LCD Monitors Teardown Video

If you’ve ever wondered how exactly your LCD monitor works down to the pixel, then you don’t want to miss an excellent clip from EngineerGuyVideo that literally breaks it all down for you. The nice thing about the video is that you get to see the actual LCD panel taken apart into its layers of magic. Diagrams and some animation are interspersed to further explain how all the liquid crystals, film transistors, and polarizers work together to form a display.Video after break.

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Video and Picture iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown, CPU A5 1Ghz, RAM 512MB

Ifixit already have a 16 GB Wi-Fi model in hand and are tearing it down to see just what's inside the revamped version of Apple's popular tablet device.The iPad 2 seems to use essentially the same Broadcom touch controllers and Wi-Fi chip found in the first-generation iPad and other recent iOS devices. The A5 system-on-a-chip carries manufacture dates of January/February 2011, the three-cell 25 watt-hour battery offers only slightly more power than the 24.8 watt-hour battery found in the original iPad, and comes in a much flatter form factor to help Apple achieve the significantly thinner design for the tablet.

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Samsung Galaxy S 4G Teardown

Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S 4G. Not to be confused with the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II, or Galaxy Tab, the Galaxy S 4G is Samsung's newest entry to the smartphone arena. iFixit’s ability to tell the future – is courtesy of an ST Ericsson THOR M5730 HSPA+ Thin Modem, paired with the usual 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, Broadcom WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1. The teardown team then checked whether or not Samsung really does use magnesium for its structural components, rather than aluminum.
To do so, they scraped some of the metal off and set fire to it, resulting in the tell-tale bright glow of a magnesium flame. That helps Samsung keep the weight low, despite magnesium being even lighter than aluminum.

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Motorola Atrix 4G Teardown

Equipped with an Nvidia Tegra 2 housing a dual-core 1 GHz Cortex A9 processor and an 8-core ULP GPU, the Atrix 4G is set to dominate the world of mobile entertainment. Will the hardware of this monster live up to the hype? Read on to find out.

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Nexus S Teardown

Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks features that separate it from other Android phones on the market, such as a curved display and the newest 2.3 Gingerbread update.
That's great and everything, but ifixit wanted to see what makes this baby tick. So stay tuned as they dig deep into the Nexus S!

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