Apple’s latest iPad Pro is very thin, but it’s also clearly a step forward in terms of repairability. iFixit’s teardown of the tablet revealed that the iPad Pro’s 38.99Wh battery will inevitably wear out and need to be replaced, but it’s actually pretty easy to find. iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari said in the video that this change “can save hours of repair time” compared to past iPad Pro models.
To achieve this, you still need to remove the glued tandem OLED screen, which iFixit points out in the video and its accompanying blog. This is not two panels smashed together, but an OLED board with each OLED diode having more Multiple electroluminescent layers. iFixit was able to pull out the battery almost instantly when the screen was out of the way (after removing the camera assembly and working on the aluminum lip beneath it, which makes some of the tabs hard to access). He noted that with previous models, you had to remove “all the major components.”
But after that, thinness proved to be an issue for iFixit, as many parts were glued together, including the tablet’s logic board. In a blog post, which the site goes into more detail here , it’s mentioned that the glue means removing the speakers will break them, and that the tablet’s daughterboard is prone to accidental bending.
The site also found that the 256GB model uses only one NAND storage chip, which means it’s technically slower than dual-die storage.as some edge Readers may recall that this was also the case with the entry-level storage tier of the M2 MacBook Air. But as we pointed out at the time (and as iFixit said on its blog), those who don’t push the device won’t notice this, and those who do will likely want more storage, anyway.
But you can’t say the same about Apple’s new $129 Apple Pencil Pro, which shouldn’t shock anyone. Mokhtari was forced to use an ultrasonic cutter to cut the pencil, a moment he described as “the worst ASMR video in the world.” (This happens after five minutes, in case you want to mute the video immediately to avoid the tool’s ear-piercing scream.) Unlike the iPad Pro itself, the Pencil Pro’s battery is the last thing he has access to.
Of course, by the time Mohtari was finished, the pencil was completely ruined. He said the site will soon have a full chip ID, including images of the MEMS sensors that drive the pencil’s barrel scrolling function, allowing you to twist the pencil to adjust the rotation of the art tool on the screen.
