iFixit: If you try to repair the Surface Pro, you’re probably gonna break it

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro tablet PC is a steady improvement over the Surface RT, but the thing is extremely hard to repair.

iPad 4 teardown reveals, shockingly, it’s much like the iPad 3

Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. In other cases, however, the cover tells you exactly what's in the book.

Microsoft’s Surface is easier to repair than iPad, but worse than Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7

A new gadget, a new naughty teardown from the repair gurus at iFixit.

Teardown: new 13″ retina MacBook Pro is twice as repairable as the 15″ (which isn’t saying much)

The original retina MacBook Pro, the 15" model, earned a miserly 1/10 in iFixit's repairability score. Now the teardown specialists have ruthlessly ripped apart Apple's innocent new 13" retina MacBook Pro, and the results are in.

iFixit: The Kindle Fire HD is far easer to fix than the iPad

Amazon's Kindle HD is far easier to repair than the iPad, but a tad harder to take apart than the original Kindle Fire.

Google Nexus Q teardown reveals a big ball of boring

We’re still not sure what Google hopes to accomplish with its $300 Nexus Q media streamer (I suspect even Google isn’t sure), but that’s not stopping the folks at iFixit from ripping Google’s  bowling ball apart.

But if you were …

Nexus 7 easier to repair than iPad, longer-living than Kindle Fire, teardown reveals

Google’s just-announced Nexus 7 tablet is variously called a threat to Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Apple’s larger iPad. A teardown by the folks at iFixit find both Amazon and Apple could learn a few things from the Android-powered device. At …

iFixit tears down MacBook Pro’s new Retina display — and it breaks

The assessment that the MacBook Pro with Retina Display is the “least repairable laptop ever” is holding true. The repair experts at iFixit have torn down the Retina display and found it ridiculously fragile.

Despite calling the Retina display an …

Retina MacBook Pro is the least repairable laptop ever, says iFixit

Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina Display is ridiculously fast and thin — but you can forget about ever taking it apart.

The repair gurus at iFixit unveiled their teardown of the Retina MacBook Pro this morning, and thanks to …

iFixit spins off Dozuki CMS to let anyone make killer technical docs

As someone who used to write technical documentation for a living, I can assure you that nobody likes reading that crap. But iFixit, the company that’s become famous for its repair guides and gadget teardowns, has somehow managed to make …

iFixit tears down the new iPad, finds Samsung LCD

Those glorious geeks at iFixit have gotten their hands on Apple’s new iPad, and are currently in the midst of tearing it apart to reveal its lovely innards.

So far, the site has confirmed that the new iPad is rocking …

Sony PlayStation Vita teardown reveals the guts of the high-end portable gaming device

The Sony PlayStation Vita goes on sale in stores next week, but the folks at iFixit have already torn one apart to figure out what’s inside.

If the device takes off, then the teardown will give a clue as to …

iPad-driven car repair: Dozuki could make it commonplace

If you knew you could use an iPad-based manual to fix a Dewalt cordless drill, you might be more likely to buy that model than the Black & Decker model sitting next to it on the shelf.

That’s the bet …