iFixit has completed their customary teardown of the iPad mini with Retina display, and their findings weren’t all the surprising. The tablet for the most part reprises the build of last year’s 8-inch slate, minus a few screw holes here and there. Aside from the Retina display itself, the biggest internal change appears to be a larger battery — oh, and that A7 CPU.
The difference between the battery of the original iPad mini and the iPad mini with Retina display is sizable. The new edition features 6471mAh battery boasting 24.3Whr. The last generation featured a 16.3Whr battery. Despite the increase, Apple still promises a similar 10 hour battery life. That Retina display and A7 chip must be pretty power hungry.
Speaking of the A7, just as benchmarks suggested, the particular bit of hardware matches that of the iPhone 5S as opposed to the iPad Air. All three devices utilize the same 64-bit silicon, but the iPad mini and iPhone are clocked at 1.3GHz. The Air sees a marginal bump to 1.4GHz.
Again, the iPad mini with Retina display ranks low on iFixit’s repairability rating with a score of 2 out of 10. That is common to Apple’s line of tablets, however. While display glass can be replaced independently of the Retina’s LCD guts, plenty of glue is involved making it a less than pleasant process.
[via iFixit]
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