iPads have always been criticized for
being just a big iPhone but Apple is
hoping to change that with their new
iPad pro with its improved processor
refined multi-touch technology and huge
12 point 9 inch Retina display Apple
thinks you're gonna find more uses for
this massive iPad than just surfing the
web and reading ebooks whether or not
that will happen is still up in the air
but what we do know is that we have one
and we're gonna tear it down
hi I'm going to loom with iFixit and
today we're tearing down the brand new
iPad pro the iPad pro measures in at
three hundred five point seven by two
hundred twenty point six millimeters it
is only six point nine millimeters thick
and our Wi-Fi model weighs just 713
grams the iPad pro has all the familiar
features of an iPad including a home
button with touch ID in the same volume
and power buttons but it gains some
interesting additions including a second
set of speakers on the top of the iPad
and the new smart connector for docking
the smart Keyboard we know what it takes
to get into an iPad and the pro is no
different so we got our eye opener out
and set to work on heating up the
adhesive holding the display on with the
adhesive out of the way we get our first
peek inside but it's just that the
display connects to the logic board
which is in the center of the iPad
making for a tricky removal to
disconnect the display we actually
needed to support its weight while we
took out the screws holding the display
cable bracket on once we got it all
disconnected we got a closer look at
this massive display this is a twelve
point nine inch LED backlit widescreen
multi-touch display with a resolution of
2732 by 2048 and a pixel density of 264
pixels per inch on to the cameras while
just about everything in this tablet has
been billed as bigger and better than
previous devices these cameras seem to
be the same as those found in the iPad
air 2 the rear facing camera captures
the same 8 megapixel images and 1080p
video at 30 frames per second and the
front-facing camera shoots 1.2 megapixel
images and 720p video to get to the
cables connecting everything else to the
logic board we first have to remove the
shielding which protects the logic board
from interfere
with it removed we set our sights on the
headphone jack just like the iPad air 2
this headphone jack has one of the two
ambient light sensors attached to it
finally we got to one of the four highly
anticipated speakers
although these speakers share a common
design their function changes depending
on the tablet orientation whether in
portrait or landscape mode the pro
always entire frequencies to the topmost
speaker to produce a more balanced sound
after disconnecting a few more speaker
cables some antennas and a flex cable
that seems to run beneath the battery
cell to drive the smart connector
contacts we get the logic board free
unfortunately it seems the Lightning
connector is coming along for the ride -
since it's soldered to the board on the
board we see the a9x chip with 64-bit
architecture paired with the m9 motion
coprocessor four gigabytes of sk hynix
lpddr4 ram and 32 gigabytes of toshiba
made nand flash storage to see a
complete list of chips head on over to
our teardown at ifixit.com lastly we
turn our attention to the battery and
guess what we can leave our eyeopener's
colds and apple has included adhesive
pull tabs for this battery it's the
first time we've seen that in any iPad
this is a three point seven 7 volt
thirty eight point eight watt hour ten
thousand three hundred seven milliamp
hour battery that Apple says will give
you up to ten hours of web surfing on
Wi-Fi 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 repair
everything so we give every gadget we
tear down a repair ability score between
one and ten ten being the easiest to
repair and one being the most difficult
the iPad pro scored a three out of ten
and here's why on the upside the battery
is not soldered to the logic board and
can now be removed with adhesive tabs
greatly simplifying battery removal the
smart connector port is virtually
impossible to replace but incorporates
no moving parts and is unlikely to fail
the LCD and front panel glass are fused
together this slightly simplifies the
opening procedure but on the downside
the fused front panel increases the cost
of screen repair
and the risk of damaging the LCD when
opening and finally gobs of adhesive
hold everything in place making all
repairs more difficult for the complete
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