iPad Pro Teardown reveals large speakers, Empty place and 5K iMac like LCD timing controller

11/13/2015 Ahsan Zafar , Apple , iFixit , iPad Pro , Tear down 0 Comments

Just like always, iFixit gave iPad Pro teardown treatment providing the detail of iPad Pro hardware. According to iFixit, most of the iPad Pro internals are similar to iPad Air 2, Some differences include brand new loud Four-speaker audio setup.

Speaker drivers are sitting on each of the corners next to a capped resonance chamber. The identical design of speakers helps in shifting the function of the speakers depending upon the orientation of the device. Top speakers are build to produce high frequencies and bottom speakers produces low frequencies. Uncapping the volume chamber, which give iPad Pro's speakers 61 percent more back volume than the iPad Air 2. Carbon fiber caps filled with foams are used to amplify the sound. iFixit observed that the speakers are taking a lot of space that could have used for accommodating battery to increase the capacity by 50 percent. Previous iPads never used Premium speakers like iPad Pro uses, so the speakers also don't take a lot of space.

iFixit find Logic Board in the center of the body which used to be in the side of the body in previous iPads. Logic board also has shielding which had to be removed before reaching the Logic board, Previous iPads had no shielding on the logic board.

iFixit found that iPad Pro uses DP695 Timing control which is almost similar to the timing controller used in the 5K Retina iMac, But the timing controller is modified to better use display refresh rate. They also found iPad Pro batteries easier to remove as they have adhesive pull tabs under the battery.

Reaching to the parts which matters most, iFixit told that iPad Pro's carries 4GB of RAM, a 2.25GHz  Dual Core A9X processor and 10307 mAh battery which gives 10 hours of battery life to iPad Pro.

iFixit has given iPad Pro 3 out of 10 in repairability score section. The iPad issue is that iPad Pro uses a lot of adhesive in order to pack device compactly and the adhesive has always noticed to be against repairability. but iFixit tells Smart connector will never fail as it is not based on any moving parts but although it's virtually impossible to replace.

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