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Nexus Q Teardown: Not That American After All
Last week, Google announced the strange-looking Nexus Q: a media streamer built by Americans for… well, we’re not exactly sure who it’s for. But iFixit has taken a look inside, and it’s not quite as American Google might have you think it is.
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3D NAND Chips Are Going To Make High-Capacity SSDs A Reality
SSDs are wonderful things that massively speed up your computer, and they’re getting cheaper too. But currently they don’t offer the capacity that some users demand. Fortunately, that could all be about to change.
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Brilliant Spinning Heatsink Cools CPUs 30 Times More Efficiently
Most computers use a two-step process to cool the CPU. First, a heat exchanger pasted to the processor draws the warmth away. And then a combination of a heatsink and fans dissipate it away from the PC. But by merging those two steps into one, this spinning cooler ends up being greater than the sum…
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MacBook Retina Display Teardown: 4X The Pixels In Smaller Hardware
Last week, the gadget surgeons at iFixit got their hands on a new retina display MacBook Pro and promptly disassembled it only to realise that it’s going to be basically impossible to repair on your own. Now they’ve gone after the sophisticated display itself to see its ultra-resolution guts up close.