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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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    If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
  3. 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.