it's the Xbox 1s all digital edition this version of the Xbox one lacks an
optical drive but has it gained anything in exchange there's only one way to find
out and that's to tear it down flipping the Xbox 1s all digital edition over we
find a greeting from the fine folks at Microsoft
the first stop to getting your Xbox 1s all digital edition is to remove a
tamper evidence sticker hoping to find a screw no screw here so it looks like
we're going to be popping some clips the next step requires some brute force the
clips holding the lower case on are quite strong and our handy plastic
spudger was no match for them fortunately our pro tech comes with a
metal version that is able to pop all the clips allowing us to lift the
component up and off like previous versions of the Xbox 1s all the goodies
are enclosed in a metal case which itself is enclosed in the plastic outer
case to get the metal case out we need to first remove the six long green
screws holding everything together we now have access to the two boards
connected to the outside of the metal case which are a front panel board and a
Wi-Fi board removing a couple more screws allows us to lift the top off the
metal case revealing a very sparse interior the hard drive bracket and
power supply are secured to the bottom of the case with screws and once you
remove them you can lift the hard drive up and away revealing their connectors
the hard drive is a standard spinning 5400 rpm one terabyte Seagate drive but
if you're thinking about swapping it out for a much faster SSD we've got some bad
news while it may be fairly easy to access installing the firmware for the
Xbox one S is not an easy task for beginners the power supply comes out
next and its specs seem to match the power supply we found in the original
Xbox 1s looks like no changes here we remove the last of the screws and lift
the motherboard out of the metal case this springy X bracket is all that's
holding the fan and heatsink to the motherboard and once we pop it off we're
able to separate them on the board we can spot the eight core Jaguar CPU which
runs at one point seven five gigahertz and the eight gigabytes of SK Hynix made
RAM with our Xbox 1s all digital version disassembled
it's time to talk repairability the Xbox one s all digital scored an 8 out of 10
and here's why on the up side only a few tools are
required to take the whole console apart once inside a clean no-nonsense modular
design allows the harddrive fan heatsink PSU wireless board and front daughter
board to be easily replaced viewer interlocking body panels and a simpler
clip arrangement make opening this generation of Xbox easier than the
original Xbox one but on the downside replacing the hard drive will require
some difficult hackery to make it serviceable