaker no tools required the upper
metal shield is the only thing standing
between us and the fun stuff that makes
up the Xbox one and after eight sixty
four millimeter Torx screws we're in the
blu-ray drive was just as easy to remove
it was simply connected to the
motherboard via a couple of cables after
getting the blu-ray DVD drive off the
motherboard we turn our attention to the
hard drive this is a standard 2.5 inch
500 gigabyte 5400 rpm SATA to drive and
unlike the ps4 you will void your
warranty if you ever need to upgrade or
replace the hard drive now we can check
out the all-important heat
sink and fan combo this fan is huge in
comparison to the ps4 s the ps4 is fan
is 85 millimeters but the Xbox one's fan
comes in at 112 millimeters
we're happy to report that should your
new Xbox one have cooling issues all it
takes is a simple flick of the spudger
to separate the fan from the heatsink
it's easy breezy and once we got the fan
in the heatsink off we inspected the
goods on the motherboard the motherboard
is home to eight gigabytes of SK Hynix
RAM and the AMD Jaguar APU the Xbox
one's GPU runs at 853 megahertz while
the ps4 is GPU runs at 800 megahertz
we've come to the end of our teardown
which means it's time to talk
repairability and iFixit it's our
mission to teach people how to fix
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 Xbox
one's got a 8 out of 10 and here's why
on the upside only a few tools are
required to take the whole console apart
and once inside a clean no-nonsense
modular design allows the drives fan
heat think wireless card and front board
to be easily replaced but on the
downside the hard drive is relatively
difficult to access and possibly
formatted with a proprietary file system
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