Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is out and the folks from repair firm iFixit have got their hands on one and taken it apart so we can see what makes it tick!
Getting into the Surface Pro presented far more of a challenge than the Surface RT tablet did.
Microsoft has used copious quantities of tar-like adhesive to hold the
tablet together, a mess which required the iFixit team to use of a heat
gun and a handful of guitar picks to gain access to the guts of the
device.
Once inside the Surface Pro, things
don't get much better. Not only is the tablet held together by more
than 90 screws—a number which iFixit's Chief Information Architect
Miroslav Djuric describes as "a tad crazy"—but the battery is buried
behind the motherboard, and held to the case with adhesive.
Adhesive prevents the battery rattling, but it also means that there's a risk of puncturing it during removal.
On the plus side, if you do feel
like tackling the adhesive to get into your Surface Pro, the removable
solid state drive—which, in the 64GB model turns out to be a Micron
RealSSD C400—is user-replaceable.
Inside the Surface Pro is a 1.7GHz
Intel Core i5-3317U processor, 4GB of Micron 2LEI2 D9PXV RAM, a Marvell
Avastar 88W8797 wireless chipset, and a whole host of other top quality
parts. There's no denying that the Surface Pro is a quality piece of
hardware.
This is a notebook in the clothing of a tablet.
The tablet is kept going by an LG Escalade 42Wh lithium-ion power
pack, rated for 7.4V and 5676mAh, capable of going 5 hours between
charges.
A lot of thought has been given to cooling the Surface Pro. Because
it has an x86 processor at its heart as opposed to an ARM part powering
the Surface RT—needed to power the full Windows 8 Pro operating
system—there's a lot more heat to get rid of. The plastic top-rear bezel
of the Surface Pro has been engineered to doubles as a vent for all the
air being pumped over the heat sink's two radiators that keep the
silicon cool.
The Surface Pro is a quality piece
of hardware, but as with most devices nowadays, you can forget about
easy repairs and upgrades. The use of adhesive, along with the dozens of
screws and fasteners, means it is a nightmare to get into. As a result
of this the iFixit team has awarded the Surface Pro the lowest
repairability score it has awarded any tablet—1 out of ten.
So, the bottom line is that the Surface Pro is an awesome device, but any repairs are best left to a professional.
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