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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. Toshiba drive price by Srsen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Note the MSRP of a PCMCIA version of the Toshiba HD is $399 just by itself. Apple's pricing of the iPod doesn't seem so outrageous now.

  2. Re:It's great to have sites like this by mcspock · · Score: 4, Redundant

    Linux is available for the arm7tdmi. This is different from the portal player processer, since portal player (iirc) has a dual core cpu. The second core lets them do mp3 encoding with, presumably, the standard ARM encoding library.

    The funny part about "can it run linux" here is that the line is suddenly blurred. This device is $400, has a fast processor, 5gb hard drive, and 32mb of ram - much nicer features than your standard PDA. Additionally, it would be (relatively) straight forward to enable all the standard device features (read: mp3 playback) under linux.

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

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  3. Translated Version by damiam · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Those who can't read Japanese might want to look at this, translated by Babelfish.

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  4. The English summary: by Pope · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We're closing down our forums for about 30 minutes due to extremely high traffic. Our higher-capacity server is ready, and we will move to it in the next few days, which should prevent problems like this.

    Thanks for your patience.

    Please use your browser's back button to return.

    That's the MacNN forum link. Nice going, guys! :)

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