[Prov1322]

BTW, the iFixit.com folks do an extraordinary job of breaking down replacement steps and selling parts for many Apple products. I was able to successfully replace the battery on my wife's iPhone last year with their $18 replacement battery and very detailed steps. The Techs even answer the phone here in the USA!

Highly recommend them for any repair/replacement issues you may want to tackle yourself.

[antiRepublicrat]

Easy repairability requires added size, weight and complexity. iFixit is great, but Apple is just going in a direction that’s not very friendly to home fixing, with extremely tight integration and packaging of the devices.

It used to be you could even upgrade the chip in an XBox. Not anymore, now the 360 has a new chip and in later versions the system is on one integrated chip, totally non-repairable.