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Needs a bit of word smithing

@andrew Can I get you to review your We Just Took Apart the Apple Watch Series 1—Here’s What We Found Out article. Some of the phrasing is a bit mis leading.

The original Apple Watch uses a different connector system and the parts are unique to it as such the parts are not interchangeable with the Series 1 & 2 parts.

You also implied the CPU was faster on the Series 1 it's the same CPU as the original watch only the Series 2 had the faster CPU. The latest Series 3 is faster than all of the others so far.

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@evan - Can someone else take this on?

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@danj, I'll ask someone to look into it.

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Hi Dan,

Sorry for the slow response! I'll look into the compatibility question and get back to you on that.

As far as the CPU, wikipedia agrees with me that the S1P in the Series 1 is faster than the S1 in the Series 0:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_S1#S...

"The SiP in Apple Watch Series 1 is called S1P and looks superficially identical to the S1, but it includes most of the new features of the Apple S2 except notably for the on-chip GPS functionality. It contains the same dual-core CPU with the same new GPU capabilities as the S2 making it about 50% faster than the S1"

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Hi Andrew!

Yes, the newer S1P APU in the Series 1 is a bit better than the original S1 APU board. From what Apple stated the clocking of the onboard CPU is the same as the original and the part is the same as the Series 2 A2. So some layout tweaking clearly improved things.

I'm still a bit confused my self as I've only needed to service one Series 1 but have done a good half dozen Original as well as quite a few Series 2 watches. Most of them where sensor or display falling off issues and one battery swap out.

The Series 1 I did needed a Series 2 display as the connectors where like the Series 2. So did Apple do a switch-a-roo on us as your note implied the Original and the Series 1 where the same and I gotten a newer version which was more Series 2 based. The only reason why I remember is I had an Original watch display unit which clearly didn't connect and had to order the Series 2 unit. The only other possibility is someone else serviced the watch and put in a S2 APU and sundry parts.

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Hey Dan! That's a weird one! I'll try to have my team look into this soon! Andrew is busy making tools these days ;)

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