Bill Detwiler

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Toshiba Thrive. Inside this Android tablet, he found hardware from NVidia, SanDisk, Hynix, and Broadcom.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Inside this Android tablet, he found hardware from Nvidia, Samsung, SanDisk, and Broadcom.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HTC Flyer. Inside this 7-inch, Android tablet, he found hardware from Elpida, Samsung, Qualcomm, and N-Trig.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HP TouchPad. Inside the webOS tablet, he found hardware from Qualcomm, SanDisk, Samsung, Atheros, and Wolfson.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive, which can survive being crushed, dropped, and submerged in 30′ of water.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Inside the Chrome notebook, he found hardware from Samsung, SanDisk, Intel, and Qualcomm.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Barnes & Noble Nook. Inside the touchscreen e-book reader, he found chips from TI, SanDisk, Samsung, and Lattice.

Bill Detwiler cracks open a 55″ Samsung LED TV and finds hardware from Samsung, Realtek, ST, Intersil, AKM, Weltrend, Silicon Image, and TI.

Bill Detwiler cracked open the monster, 27″ Apple iMac released in 2011. Inside the iMac, he found hardware from Intel, AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and Seagate.

Bill Detwiler cracks open Samsung’s answer to the MacBook Air. Inside the ultrathin notebook, he found hardware from Samsung, Intel, TI, and Broadcom.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HTC ThunberBolt. Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone has chips from Qualcomm, Broadcom, SanDisk, Micron, and Atmel.

Bill Detwiler cracks open a Motorola Advisor Gold Pager (circa 1997). Before cell phones were ubiquitous, these devices hung on many an IT pro’s belt.