Consumer Rights We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership It's official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. In a particularly spectacular display… April 21, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns Retina MacBook 2015 Teardown With an all-new design, an updated trackpad, and a super sleek chassis, the Retina MacBook 2015 is being touted as “the future of the notebook.” Sure, it looks awesome on… April 15, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Teardowns Galaxy S6 Teardown: Let’s All Play a Dirge for Repair The Samsung Galaxy S6 abandoned the display-first entry of the S5 and instead features a stubbornly-glued back panel in the place of an easily-accessed battery. And you still run the… April 14, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Legislation Uncle Sam Dumps EPEAT Green Standard The federal government just dropped EPEAT from its green electronics standards. The policy change—made without warning—was part of an updated executive order issued last month, which simply omitted EPEAT from… April 10, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Teardowns Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Teardown The latest installment in Samsung’s Galaxy series, the S6 Edge, flaunts a curvy figure and slim body that’s sure to bring all the boys to the yard. But beauty is… April 7, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Teardowns Apple Watch Teardown Hey guys, it's time. Everyone said it was impossible, but we managed to get our hands on an Apple Watch. We didn’t waste a second before tearing it down. We… April 1, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
iFixit iFaxit: Introducing the Future of Repair Documentation At iFixit, it’s our mission to bring repair documentation into the 21st century: well written, beautifully photographed, always up-to-date, and usable by the modern worker in a variety of applications.… April 1, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Repair Stories Smashed, Shorted, and Soldered: How I Got My Broken Drone Airborne Again I love my Hubsan X4 107L—a 30-gram micro-quadcopter that is supposedly built to take all the abuse you can throw at it. But a series of bad crashes left my… March 30, 2015 by Evan Noronha
Product Design Planned Obsolescence: Your Stuff Really Is Breaking Faster You aren’t imagining it. Turns out, your stuff really is breaking down more quickly than before. A recent study by a European environmental agency just confirmed it: the lifespan of… March 18, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
How Tech Works How’s That Newfangled Force Touch Trackpad Work? Our teardown engineer, the auspicious Andrew Goldberg, sits down with Gwendolyn Gay, host of iFixit's YouTube channel, to explain the mysterious inner workings of the Force Touch trackpad. Check out… March 13, 2015 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
