iFixit: New $329 iPad is a throwback to the original iPad Air

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Apple's $329 iPad, formally dubbed the iPad (5th generation), is rather a lot just like the iPhone SE insofar as Apple is revisiting a design from 2013, placing extra trendy elements in it, and promoting it for a comparatively low worth. We already knew from the dimensions, weight, and different specs that the iPad 5 was going to be so much like the unique iPad Air, and a teardown from iFixit reveals simply how comparable the tablets are in and out.

For starters, the glass on the entrance of the pill and the LCD panel aren't fused collectively as they're within the iPad Air 2 or both of the Execs. This makes it attainable to exchange both the glass or the LCD with out having to exchange each, which may make some sorts of repairs cheaper to do (laminated screens make for thinner units, although, they usually can even enhance distinction and make colours appear extra vivid). That is nonetheless an iPad, although, and Apple's tablets (for no matter cause) stay harder to repair than its telephones—the battery is held in with a whole lot of glue, and opening the pill up within the first place goes to require a heating pad to melt the glue holding the glass and the aluminum base collectively.

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