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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. Yeah but. . . by czardonic · · Score: -1, Troll

    . . .this will be useless when digital music is outlawed entirely.

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  2. PortalPlayer by sulli · · Score: -1, Troll

    advertises that it is "SDMI compliant" for "MP3 type players". I bought an iPod, but if they ever "up"grade it to "support" SDMI to the exclusion of normal MP3, I will smash it into tiny little pieces and send it back by U.S. Mail.

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    sulli
    RTFJ.
  3. In the immortal words... by swordboy · · Score: 3, Troll

    Does anyone remember that Saturday Night Live episode with Tom Hanks posing as one of those "flea market electronics hustlers"?

    Sony Guts!

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  4. Re:It's great to have sites like this by Unknown+Bovine+Group · · Score: 0, Troll

    The really inspiring thing about this site is that it's created by Japanese and doesn't contain any bukkake.

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    m00.
  5. Re:Drivers possibilities for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or just buy a fucking Mac.

    Then you can upgrade from your current toy Unix to a real workstation Unix.