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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. It's great to have sites like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because I wasn't about to waste my money by tearing my iPod apart.

    Can it run Linux? Can you imagine *smack*smack*smack*

    Sorry.

    1. Re:It's great to have sites like this by DrSbaitso · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yep, an iPod will totally outclass any windows CE devices we are likely to see in the next few years.

      You're right... I am really sick of displays I can read on handhelds. Why have 32 bit color and 400x200 resolution (or whatever it really is) when you can have 1bit color and half that screen size? Also, who needs a pen to input stuff when you can enter letters by pressing the up and down arrows on your iPod!

      *sarcasm off* This thing is cool but let's not get TOO ridiculous. Hehe.

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      beware the jabberwock, my son! the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
  2. Re:PortalPlayer by SaturnTim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, because people are FORCED to upgrade everytime a patch is allowed.

    And I'm sure apple will be very sad if you crush the mp3 player that YOU PAYED FOR.

    --T

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    http://www.theMediaBunker.com
  3. Re:Reverse Engineering? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, for the Army, because it is US territory... the soldiers there can buy any electronic item found at your local walmart for about the same price that you'd get it here. In fact, because there are no sales taxes applied to sales on Army installations, they get it much cheaper.

    Say a Korean company would like to produce a knock off of the new video camera. They'd have a hard time legitimately getting ahold of one, so they find PVT Whoever to go to the PX and buy one, then they buy it off of him. No paperwork, only cash exchange. PVT Whoever just made himself a pocket full of chump change, while the Korean company now has a product with absolutely no trace to how they obtained it to reverse engineer it.

    I have a friend who is stationed in Korea, and she found what we both thought was a great deal: a Geforce3 video card for $90. He bought one and tried it and it ALMOST outperformed a Trident 1 MB video card found in older 486's. This was obviously a poor knock off of the Geforce 3 chip.