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The Guts Of An iPod

Posted by timothy on from the transmit-viruses-to-aliens dept.

The Infamous Grimace writes: "The folks at this Japanese web site have provided pics of the inside of an iPod. A quick breakdown of it in English is here. The FireWire contoller appears to be TIs TSB43AA82, the chip is PortalPlayers PP5002B w/ an ARM7TDMI-based core. Apparently it has encoding abilities as well. The hard-drive is Toshiba's MK5002MAL."

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  1. Re:Why no USB then (Apple PC required)? by swordboy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apple is subsidizing the cost of this player in order to promote the Apple Computer. From Apple's iPod spec page:

    Requirements
    - Apple computer with built-in FireWire port
    - Mac OS 9.2.1 (or later) or Mac OS X v10.1 (or later)
    - iTunes 2 software (included)

     So basically, you wind up paying less than what Apple is putting into the product for the sheer promotion of Apple's other products. However, I'm sure that some l337 h4x0r will figure out how to make this work with real PCs and Apple will cancel the whole program.

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  2. Re:I own a PowerBook G4! by jchristopher · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    So the question is, why is an entry level 600MHz iMac *so* expensive if the screen, hard drive, memory, video, etc, are all commodity parts?

    Congratulations, you've discovered that Apple hardware is overpriced! Welcome to the club.

    In all seriousness, you raise an important point. Apple would love nothing more than for you to believe that the iMac somehow uses premium components, when in reality they are composed of ALL commodity parts, save the motherboard.

    Trying to justify the high priced hardware is impossible. Just think of it this way - it's the price of using MacOS. If paying the extra couple hundred bucks isn't worth it to get macos for you, don't. If it is, do.