iFixit now carries official Xbox substitute parts

As part of a deal it struck with Microsoft closing 12 months, iFixit has started selling actual Xbox parts and offering restore guides, in accordance with modifications on its Microsoft Restore Hub seen by The Verge. It now presents parts for Xbox Sequence S and X (digital and disk drive) fashions ranging from situations to power supplies to motherboards, along with toolkits, thermal paste and additional.

iFixit launched its partnership with Microsoft in 2023 when it began offering official substitute parts for Microsoft Ground laptops. As part of that, it offered disassembly films and step-by-step guides to help simplify comparatively difficult repairs.

It’s doing the equivalent with Xbox, displaying guides on change motherboards for each console, detailing each step and providing a list of parts and devices required. Motherboard restore, for instance, requires 29 steps for arrange along with additional steps to reassemble the whole thing. Nonetheless, to this point, the company hasn’t launched any films as a result of it did for Ground models.

iFixit has comparable agreements with completely different tech giants, offering substitute parts for Google Pixel tablets and Google Pixel Fold models. If moreover works with accent producer Logitech, offering restore parts for two of its hottest mouse fashions. The first holdout is Apple, though iFixit not too way back gave the iPhone 16 a respectable repairability score after dinging the sooner model due to software-restricted “parts pairing” requirements. Last month the company tore the PS5 Skilled apart and situated it to be decently repairable, though it could not promote any parts for Sony’s console.