Nook Tablet Torn Open and Gutted for the Heck of It
Nook Tablet Torn Open and Gutted for the Heck of It
Posted 11/22/2011 at 9:02am
| by Paul Lilly
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You didn't really think we'd let a new gadget emerge without a shout out to the crazy tech surgeons at iFixIt, did you? Having already taken apart Amazon's Kindle Fire and laid out the device in pieces, iFixIt has turned its attention to Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, the $249 competitor to Amazon's $199 slate. It's a good thing they did, too, because tearing into a Nook Tablet isn't for the faint of heart and you're likely to kill your device if you try this on your own.
iFixIt located a pair of "sneaky screws" hidden beneath two small circles nestled on each side of the microSD card slot. These have to be removed before you can even think about tearing open the Nook Tablet. Once extracted, iFixIt had to pry the case halves to separate them from each other, twist a Torx T5 screw, and pry some more to "free the front bezel from a sticky situation."
There weren't any big surprises found inside the Nook Tablet that we didn't already know about, though it's interesting B&N labeled the battery as "NOOKCOLOR." If you're curious about part numbers, iFixIt found a SanDisk SDIN5C1-16G 16GB flash memory chip, Texas Instruments 6030B107 power management IC, Hynix H9TKNNN8P 1GB DDR2 RAM, and a few other odds and ends.
All in all, the Nook Tablet is tougher to disassemble and service than the Kindle Fire, according to iFixit, who gave it a repairability score of 6 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair), compared to the Kindle Fire's 8/10 score.
Image Credit: iFixIt
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jason2393
November 22, 2011 at 9:31am
The Kindle Fire received an 8/10 score. I'm not sure how, considering they were desoldering chips to find the processor.
Paul_Lilly
November 22, 2011 at 9:53am
iFixIt lists its rationale in the final step of each teardown. In short, I think the repairability score has more to do with how easy or difficult it is to get into a device and access user-repairable parts, like swapping the battery. I don't anticipate any home users trying to get at the processor for any reason other than sheer curiosity.
nmanguy
November 22, 2011 at 10:42am
His point still stands though, since you wrote 6/10 when it should be 8/10.
nmanguy
November 22, 2011 at 6:48pm
I don't understand that photo. We established that the Nook is a 6/10 already. It was just that he wrote that the Kindle was a 6/10 as well.
neoxalucard
November 22, 2011 at 11:43pm
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