iFixit now carries official Xbox alternative elements

As a part of a deal it struck with Microsoft last year, iFixit has began promoting real Xbox elements and providing restore guides, based on adjustments on its Microsoft Repair Hub noticed by The Verge. It now presents elements for Xbox Sequence S and X (digital and disk drive) fashions starting from instances to energy provides to motherboards, together with toolkits, thermal paste and extra.

iFixit introduced its partnership with Microsoft in 2023 when it started providing official alternative elements for Microsoft Floor laptops. As a part of that, it supplied disassembly movies and step-by-step guides to assist simplify comparatively advanced repairs.

It is doing the identical with Xbox, exhibiting guides on exchange motherboards for every console, detailing every step and offering a listing of elements and instruments required. Motherboard restore, as an illustration, requires 29 steps for set up together with further steps to reassemble all the pieces. Nevertheless, to this point, the corporate hasn’t launched any movies because it did for Floor gadgets.

iFixit has comparable agreements with different tech giants, providing alternative elements for Google Pixel tablets and Google Pixel Fold devices. If additionally works with accent producer Logitech, providing restore elements for 2 of its most popular mouse models. The principle holdout is Apple, although iFixit lately gave the iPhone 16 a decent repairability score after dinging the earlier mannequin on account of software-restricted “elements pairing” necessities. Final month the corporate tore the PS5 Pro apart and located it to be decently repairable, although it would not promote any elements for Sony’s console.