Activism This International Repair Day, iFixit and Google Have Something for Your Repair Café One ThinkPad owner replaced the fan, refreshed the thermal paste, and reinstalled Windows. But their laptop still took minutes to boot. After installing ChromeOS Flex, it started in seconds. PCWorld’s… October 17, 2026 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repairability Why Isn’t Everyone Turning Their Old Laptops into Mini Desktop PCs? Modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops are awesome (and extremely rare), especially now that Rammageddon is making new machines so crazy expensive. But one question remains: What do you do with the… October 15, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
iFixit Five Million Reasons to Make Peripheral Repair Easier: One Year of Work With Logitech A year ago, we wrote that repairability is just the beginning. This year, our work with Logitech put some numbers behind that idea. Logitech repair content on iFixit was viewed… July 30, 2026 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Tools Meet Megalodon: The Home Repair Kit We Kept Wishing We Had We make repair tools for a living, so when something breaks at home, we reach for our own kits. But one problem kept coming up. You know the jobs. Clearing… July 1, 2026 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Community The Community Repair Hub Is Live: Find a Repair Event Near You! For years, Repair Cafés and Fixit Clinics have quietly helped people fix what they already own. Volunteers gather in libraries, community centers, and maker spaces. Someone walks in with a… June 16, 2026 by Kris Rodriguez - iFixit
Community When Your Little Helper Needs Help Robot vacuums are convenient until they aren’t. One moment, your robot is dutifully making its way across the living room. The next, it’s stuck under the sofa, failing to find… May 27, 2026 by Sandra Hiller - iFixit
Site News How to Find a Good Local Repair Shop Need help fixing something, but not sure who to trust? Finding a good repair shop can save you time, stress, and money, especially when the repair is complicated or the… May 20, 2026 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Events Spring, Solder, and Side Quests What sticks with me from the past few months of events isn’t the number of calendar days or the names of the people I’ve met (I’m terrible with names, by… April 21, 2026 by Sandra Hiller - iFixit
Community If You Can’t Find the Fix, You Can’t Fix the Thing At the Repair Café where I volunteer, I welcome people and their devices while they wait for a technician. Sometimes, I’ll quickly look something up on iFixit and show them… February 21, 2026 by Sandra Hiller - iFixit
Events Tools Are Infrastructure Have I now found the only corporate booth at the entire congress? The question came from a visitor as she drifted over to our table—curious, not accusatory. It’s a reasonable… January 9, 2026 by Sandra Hiller - iFixit
