Following the "Antennagate" now a "Screwgate"? 4 and in the iPhone Apple MacBook Air has incorporated unusual screws - for which there is little screwdriver. Bad faith, and a new business for third-party? Apple builds a computer for hobbyists - it was always like that. While Windows users to compile their PC like themselves or after some time, even the graphics, sometimes replacing the sound card, Macintosh computer users for its mostly closed systems.But who really wanted the interior to the approach, which could now also, even the iPhone. Recently, however, Apple uses on some devices, a new type of screw that can move with any common screwdriver. This brings some fans up the wall. Apple have obviously decided that its technicians are the only ones who have the right to repair an iPhone, all complain especially the professional hobbyist from iFixit.
com. They have long made a name so that they may communicate easily comprehensible repair manuals for gadgets, from the household toaster to 27-inch iMac. For new copies of the iPhone is now 4 of them but have noticed a tiny little meanness, apparently wants to deny the Apple hobbyists the inlet.
"Malicious increase" means iFixit the new screws that the iPhone 4 will be delivered, for example, in Japan. The two tiny screws hold together the whole case and look at first glance, just as so-called Torx screws, which have long been in laptops and cell phones to find and for which one can easily buy a screwdriver.
The new bolts but are greatly magnified, as so-called Pentalob screws visible. Instead of one or more slots they have a flower-shaped five-page patterns in the head. And just so no other standard screwdriver can do something. Attempts to move them with a reasonably appropriate Torx Dreher, at best, no effect.
At worst, it makes you break it. Apple have probably decided on this type screw, because it completely new to the market, critics speculate. Suitable tools are correspondingly difficult to get to and also expensive. And indeed, until recently it was almost impossible to get such a Pentalob screwdriver.
Only Apple technicians are equipped since last year with a "MacBook Air technician kit" that includes a Pentalob screwdriver. For this deficiency, the craft experts at iFixit - all the American ideals to the following - now made a deal. They have not only - with a lot of text, a video and pictures - very public appeal to the screw-down problem, they also offer the same solution.
Your "iPhone 4 Liberation Kit" ("Liberation iPhone 4-Set") includes not only the iPhone right Pentalob screwdriver. In addition, two equally sized Phillips head screws are the exchange and the matching screwdriver at. It's also cheaper to order your Apple phone hobbyist can put into a state more accessible for modifications.
Comparatively cheap $ 9.95 (7.35 €) require the professional hobbyist for it. Including shipping to Germany to become, at best, $ 14.23 (10.51) going on. Not much money, one would agree, but it is still cheaper. A quick search online retailer promotes the black-box. com to light that offers a similar screwdriver for only 2.35 (dollars).
Including shipping from Hong Kong have to shell out at least $ 8.17 here. Exchange and second screwdriver screws are then present. But honestly, who needs even if you have one anyway Pentalob-turner? Just wait? In any case, it may not be long now until the show up into the collective consciousness of the iPhone community moved Pentalob screwdriver on eBay.
Black-box provider offers any event at great discounts. If you order in large quantities, pays far less than normal customers, and is better off even with the shipping costs. As required, even for a pair of iPhone-screws for three € to be the required on the online auction site price seems out of ten euros for a screwdriver Pentalob almost cheap.
Whether all the fuss is all the oblique screws but justified at all, is another question. Macbook Air and iPhone 4 anyway hardly contain parts that could replace good conscience itself. Only when the batteries might be worth it. But for a battery replacement, the device is still not long enough in the trade, because the pay is usually only after two years of use.
And by then is still plenty of time. Enough time anyway to be seen whether the Pentalob screwdriver will not even get cheaper and easier.
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