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Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay

Posted by Soulskill on from the also-a-reservoir-of-hipness dept.

New submitter joelville writes "After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely and instead uses Airplay to stream three inches to make up for the Lightning connector's shortcomings."

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  1. Car analogy by sinij · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone please explain this with a car analogy?

    1. Re:Car analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      How about a NasCar analogy?

      They put a restrictor plate so that the cars can't go so fast. Thus they can race in an unsuitable venue to keep the rabid fans happy.

    2. Re:Car analogy by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...that delivers 50HP to the electric drive motor...

      ...using microwaves.

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    3. Re:Car analogy by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about a NasCar fan analogy? You think they have brains, but when you open up their skulls you find tiny Leprechauns jacking off to chrome hubcap advertisements.

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    4. Re:Car analogy by trum4n · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's like having 1000hp hooked to an automatic transmission.

    5. Re:Car analogy by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

      . . . it's like opening the hood of your new car, and finding a team of miniature Steve Jobs' bike pedaling the drive train while chanting "Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice," and blowing the smoke of hallucinogenic mushrooms out through the catalytic converter while burning their votes for the new Pope living in a Crystal palace in the sky over Apples new headquarters impounded at a dock in Amsterdam . . .

      Who's been sleeping in my brain . . . ?

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    6. Re:Car analogy by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

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    7. Re:Car analogy by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

      Don't be silly. There is no spoon.

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    8. Re:Car analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      google makes hubcaps?

    9. Re:Car analogy by GrahamCox · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thunderbolt and Lightning... very, very frightening indeed!

    10. Re:Car analogy by ThePeices · · Score: 4, Funny

      How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.

      So what you are saying, is that I can take 17 seconds to change a gear, but if I change it at just the right moment, ill lose no performance at all compared with somebody who changes gears in 1 second?

      Sir, I am in awe of your logic.

    11. Re:Car analogy by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

      The irony is that a song called "Isn't it Ironic?" is not about irony.

      Betteridge's Law of song titles clearly applies there.

    12. Re:Car analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Galileo,Galileo, Galileo Galileo Galileo figaro... Magnifico!

    13. Re:Car analogy by dinfinity · · Score: 3, Funny

      The comedian Ed Byrne said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg

  2. Smoking mushrooms? Talk about drug abuse.... by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a waste of psilocybin....

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  3. But the real question is what else can it do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we are missing the point a little here, They released a tiny computer for 50 bucks, now we just need a port of cyanogen for it.

  4. I can't believe no one has asked yet, by ClaraBow · · Score: 3, Funny

    does it run linux?

  5. I would have had first post... by decep · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...except my Apple ethernet cable needed a firmware update.