Microsoft Surface tablet gets the teardown treatment, repairability score below average
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Let's start with the battery: inside the Microsoft Surface RT resides a 31.5Wh Samsung battery rated at 7.4 volts. In comparison, the iPad 2's cell has a capacity of only 25Wh, but the one inside the 3rd and 4th generation iPads is rated much higher at 42.5Wh. In case you are wondering, yes, the battery can be removed as it is only glued, not soldered to the device's motherboard or frame.
Few more components that Samsung provided were the 10.6-inch LCD screen and the NAND flash memory used for storage. The 2 gigabytes of DDR3 RAM, however, have been supplied by Micron. The guys also found a Wolfson DAC, a Wi-Fi MIMO chip by Marvell, and a pair of 720p cameras – one on the front and one in the back, that were nearly identical in size and shape.
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source: iFixit
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8 Comments
1. gothicheart posted on 29 Oct 2012, 09:14 6 2
i'm just surprised why phonearena has been trying to put down the surface for the entirety of this whole day, just check out all your news for the whole day, how bias can you be, when you put news and review even on every icrap case available. why look for news about repairabilty ahead of news about a gadgets durability, which everybody has seen from other websites the surface's durability on the drop tests. Maybe that is one test we'd like to see, try dropping every tablet there is. People are looking for unbiased news and review... :(
2. Cyan3boN posted on 29 Oct 2012, 09:26 1 2
The RT was released just days ago man. they will keep posting articles till it all cools off. its normal, its what every mobile tech site does.
3. antmiu2 posted on 29 Oct 2012, 09:37 3 1
i haven't seen phonearena post something like this about ipads
4. the_best posted on 29 Oct 2012, 10:33 0 1
thats becaus the ipad apparantly is worse.. you wouldnt wanna hurt apple
5. PhoneArenaUser posted on 29 Oct 2012, 10:37 0 0
New iPad (a.k.a. iPad 3) internal parts are based on hot glue and it makes replacement of battery or any other fixing works to an horror...
6. JeffdaBeat posted on 29 Oct 2012, 10:54 1 1
They post tear down and repairability with each new iPad. They also usually post drop tests, cost to manufacturer, and whatever problems people find with the first batch (AntennaGate, light bleed, easy scuffing, yellowing of the screens). So, I have to disagree with you on this one.
7. easymomo posted on 29 Oct 2012, 12:11 0 1
@JeffdaBeat, me too. Every single trouble with iThings is reported by phonearena.
8. sadaivadai posted on 29 Oct 2012, 12:14 0 0
Why can't you highlight the words better "than the iPad" ??
