Legislation Why Your Laptop Batteries Are Still So Tiny No matter how fast powerful laptops get, and no matter how ridiculously big and beefy a portable gaming rig might be, their batteries will never be any bigger than they… November 18, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
How Tech Works How To Stop Your Devices From Being So Annoying Home appliances and portable devices all contribute to a kind of notification pollution. Our gadgets are too annoying, and it's time to make them stop. November 16, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Repair Guides A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Controller Drift (Using Quantum Physics) We're not joking. This is how you can replace your failure prone potentiometer sticks with drift-proof Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sticks. November 7, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
How To Mod Kits Can Bring Old Gear Back to Life, Better than Ever Sometimes, it’s possible to go beyond repair, and improve on the original. People have been customizing their gear for years, whether it’s putting new pickups into a guitar, swapping an… October 15, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Skills Microsoldering School, Day Three: BGA Reballing This post is the third of a five part series on microsoldering. If you haven’t yet, you probably want to check out part 1 and part 2 first. I’m iFixit’s… October 5, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
How Tech Works What Is mAh and Why Is It Bad for Measuring Battery Capacity? tl;dr: If you’re comparing smartphone batteries, the mAh values will usually work. Otherwise, look for a battery’s watt-hour (Wh) value to get a more universal capacity rating. This is the… September 19, 2024 by Arthur Shi - iFixit
How To 6 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your iPhone Battery Phone's not holding a charge? Don't replace the whole thing—just change the battery! September 16, 2024 by Arthur Shi - iFixit
Tech News What You Should Know Before You Fix Your Steam Deck With the Steam Deck, Valve has established a new competitor in the handheld gaming space that was previously dominated by Nintendo. They’ve done so with a device that, while not… August 27, 2024 by Manuel Haeussermann - iFixit
How To What You Should Know Before You Fix Your PlayStation Fixing your PlayStation is a little more complex than fixing up your Nintendo Switch, because while the Switch is one console with a few variations, “PlayStation” comprises the entirety of… August 26, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Skills Microsoldering School, Day Two: To Fix the Problem, You First Have to Find the Problem This post is the second of a five part series on microsoldering. Part one can be found here. I’m iFixit’s Lead Teardown Technician, and I decided recently that it was… August 21, 2024 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit