So , you have your oculus onAmazon ’s shiny fresh $ 100 streaming box seat , which may just be thefastest bright TV you ’ve ever met . But what lurks beneath its sleek outside ? Thanks to iFixit , youdon’t want to wonder any longer .
The guy wire have gotten hold of the new Fire TV streaming box andtorn it right apart . Here are some of the high spot of what they found :
This thing get hot . Amazon include a heatsink that fills most of the bottom case and it is throng with thermal spread , too .
deep down , though , it ’s unusually simple : the whole shooting match sits on a single integrated board .
The controller is unusually bare ( read , boring ? ) . Amazon is n’t trying to correct the play world alight here , just adding some extra features to its new machine .
Fortunately , the shelling in the remote are merely normal replaceable ones . Praise be .
Many of the chips used across the board here have been used to great consequence elsewhere , agree to iFixit — the Moto X and Kindle Fire HDX 7 , for example . In other discussion , Amazon has prefer some of the skillful hardware it can at the price to power the equipment .
One last , uncanny , point : many of the components are tag with RFID stickers . Presumably for inventory tracking , but still a little weird .
Overall , it score a repairability evaluation of 6 out of 10 — easy to take asunder , but much nothing you could do once you ’d managed that . you could goread the whole thing over on iFixit . [ iFixit ]
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