Any photo-and-text-based teardown of the entire device like iFixit used to do? Love the company, but the fact that there aren't non-video articles on this under the Teardowns section is honestly a bit of a letdown. Would it be possible to bring them back? They're a really useful resource.

Exciting news! I’m pretty surprised that Valve used a custom-designed AMD APU instead of an off-the-shelf variant like the 4800U or something.

Interesting how Valve went with a full-custom APU from AMD. I thought they’d use an off-the-shelf chip like the 4500U.

Fairphone making a hard-to-repair device…this is strange. While I understand that these are tiny wireless earbuds, even the Samsung Beans did better than this.

I know it’s not the focus of the video, but it’s great to see that the PMIC is cooled via a thermal pad at least. I wonder if the M1 is undervolted to fit the iPad’s power and thermal constraints as well.

It’s a nice little detail that the SoC is cooled from both the front and the back. Does the PMIC also get cooled by a heatsink?

Yes, thermal paste can be used. I strongly recommend Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, as it’s the second-best-performing non-metallic thermal paste on the market (the only better performer is Kryonaut Extreme).

This comment aged like fine wine with the launch of the M1-based iMacs.

Samsung making less repairable earbuds: “It’s evolving, just backwards.”

Adhesive pull tabs are wonderful. I wonder why Apple won’t use them on their Macbooks (and why more electronics designers aren’t using them as well). They’re low-cost, very convenient, take up very little space, and are satisfying to pull.