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A New Colorado Bill Could Blow a Hole in the Nation’s Strongest Right to Repair Law

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000

You can kill a Right to Repair law without ever voting against Right to Repair. You just carve out a category so broad, so fuzzy, and so lawyer-friendly that the companies you meant to regulate can simply point to it and walk away. That’s what Colorado Senate Bill 26-090 threatens to do. On paper, it looks technical. In practice, it could hollow out the strongest electronics Right to…

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Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks

Manuel Haeussermann — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:59:39 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Has a Brilliant Display with a Brutal Repair

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:01:32 +0000

There are two kinds of phone privacy: One keeps hackers from reading your messages. The other keeps out the nosy neighbor on the plane. Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra actually tackles the second one, with a built-in privacy display that is weird, clever, and far more interesting than the usual annual pile of brighter-screen-faster-chip filler. That made this teardown fun right away.

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Raspberry Pi Projects That Anyone Can Do

Charlie Sorrel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:46:00 +0000

This week was Pi Day, so what better time to celebrate the beloved tinkerer tool, the Raspberry Pi? You might know the Raspberry Pi as a tiny, low-powered computer which can be programmed to do just about anything. It’s also used in commercial products as a convenient off-the-shelf processor for hardware devices. A lot of Raspberry Pi projects require typing commands into a text-based…

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iPhone 17e Teardown Reveals an Upgrade 16e Owners Can Actually Use

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:47:26 +0000

The best thing about the iPhone 17e is not the chip bump, the modem update, or the extra storage. It is the ring of magnets Apple should have included last year. And you may not even have to buy a new phone to benefit. When we tore down the 16e, our verdict was pretty blunt: this was not the iPhone upgrade to get excited about. The specs were modest, and the missing MagSafe ring made the…

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Apple Finally Made a Repairable MacBook?

Manuel Haeussermann — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:39:13 +0000

MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:57:35 +0000

April Fool’s update: While this notebook may seem too-repairable to be true, Apple is not actually recalling it. Read on to find out just how well Apple designed their latest laptop. Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts. But the Neo stands out…

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Everything You Need to Know Before You Fix a MacBook

Manuel Haeussermann — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:01:38 +0000

The most affordable MacBook yet, the MacBook Neo, is currently in surgery on our teardown table! While our teardown engineers cook, we want to take a minute and look back at MacBook repair of yore. It’s been 20 years since Apple introduced the MacBook family of notebooks, their Intel-based vision of mobile computing. The form factor isn’t radically different today: it’s still a clamshell…

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How Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability

Charlie Sorrel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:13:46 +0000

Apple’s MacBooks haven’t always been monolithic, barely repairable slabs of aluminum, glass, and glue. They used to be almost delightful in their repairable features, from their batteries to their Wi-Fi cards. Powerbooks, iBooks, and especially early MacBooks showed what happens when Apple applies its design skills directly to repairability and maintenance, instead of to thinness above all.

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3D Printing Spare Parts Is Cool But Not A Silver Bullet

Charlie Sorrel — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:49:48 +0000

Last year my Baratza coffee grinder broke, and I was left to slum it with my ceramic-burr hand grinder with a bearing-mounted crank. It took a few days until a replacement part arrived, but what if I could have printed the broken part instead? 3D printers, specifically the filament/FDM printers popular for home and hobby use, are great for making widgets: cable winders, custom boxes and cases…

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