We've already seen the inside of the PS4 and now iFixit is rounding out the console war with a full teardown of Microsoft's brand new Xbox One. Though the console hasn't launched yet, the Xbox One is already on sale in New Zealand due to time differences. The ever committed iFixit crew flew to New Zealand to get their hands on one of the first consoles sold and performed a teardown ahead of the console's release.
The good news is that it’s reasonably easy to repair your Xbox One console. The device scored an impressive 8/10 on iFixit's repairability scale. The iFixit crew reports that the fan and heat sink is easy to replace and, while the console doesn’t have the same user-replaceable hard drive as the PS4, the hard drive is a standard 2.5-inch 500 GB 5400 RPM HDD. Replacing it will void your warranty, but it’s doable.
Other finds include SK Hynix SDRAM, an ON Semiconductor integrated power control IC, a Realtek Ethernet controller, a Marvell Avastar WiFi, NFC and Bluetooth chip, and a Texas Instruments high current load switch.
The Xbox One packs an octoa-core x86 processor, 8 GB of RAM, 500 GB of storage and a Blu-ray/DVD drive. It also comes with Microsoft's brand new Kinect 2 sensor as well as a redesigned Xbox controller. Check out what we thought of the Xbox One in our review here.
Head on over to iFixit for the full teardown and the whole gallery of gory photos!
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