The Guts Of An iPod

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."

It's great to have sites like this

[Anonymous Coward]

Because I wasn't about to waste my money by tearing my iPod apart.

Can it run Linux? Can you imagine *smack*smack*smack*

Sorry.

Re:Yeah but. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

When digital music is outlawed, only outlaws will have digital music!

Re:PortalPlayer

[SaturnTim]

Yea, because people are FORCED to upgrade everytime a patch is allowed.

And I'm sure apple will be very sad if you crush the mp3 player that YOU PAYED FOR.

--T

Re:PortalPlayer

[O2n]

[...]I will smash it into tiny little pieces and send it back by U.S. Mail

Err... not *too* tiny, I hope. I mean, keep clear from sending dust...

Re:Reverse Engineering?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, for the Army, because it is US territory... the soldiers there can buy any electronic item found at your local walmart for about the same price that you'd get it here. In fact, because there are no sales taxes applied to sales on Army installations, they get it much cheaper.

Say a Korean company would like to produce a knock off of the new video camera. They'd have a hard time legitimately getting ahold of one, so they find PVT Whoever to go to the PX and buy one, then they buy it off of him. No paperwork, only cash exchange. PVT Whoever just made himself a pocket full of chump change, while the Korean company now has a product with absolutely no trace to how they obtained it to reverse engineer it.

I have a friend who is stationed in Korea, and she found what we both thought was a great deal: a Geforce3 video card for $90. He bought one and tried it and it ALMOST outperformed a Trident 1 MB video card found in older 486's. This was obviously a poor knock off of the Geforce 3 chip.

As an Apple fan

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd much rather see what the insides of Steve Jobs look like.

D'ohhh!

[BoarderPhreak]

No warranty for you! :-O

wow they put...

[Count]

100yen in each iPod!

Re:PortalPlayer

[Anonymous Coward]

Since SCSI is commonly pronounced as "scuzzy," I propose that SDMI be prounounced as "sodomy." That way, it'll be possible to walk in to Fry's and loudly inquire about "scuzzy sodomy devices."

Re:Why no USB then (Apple PC required)?

[Srsen]

Reply from Apple:
Thank you for your interest in the iPod. We appreciate the input of users such as yourself. Unfortunately, we have no plans to support your platform at this time. We would like to direct you to our online Apple Store and our selection of the popular iBook laptops.
- Department of Irony

Re:It's great to have sites like this

[DrSbaitso]

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

You're right... I am really sick of displays I can read on handhelds. Why have 32 bit color and 400x200 resolution (or whatever it really is) when you can have 1bit color and half that screen size? Also, who needs a pen to input stuff when you can enter letters by pressing the up and down arrows on your iPod!

*sarcasm off* This thing is cool but let's not get TOO ridiculous. Hehe.

Re:Translated Version

[lord_ashaman]

When you connect to the Mac in trouble state, it is lovely and others
The forcing Sad iPod was indicated. One time to try seeing you want
It will do also the air, but the one which is not seen happy is

I love you babelfish!

Re:The underlying theme

[silly window]

I switched from Wintel to Mac and am very happy with the switch. Mac OS 9's interface was a little difficult for me to like and the hardware is a little pricey, but everything else about the computer is great. It is nice to have a computer that is easy to set up and is stable. My Apple computer is my bitch! It does what I tell it to do without giving me any lip! I still used my old PC to run Linux, but since installing OS X, my Linux box has been collecting dust. Apple is counting on more people like me to switch. That's why there are Apple Stores popping up all over the country.

Re:iPod Copying Limitations

[enqueue]

nothing prefixed with a little "i" runs on linux.

But Linux runs on iSeries. :-)

Macintosh Jr commercial

[CeramicNuts]

what about Macintosh Jr. -- "The power to crush the other kids."