If iFixit had been around when God combined the Earth, then Kyle Wiens and organisation would have been up before the initial sunrise - Torx drivers at the ready - and grabbed the initial sunrise as it came over the mouth of the pure Earth. Then they would have non-stop it up, photographed its chief inner-workings, and then waited 6 billion years or so for someone to invent an internet to post the cinema on.
So it is of march the innate demand of things that iFixit should open up the iPad 2 to find out what is inside. Short answer: not much. Long answer: roughly nothing but batteries.
Opening the new iPad is a lot trickier than the final one. Where the iPad 1 used Apple's standard form of clips to grip on the shade assembly, the iPad 2 front-panel is glued on, requiring a heat-gun, a few talent and a large span of balls to eliminate safely.
Once inside, you see the batteries, that are thinner and wider than before. They grip roughly the expect same charge, though: 25 Watt-hours vs. 24.8 Watt-hours of the original. Laid up alongside the batteries is the minuscule proof board, with Apple's A5 chip, the touchscreen controller, the Wi-Fi fragment (iFixit tore open the Wi-Fi-only model), mental recall and all else. The interior of the iPad unequivocally is roughly nothing but battery.
Arrayed around the edges, and squirreled divided in to the nooks and crannies of the unbending unibody box are the assorted camera assemblies, the gyroscope and accelerometer and the volume, tongue-tied and power switches. And that's about it. Sadly, the one thing we unequivocally longed for to see isn't shown, that's the magnets that are used to grip on the Smart Cover. Perhaps we'll see these in a correct guide in the future. I'd moreover similar to to see the inner-workings of the Smart Cover itself.
Internally together with externally, then, the iPad 2 is but a small expansion from its predecessor. An that's no bad thing. As a few wags on the Twitter have noted, Apple will expected make more allowance selling Smart Covers than its rivals will make selling tablets.
iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown [iFixit. Thanks, Miroslav!]
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