“Our teardown artists kept the midnight oil a’burning to take apart the AirPort Extreme — Apple’s first ever 802.11ac wireless base station,” Julia reports for iFixit.
“And, we’ll tell you this for free: the AirPort Extreme totally lives up to its name. It’s extremely tall and extremely easy to disassemble,” Julia reports. “This little tower of power pops right open with a couple twists of the metal spudger, and we didn’t encounter more than just a dab of glue inside the device. Modular components make the rest of the disassembly process a breeze, earning the AirPort Extreme an extremely solid 8 out of 10 on our repairability scale.”
Julia reports, “In fact, the Extreme performed so well that it lands itself a spot alongside the two most repairable Apple products in recent history: the Apple TV and the Mac Mini.
Read more and check out all the gory dissected innards in the full article here.