Xbon One Teardown

'Round back of the console itself, we find:

Power Inlet

HDMI Out (left) and HDMI In (right)

Digital Optical Audio Out

Two USB 3.0 Ports

Kinect Port

Infra-red Output and Ethernet Port

Possibly up to no good is a roguish third USB 3.0 port, manning the left side all by itself.

The heavy hitters include:

X887732-001 DG3001FEG84HR (includes AMD "Jaguar" Cores CPU + AMD Radeon Graphics GPU)

SK Hynix H5TQ4G63AFB 4 Gb (512 MB) DDR3 SDRAM (total of 16 x 512 MB = 8 GB)

X861949-005 T6WD5XBG-0003

SK Hynix H26M42003GMR 8 GB eMMC NAND Flash

ON Semiconductor NCP4204 GAC1328G Integrated Power Control IC

Realtek RTL 8151GNM Ethernet Controller

Texas Instruments TPS2590 3-V to 20-V High Current Load Switch

Microsoft Xbox One Repairability Score: 8 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair):

Only a few tools are required to take the whole console apart. The opening procedure is similar to, but much easier than, any Xbox 360.

Once inside, a clean, no-nonsense modular design allows the drives, fan, heat sink, wireless card, and front board to be easily replaced.

Clips instead of screws make opening the case more difficult than necessary, but the absence of adhesive and proprietary screws helps soften the transgression.

The hard drive is relatively difficult to access and possibly formatted with a proprietary file sys