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Apple has listed the prices for iPhone Duo repairs, and there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that you will be able to peel off the screen’s cover layer and replace it. The bad news is that “inner display damage” is going to cost more than a brand-new iPhone 17 to get fixed. Apple just published its prices for in-house iPhone Duo repairs, and they’re pretty much wh...

One ThinkPad owner replaced the fan, refreshed the thermal paste, and reinstalled Windows. But their laptop still took minutes to boot. After installing ChromeOS Flex, it started in seconds. PCWorld’s Alaina Yee made a retired ThinkPad X240 responsive again without even replacing its old hard drive. Another user installed Flex on their father’s old computer, which he couldn’t...

Modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops are awesome (and extremely rare), especially now that Rammageddon is making new machines so crazy expensive. But one question remains: What do you do with the leftover parts you end up with after a CPU, RAM, or storage upgrade? You could definitely donate them, but you could also turn them into a tiny desktop computer. MNT, makers of t...

From the pier in Alameda, the USS Hornet is imposing: a wall of grey steel that rises out of the water and just keeps going. At 872 feet, she’s more than 200 feet shorter than the US Navy’s newest carriers. A giant when she was built in 1943, she’s mid-sized at best today. I was there for Instrumental’s Build Better Summit, a gathering of the people who decide how electronics...

We just tore down the two latest Apple Watches. And Apple, we need to have a talk. Let’s cut to the chase: there’s no big repairability news here. The Series 12 got a battery pull tab, which, along with some other small architecture changes, brought it up by a point on our repairability scale. The Ultra 4 is essentially the same as its predecessors. Apple Watch is falling beh...