Right to Repair WSJ Illustrates Need for Right to Repair with Two Busted MacBooks Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal used to have two water-damaged MacBooks, a Pro and an Air. After checking with a few repair shops, she now has a working… August 30, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Teardowns The Playdate Teardown: A Look Inside This Retro Gaming Handheld This text is based on a shooting script for our Playdate teardown. It may not precisely match the dialogue in the full video. Check out our full web teardown for… August 26, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
How To How to Get Updates on Your End-of-Life Chromebook Note (Aug. 2021): Since this post was first published (July 2019), we’ve learned that CloudReady (now owned by Google) can be difficult to get working on newer (2018 and later)… August 25, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Video 5 Things You Should Know About Fixing: Samsung Phones Note: The transcript below comes from a shooting script; it may not perfectly represent the dialog in the finished video. If you’re thinking about repairing your own Samsung phone, we… August 19, 2021 by Jairo Valencia - iFixit
E-Waste Don’t Upgrade Your Phone (Yet!) This transcript comes from a pre-written script; it may not perfectly represent the finished video. In the next few months pretty much every company is going to be releasing new… August 13, 2021 by Michael Degnan
Tech News The Coming Battle Over Hacking Your Own Car I’m ambivalent about my car, a 2013 Ford C-Max. Ford feels the same, discontinuing the model five years after launch. But when my wife and I bought it, the hybrid… August 12, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News Samsung’s Flipping Bad Foldable Idea: Add More Glue Samsung has an idea how to make its expensive, alpha-tech folding phones more appealing to mainstream customers who might be worried about durability. Unfortunately, it’s one of the worst ideas:… August 11, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
