Hi guys, remember the Asus Eee Transformer Prime teardown? We promised you a closer look inside the chips and here you have it. Just check out the link in the bottom and you¨ll be taken to chipworks who have conducted some closer research on the silicon within this wondertablet.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer prime is a relatively new tablet on the market, mostly known for its ability to “transform” from tablet to netbook with a keyboard dock. It features 18hours of battery life, which is 8 more hours of fun than you get with an ipad. Also it has a quad core tegra, which certainly makes it the fastest tablet on the market. But Asus has received a lot of critic over the past few weeks mainly due to GPS issues and the fact that the bootloader is locked (aka no custom roms). Apparently the GPS issues are due to the fact that the antenna tries to receive signals through a metal plating, which is impossible. And even though the ipad for example is also covered in metal it has plastic openings for signals to pass through. There has been an update to fix this problem but since its a design flaw it can only be tweaked — not fixed by updates.
Our friends at Chipworks have made an elaborate teardown, so check that out below. Click on an image to enlarge it and there will be a description on every image!
Meanwhile they are still doing some lab work to produce die photos including a backside poly of the Tegra 3 so you can see the full die layout, so keep your eyes open for more!
Apple Thnderbolt cable
This must be the first teardown of a cable we’ve ever had, and i seriously didn’t think it could be that exiting, on the other hand it is a lot better than you might think.
As usual iFixit has made a teardown of one of the latest gadgets, and they found twelve larger chips and a bunch of other bantam components within Apple’s first Thunderbolt cable, and they didn’t hesitate to suggest that the $50 asking price was at least somewhat justified. But this one is a little different, adding two more chips and a clearer text on the large one. (more…)
Imac teardown
Yesterday apple released a new set of imacs, we didn’t post them because the only new thing was the “thunderbolt i/o port” but since its only apples lame excuse for usb5.0 combined with hdmi. Either how the teardown might be a little more interesting. So here we go:
Ipad 2 inside view
The ipad 2 is here, and we all know what that means. Teradown! Here we get an inside look on the brand new apple tablet. But as the title says, it’s close to impossible to open it without breaking the screen, why dosen’t apple want us to open their products? First the flower screws on the iphone 4 and now the adhesive thing on the ipad2, oh well. Here is a video and some shots.
