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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. Reverse Engineering? by Calle+Ballz · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    I don't know how it is in Japan, but in Korea there are people who will pay up to 10x what an electronic item is worth just to study the design and create knockoffs. Many US Army soldiers are bribed to buy electronics from the PX and sell them to the koreans who do this. I am wondering if this is something similar...

  2. lots of wires and junk by Ledge · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    All this to replace my good ole' 8-track? Bah. It doesn't even say Hi-Fi anywhere on it. (Hi-Fi is a technical term for High Fidelity.)

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  3. that's a hundred-yen coin by jpellino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    japanese, not chinese - it's the coin that all those little SLR camera battery screw-caps were made to fit. 2.26 cm diameter

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  4. 22 years and no progress. by jukal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is the state of the art in this business - Sone Walkman WM-1 from 1979.

  5. Re:Mac-only ..... nobody seems to get it. by ashsmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it just amounts to more people shouting out "here's something you can only do on a Mac."

    This would hold so much more wieght if essentially the same product wasn't available from the wintel crowd... I've had one of these for a year now. Granted, it lacks firewire, but the size is about the same and the capacity is quite a bit more. Current versions are 20g. Did I mention it costs roughly half as much?

    Honestly, I'm not sure what the big event is here...

  6. Re:First Airport, now this... by Spruitje · · Score: 3, Offtopic


    Now if they can only work together with AMD and NVIDIA to introduce a new low cost entry level Mac ($500 range) and use DAISY type runtime optimzation and recompilation in the OS to make it hardware agnostic...


    Or use instead of an expensive AMD a cheaper G3 processor.
    The problem is, that most G3 processors are cheaper than those from AMD and use 10 to 20 times less power.
    One of the advantages of the PPC family that it uses less power for more computing power.
    The PPC8500 will use something like 15 watts peak on 1,6 Ghz and will be two times faster than the P4 running at 2 Ghz..
    So, with 60 watts you get 8 times the computing power of a P4 at 2 Ghz..
    O yeah, you can get a G4 with Nvidea Geforce 3.
    No problem at all.

  7. Re:Anthrax at NASA? I Hear You... by dbCooper0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If you are *not* a scaremonger, then thanks from me for reporting. I metamodded the knee-jerk moderators that put you down. See the results here.

    If you *are* a scaremonger, then shame on you, because I wasted karma to make a point on your behalf (/. tradition. I guess). I await your reply.

    BTW, the mods keep coming in - maybe they'll cancel each other out.....although I posted it into the two most recent threads....owell.

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  8. Fuck You, Moderator. by dbCooper0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a valid point, whereas you have moderator points. Wasting them on a post with a value of "1" just shows how STUPID you are. Asshole. Go browse GOATSE or something...

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