Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Extra millimeter on Google Nexus 7 makes it more repairable than iPad

Extra millimeter on Google Nexus 7 makes it more repairable than iPad:





The Google Nexus 7 tablet and its big ol' battery.





The sleek new Google Nexus 7 tablet is just a hair thicker than the iPad—but that's not a disadvantage at all for the tinkerers who like to pry gadgets open and fix them when things go wrong.
According to the new iFixit teardown of the Nexus 7, it's an extra millimeter of thickness that makes all the difference in the world when it comes to repairability. While the iPad teardown gave Apple's tablet a repairability score of two out of 10 on the iFixit scale, the Android-based Nexus 7 received a score of, appropriately, seven, meaning it is much easier to repair.
Opening the Nexus 7, if you have the right tool, is "like cutting through butter, thanks to its retaining clips around the perimeter of the device," iFixit wrote.
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