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New iPod Touch Has an 802.11n Chip
eggboard writes "iFixIt has discovered a Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n chip in the just-announced iPod touch (32 GB and 64 GB) models that uses single-stream 802.11n. Single-stream doesn't get the full power of N, but it boosts speed enough that — along with space-time block encoding, a feature coming soon to Wi-Fi access points with two or more radios — the iPod touch could be an effective networked media server, for streaming and transfer, possibly through the new iTunes Home Sharing feature."
Wireless! More space than a Nomad! I finally have a reason to get an iPod!
now that the spec is final, Apple will write a driver and make sure to enable n only via their WiFi access points
Why didn't they tell us earlier? Seems odd to me.
It's part of their marketing. Now, when fanboys say that Apple products are NOT more expensive when you compare them feature to feature with others, the fanboys can also point out that you're also buying features that you don't know about! See how superior Apple products are?!
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
They aren't allowed to rewrite the drivers. Sawbones-Oxleaf act or something.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And for $10 it will enable the camera.
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
I wonder if it's a coincidence that the near-last digits are FKU....
'He who has to break a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.' -- Gandalf to Saruman
FKUBG... hmmm. Fuck You Bill Gates?
So what do I do with those weird looking plugs?
Troll the internet with them?