M3 Macbook Air - same old, same old
About as fixable as the Middle East
The iFixit team have voided the latest M3 MacBook Air warranty to see how repairable it is and discovered that there is not much difference under the bonnet from the last model.
Google Pixel 8 parts are now on sale
But they'll cost you a bomb
Google Pixel 8 parts are now up for grabs on iFixit's Pixel parts shop.
Fairphone 5 gets perfect score from iFixit
Could last ten years
The iFixit team pulled apart the newest Fairphone 5 smartphone and awarded its highest score for repairability: 10 out of 10.
Microsoft flogs replacement components for Surface
Displays, batteries, SSDs you name it
Microsoft is starting to sell replacement components for its Surface devices. The software giant now supplies replacement parts in the Microsoft Store, allowing Surface owners to replace their displays, batteries and SSDs.
Logitech partners with DIY repair specialists iFixit
Help fix your sick mouse
Logitech and DIY repair specialists iFixit are working together to help you fix your gear so that you don't have to buy something new when your old hardware just needs to be fixed.
Nokia allows people to fix their own phone
New easy-to-fix handset released
Nokia has released a handset that users can fix themselves, making it possible to keep phones in service longer.
iFixit rubbishes Apple's repair scheme
Expensive, pricey and not fit for the purpose -- Apple's repair programme is rubbish too
iFixit has rubbished Apple's latest "improvements" to its DIY repair programme so that it can heal borked MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops equipped with M1 chips (including the Pro and Max). The problem is that Apple has managed to make its gear even less repairable than ever before.
Apple’s “self-repair programme” is pants
iFixit rubbishes the whole operation
While the Tame Apple Press has been telling the world+dog how wonderful their favourite company is for allowing fanboys to repair phones that they have paid a fortune for, those who know about repairing kits say the scheme is rubbish.
iFixit slams Apple, Samsung and Microsoft
Design manipulation
iFixit co-founder and CEO Kyle Wiens has exposed how companies including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft manipulate the design of their products and the supply chain to prevent consumers and third-party repairers from accessing necessary tools and parts to repair products such as smartphones and laptops.
Google Pixel 3a series is quite easy to repair
iFixit gives them a good repairability score
Now that Google's affordable Pixel 3a smartphones are released, it was just a matter of time before they get a teardown by iFixit, giving them a good repairability score.