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iPhone Duo Teardown: The Most Repairable Foldable Has a Huge Screen Problem

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:38:06 +0000

Apple’s folding iPhone finally made it to our teardown table. Some owners’ screens didn’t make it through setup. After fifteen years of patents and rumors, the iPhone Duo is here, and repair shops may not have long to wait for their first customers. Owners are already reporting cracks and bright lines along the fold. Though Apple’s offering replacement units for now, any out-of-warranty…

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How the iPhone Duo’s Crazy Repair Prices Compare

Charlie Sorrel — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:10:27 +0000

Apple has listed the prices for iPhone Duo repairs, and there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that you will be able to peel off the screen’s cover layer and replace it. The bad news is that “inner display damage” is going to cost more than a brand-new iPhone 17 to get fixed. Apple just published its prices for in-house iPhone Duo repairs, and they’re pretty much what you’d…

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This International Repair Day, iFixit and Google Have Something for Your Repair Café

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

One ThinkPad owner replaced the fan, refreshed the thermal paste, and reinstalled Windows. But their laptop still took minutes to boot. After installing ChromeOS Flex, it started in seconds. PCWorld’s Alaina Yee made a retired ThinkPad X240 responsive again without even replacing its old hard drive. Another user installed Flex on their father’s old computer, which he couldn’t afford to replace…

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Why Isn’t Everyone Turning Their Old Laptops into Mini Desktop PCs?

Charlie Sorrel — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:16:06 +0000

Modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops are awesome (and extremely rare), especially now that Rammageddon is making new machines so crazy expensive. But one question remains: What do you do with the leftover parts you end up with after a CPU, RAM, or storage upgrade? You could definitely donate them, but you could also turn them into a tiny desktop computer. MNT, makers of the cyberdeckian…

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Scars Can Be Mended: Repair Lessons from the USS Hornet

Shahram Mokhtari — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:24:56 +0000

From the pier in Alameda, the USS Hornet is imposing: a wall of grey steel that rises out of the water and just keeps going. At 872 feet, she’s more than 200 feet shorter than the US Navy’s newest carriers. A giant when she was built in 1943, she’s mid-sized at best today. I was there for Instrumental’s Build Better Summit, a gathering of the people who decide how electronics get made.

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Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Teardown Reveals a Gap in Right to Repair Coverage

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:31:33 +0000

We just tore down the two latest Apple Watches. And Apple, we need to have a talk. Let’s cut to the chase: there’s no big repairability news here. The Series 12 got a battery pull tab, which, along with some other small architecture changes, brought it up by a point on our repairability scale. The Ultra 4 is essentially the same as its predecessors. Apple Watch is falling behind the rest…

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“I Used to Just Call a Guy”: The Struggle to Get Repair Information

Thomas Opsomer — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:10:50 +0000

This article originally appeared on repair.eu, the site of the Right to Repair Europe coalition, on September 16, 2026. We recently reported on the hit-or-miss availability of repair-related information that consumers are entitled to in our blog post “One Year Into EU Ecodesign Rules, 80% of Smartphones Still Lack Required Repair Information“. While you may have a hard time accessing repair…

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AirPods 5 Are the Least Unrepairable AirPods Yet

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:25:43 +0000

We’ve bled for AirPods. We’ve sliced them, melted them, cursed at them. For ten years, Apple’s wireless earbuds have earned a well-deserved 0 out of 10 for repairability. The AirPods 5 finally broke that streak. They’re the most repairable AirPods earbuds ever. Which isn’t saying much: they still earn just a 2 out of 10, and the charging case is as difficult to open as ever. But for the first…

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Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:01:11 +0000

Finally, finally, the Steam Frame is here! Five years ago, rumors of an internal Valve project codenamed Deckard rocked the VR enthusiast world. Since then, gamers have salivated over the dream of a wearable all-in-one PC that could play both dedicated VR games and the rest of their Steam libraries, without the hassle of a tether or base stations. We’ve been partnered with Valve since…

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Inside the Tiny Unfixable Eye: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Teardown

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:00:57 +0000

The iPhone 18 Pro’s little mechanical pupil is irresistible. A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope. We weren’t prepared for the screen’s plastic frame to tear apart on three of the four phones we opened, though. More on that later. There’s plenty to admire inside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, from that intricate variable aperture…

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