Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 6 has been out for about a month now, but the folks at iFixit only recently opened it up and poked around inside. The verdict from the teardown site: Amazon's mini-tablet gets high marks for repairability but low scores for oomph.


The iFixit team doubled up on this particular teardown session , also popping open Amazon's seventh-generation Kindle ebook reader.


"Though differently purposed, the two Kindles are similarly built, and share the same repair wins and woes—easy opening procedures get you to strongly glued-in batteries, but their clean, modular designs are otherwise very easy to work with," iFixit reported. "Each Kindle received a solid eight out of ten on our Repairability Scale. Lack of available replacement parts has limited repair options in other Kindle models; we can only hope these models don't share the same fate."


So what's inside these two new devices from the online retail giant? First, here are the main chips IFixit found in the $99, Android-based Kindle Fire HD 6: