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When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time before ASICs and ADCs, which had to accomplish so much with discrete components and a lot of engineering ingenuity. Unfortunately, though, those clever hacks that […]
Apple is making it more affordable to repair the MacBook Pro. Apple will dramatically reduce the cost of speaker repair in the Apple Silicon 14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro, ending the longstanding need to buy a whole replacement top case. The replacement of damaged speakers in these MacBook Pro models remains complex, but […]
Smartphones today are very complex products, which is why manufacturers have long discouraged or even disallowed owners from opening up theirs just to repair a single part. Most people probably don’t have the skills for that anyway, but the old policies also prevented small third-party businesses from offering more accessible repair services. That has been […]
OnePlus has finally revealed the cost of the parts repair of its new OnePlus 13 model. The OnePlus 13 made its debut just a few days ago, joining the flagship smartphone melee in the last quarter of the year. It is one of the first models equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which […]
Some iPhone 14 Plus units have an issue that affects the rear camera of the device. Apple has determined that “a very small percentage” of iPhone 14 Plus units have a rear camera issue, and has launched a repair program to fix it. The company says that iPhone 14 Plus units manufactured between April 10 […]
Apple has determined that “a very small percentage” of iPhone 14 Plus models are having rear camera issues, and it has launched a service program to repair them for free. If your phone isn’t showing a preview when you use its rear camera, then you may be eligible to get your phone fixed at no […]
Over the years, Apple has gone all-in on parts pairing. Virtually every component in an iPhone and iPad has a unique ID that’s kept in a big database over at Apple, which limits replacement parts to only those which have their pairing with the host system officially sanctified by Apple. With iOS 18 there seems […]
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that at some point, a part will go bad and we’ll learn that it’s no longer available from the dealer or in the aftermarket, at least at a reasonable cost. We might get lucky and find […]
[DTSS_Smudge] correctly intuits that if you are interested in an old Heathkit signal generator, you probably already know how to solder. So, in a recent video, he focused on the components he decided to update for safety and other reasons. Meanwhile, we get treated to a nice teardown of this iconic piece of test gear. […]