hey guys I'm going to LA with iFixit and
I'm here with Evan one of our teardown
engineers hey guys how's it going we
took apart the iPad 5 so tell us why do
we code the iPad 5 first of all all
right so there's been 1 7 8 10 revisions
of iPads but this is the skiffs iPad
that they actually just called iPad and
on top of that I think Apple's finally
solidifying like their naming scheme you
have the iPad pro and you know just the
iPad your Mac books MacBook Pros MacBook
Airs so I think it's finally coming into
his own it actually makes sense to me
okay so Evan tell me a little bit about
the teardown the process what we found
had it how did it work out for you um so
basically throughout the teardown it was
just where you're playing spot the
differences for the most part you know
we opened up look at the cameras okay
look like air two parts look at the
display it kind of looks like an air one
part we looked at the motherboard and
pretty much even the layout of the
motherboard itself look very similar to
that of an iPad air one so it's an iPad
so what did it score so it sorta - on
our appear ability scale and that's
pretty average for an iPad we did find a
lot of adhesive you know getting this
display off is real uphill battle
however since the design is very similar
to an iPad air one well thankfully we
already have guides available so I think
a big story with this pair down is
compatibility tell us a little bit about
how you decide if a part is compatible
so basically I went down to our
warehouse picked out a bunch of iPad air
one in our two parts and it started
taking stuff out and seeing what's fit a
lot of the times the connectors would
fit but we'd have funky behavior like
the camera for the air one was really
red and the camera for the air tube
would cause boot loops but generally it
was pretty much a plug-and-play type
process we found out the headphone jack
works the front-facing camera doesn't
the rear facing camera does well most
importantly the digitizer is compatible
and that's most awesomely broken it's
the only component in
the LCDs were a bit of a funny story
we'd swapped all the LCDs into new iPods
and iPads old LCDs and discovered that
the new LCD will work in an old iPad and
it will look great but if you take an
old one and put it in this one it'll
look kind of dim and only show up at
2:20 mix when we're expecting around 400
okay even we got some questions from the
interwebs from social let's see Mohammed
is asking do you think they separated
the digitizer and LCD for either
repairability or was it cheaper tip
subdued it seems like a backward move
pieces yes to both those questions um
this is like a middle-of-the-road time
as you know they're targeting enterprise
customers and classrooms and this iPad
is highly repairable and it's targeted
at a lower price so the applicant came
back in that education market where they
were previously floundering a little bit
okay Evan we got one more question he
wants to know if we're going to be
selling the screens um yeah eventually
but for right now you know sourcing new
parts is always a little bit difficult
the good news is that since this is an
unfused display the digitizer is much
more likely to break than the LCD and we
do have plenty of those in stock from
the iPad air one them so it looks like
it was a pretty straightforward I've had
teardown yeah definitely you have to
clarify that saying with an iPad
teardown because like most iPad teardown
to start with a lot of heat and a lot of
prying right but once the digitizer gets
off you know it's pretty straightforward
we're seeing Phillips screws on the LCD
at least and then after that it's more
glue and an uphill battle awesome well
thanks for coming in Poulos if you want
to see the full teardown you can check
it out I don't fix it calm