Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), recently launched a new iPad remarkably cheaper than ever seen before and with more surprise up its sleeve, the most relevant is precisely its compatibility with the Apple Pencil Until now reserved for iPad Pro.
iFixit is well known for dismembering the Cupertino company's products and scoring their repairability. The iPad 2018, as is the case with many other Apple devices, is not capable of receiving the iFixit approval.
The most interesting and really the only thing that makes the cutting attractive is discovering why this new iPad is compatible with the Apple Pencil while the previous models of the classic iPad are not. For it Apple uses a Broadcom driver who takes the hard part of the job and makes the system capable of processing with the necessary precision the commands that the Apple Pencil emits depending on its situation on the screen. As a positive point, according to iFixit, we find that the screen is not fused with the front glass so its repair is easier and faster.
Except for the processor and small parts, it is a replica of the iPad 2017, they have even found that the battery is exactly the same as the one offered in the previous product, which is not a negative point considering its performance and efficiency, the true. With all that, iFixit has given this iPad 2018 a repairability grade of 2 out of 10, clearly insufficient and we could almost say that it is impossible to repair, something that does not surprise us considering other analyzes of the same equipment to the rest of the devices of the Cupertino company. Apple increasingly complicates everything and that makes repairs extremely difficult.