El Segundo, Calif., March 16, 2011—Apple Inc. managed to significantly reduce the thickness and weight of the iPad 2 compared to the iPad 1 by trimming the dimensions of several key components, most ...

With the second-generation iPad, Apple Inc. has held the line on the bill of materials (BOM), maintaining virtually the same costs as the first version of the device, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis ...

iFixit has taken apart both the iPad 2 and its Smart Cover accessory. While the iPad 2 is mostly re-arranged iPad 1 components inside, both it and its new cover contain a total of 31 magnets—Juggalos ...

As soon as the Apple iPad 2 went on sale today, the teardown crew at iFixit got their hands on one of the device’s and tore it apart. In a 23-step process, they took the iPad 2 apart piece by piece to ...

Remember when logicboards were one of the biggest components of a computer? Not any more. An iFixit teardown of the iPad 2 reveals a logicboard the size of a couple of matchbooks. By contrast, the ...