Tech News The Indie Smartwatch That’s Doing Everything Right Pocuter specializes in making tiny computers, like the Pocuter One—and now they’re bringing this small-scale expertise to smartwatches. If you liked the Pebble, you’ll love the Spectra, a hackable and… November 22, 2024 by Carsten Frauenheim - iFixit
Opinion Our Desire for New Is Killing the Planet—and Us Ever found yourself scrolling through the latest deals, convincing yourself that you need the upgrade? “It’s faster, shinier, better,” the ad promises. Even though your current gadget works just fine,… November 19, 2024 by Manuel Haeussermann - iFixit
Teardowns Could You Hack a New Mac mini SSD? Calling all modders, hackers, and makers! The new Mac mini is teasing us with upgradeable storage—a tantalizing possibility that feels just out of reach. It’s not like our PCMR friends… November 19, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Legislation Why Your Laptop Batteries Are Still So Tiny No matter how fast powerful laptops get, and no matter how ridiculously big and beefy a portable gaming rig might be, their batteries will never be any bigger than they… November 18, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
How Tech Works How To Stop Your Devices From Being So Annoying Home appliances and portable devices all contribute to a kind of notification pollution. Our gadgets are too annoying, and it's time to make them stop. November 16, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Teardowns PS5 Pro Teardown: Is a Battery Hatch This Year’s Hottest Repair Trend? Sony’s PS5 Pro is widely being billed as a generational upgrade to the pandemic era PS5 and its progenitor, the PS5 Slim. According to tech reviewers, the new custom made… November 15, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Teardowns All Hail the Return of Upgradeable Storage! Mac mini 2024 Teardown It shouldn’t be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple’s cute new 2024 Mac mini, that’s exactly where we are. It’s possible to pop… November 12, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Activism Canada Just Fixed Copyright Law for Repair What do ice cream machines, Xboxes, and tractors have in common? Fixing them just became legal in Canada: They all have certain repairs that are blocked by software called technological… November 11, 2024 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Guides A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Controller Drift (Using Quantum Physics) We're not joking. This is how you can replace your failure prone potentiometer sticks with drift-proof Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sticks. November 7, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Hacks Zen and the Art of Never Giving Up Repair is a process of guessing, testing, tinkering, and hoping. And sometimes you come across a job so vexing that by the end of it, you realize your skills—and, more… November 2, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
