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iPod shuffle 3G dissected

iFixIt.com has disassembled the iPod Shuffle 3rd generation and notes that while it's not the most exciting device that Apple's introduced recently, the photos unveil its inner beauty. Interesting points: Normal headphones can be used without any adapters, except that the...

Tags: Gram, Apple iPod, Shuffle, Battery, Apple iPod Shuffle, iFixIt.com, Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-13

iFixIt tears down both new MacBooks

iFixIt.com has completed disassemblies of the MacBook Pro and MacBook. They found: Apple's new hardware design is significantly more elegant due to their use of the new 'Brick' manufacturing process. The design of both machines is significantly inspired by the...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, iFixIt.com, AirPort Card, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-16

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iFixit: Disassembling the new MacBook unibody

Almost immediately after being announced, iFixIt.com did a teardown YouTube video the new "unibody" polycarbonate MacBook. As has been previously noted Apple has added a LED display, upgraded processor, added curves, increased battery life. Apple has also quietly removed the FireWire port, IR...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Bluetooth Antenna, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-21

News to know: RIM, Facebook TOS, Apple-Adobe, Android

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Andrew Nusca: SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating Sam Diaz: Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-02-18

iFixIt dissects the unibody MacBook Pro 17-inch (Updated)

After a month delay, the good dudes over at iFixIt.com got their hands on the new MacBook Pro 17-inch and promptly disassembled it. Some things they learned: Even after paying Apple $2799, this computer STILL doesn't come with a Mini DisplayPort adapter. There are...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Battery, Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, iFixIt, Bluetooth Board, Engineering, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-17

29 screws

Last night I had the pleasure of installing a hard drive in the new "unibody" MacBook Pro, and it seems strange to even type those words after years of fighting with the 29 screws required to replace the HDD on the previous generation of MacBook Pro. Yesterday...

Tags: Hard Drive, Screw, MBP, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-12

News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Outsourcing, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Tearing down the iPhone 3G

iFixIt.com was one of the first to get their hands on iPhone 3G and they promptly ripped theirs apart to report on its internal working and components. Since then TechOnline has taken things to the next level â€" submitting individual chips to an acid bath to reveal their...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Business Operations, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Infineon Technologies AG, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-07-14

iPhone 3G dissected in NZ

As I've been covering all week Luke Soules from iFixIt.com is in New Zealand and got to purchase one of the first iPhone 3Gs available at 12:01am NZT and he promptly took it apart. Some notes: The iPhone 3G cost them NZ$979 without a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-07-10

NZ line-sitter Luke Soules featured in Computerworld

iFixIt.com line-sitter Luke Soules who flew to New Zealand to be one of the first to tear down the iPhone 3G was featured in the New Zealand edition of Computerworld in a piece titled "American ready to rip iPhone 3G apart." Soules flew in from California on Wednesday afternoon...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Computerworld, Consumer Electronics, jason D. O'Grady, New Zealand, Personal Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs

Blog posts 2008-07-09

News to know: Linux; iPhone; Gmail; Insecure antivirus software; SAP

Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com Dennis Howlett: Ticking bombs in enterprise land Garett Rogers: Your Gmail is now a lot more secure Dancho Danchev: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Linux, Google Gmail, SAP AG, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

iFixIt is traveling to New Zealand to be the first to tear down iPhone 3G

And I thought that I was obsessive. I'll be heading to the Apple store in Atlantic City at 7 a.m. on Friday to cover iDay 3G with fellow PowerPage podcaster Rob Parker but just being in the eastern time zone isn't soon enough for some people. The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, iFixIt, jason D. O'Grady, New Zealand, Personal Technology, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-07-07

How-to: MacBook Pro hard drive transplant

I recently purchased a new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and wanted to share some of the intricacies of swapping out the hard drive.Whenever I place an order for a new just-released machine from Apple I usually buy one of the stock configurations to avoid the potential delay of the...

Tags: hard drive, MBP, MeBook, Hardware, MacBook Pro

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Inside Apple's 802.11n adapter

It may be Apple's worst-kept secret, but it's a secret nonetheless: the company is including wireless cards in the new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo that support the draft 802.11n wireless protocol.The final 802.11n specification is projected to be released in December 2006 but that could slip as far back...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, adapter, IEEE 802.11n, card, wireless card, Apple Computer Inc., wireless

Blog posts 2006-10-31