iPod Mini Autopsy

tritone writes "Some fearless soul has disassembled his iPod mini and provided pictures and commentary about the process. This really does seem to be an autopsy since he managed to kill it in the process. That's $249 well spent in the pursuit of knowledge. See the full report at www.ipodlounge.com."

Well...

[baldass_newbie]

Is the battery at least covered under warranty?

Eep!

[PatrickThomson]

No comments at all and already slashdotted... What's the webserver running on, an iPod?

When,

[JoeLinux]

will they put out the f*cking $100 one? The one we were all hoping for? Right after Duke Nukem Forever comes out, right?

$249?

[glen604]

Did he really spend the money on the iPod, or was it discovered inside a crashed flying saucer somewhere?

More like murder

[cerskine]

In an autopsy, the doctor doesn't kill anything. So it was more like a murder, then. Think before you type.

Get Riker to do the narration...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and you've got the next boffo fox special!

Duh

[savagedome]

This really does seem to be an autopsy since he managed to kill it in the process

/.ers know that real men use 'kill -9' to do this.

Re:The iPod

[Anonymous Coward]

It's whack.

But you know what's good? Learning to click the Post Anonymously checkbox when you're going troll with a lame, overused joke. :-)

I'm sure...

[thelasttemptation]

I'm sure in a month or two he could have gotten a dead one on ebay, thus saving himself $250. Why, oh why kill a good one?

autopsy ?

[funny-jack]

This really does seem to be an autopsy since he managed to kill it in the process.

Somehow I doubt that the D.A. would see it that way.

Re:Duh

[Daverd]

You don't use kill -9 when you want to kill something in the process.

You use kill -9 when you want to kill the process. =)

All you really need to read is the conclusion

[_PimpDaddy7_]

Conclusion:

Don't take apart your new iPod mini.

Well that takes care of that, doesn't it? :)

"Post Anonymously" Button

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Mr Karma Whore,

Its traditional to use the 'Post Anonymously' button to avoid being called a Karma Whore when reposting articles that are /.'ed.

Cheers,
Rob.

Coming soon: iPod Mini's Dirty Secret...

[Anonymous Coward]

...they break when ham-handed fools take them apart, and Apple won't give said fools a free replacement!

Paging the Neistat brothers...

Re:When,

[Metallic Matty]

will they put out the f*cking $100 one? The one we were all hoping for? Right after Duke Nukem Forever comes out, right?

Of course they will. Right before Infinium Labs releases the Phantom.

Well..

[dtio]

..this definitely hacking for fun and [for apple's] profit ;)

Re:Server is already slow - here's the text

[Profe55or Booty]

Photo server is still up at http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/thumbnails.php? album=6

no... no it's not...

money well spent

[markov_chain]

That's $249 well spent in the pursuit of knowledge.

$249 is not a lot, but I would love to see his bandwidth bill this month ;)

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

$250???!???!! Do you know how many lap dances he could have bought with that? At full price, 10 lap dances, but generally strippers will give you a discount for quantity. Hell, he could've got more than a lap dance with that kind of money.

And the fact that there is a site called "ipodlounge.com".. It's a fucking music player!!! What is there to get all excited about? A whole fucking web site devoted to iPod masturbation? You people are fucking obsessed.

The truth of it all [slashdot.org]

Ummm....

[Stingr]

"This really does seem to be an autopsy since he managed to kill it in the process."

I'm no expert but aren't autopsies supposed to be performed after death??? I believe the word you are looking for is malpractice.

Re:autopsy ?

[rholliday]

"And you payed $249 for this dubious privledge. You're a sick sick man. I rest my case."

Re:Eep!

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Nah, probably a Newton 120.

Re:We Need Help...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've successfully interfaced with my iPod hard drive, and can read and write from it at blazing speeds right out of the box.

Re:Server is already slow - here's the text

[kiza]

> Photo server is still up at http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/thumbnails.php? album=6

Yeah, we took care of that.

Re:Eep!

[AvantLegion]

No comments at all and already slashdotted... What's the webserver running on, an iPod?

Yup, and a mini broken one at that.

Re:When,

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Which will come with a copy with Half-Life 2.

You may not find the screws again...

[autophile]

Turn the mini over, looking back into the top, you will see two tiny philips head screws on either side of another metal plate. Remove these with the #000 screwdriver carefully and put them in a safe place (don't drop these on the floor, you will never see them again).

...but you will hear them.

Whirrrrrrrr--clickclickclick*clunk!*--whirrrrrrrrr

--Rob

Re:Server is already slow - here's the text

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

>Tools needed: (1) Wiha 1.5mm flat head screwdriver (1) Wiha Philips #000 screwdriver (1) Needle nose pliers or medical (Kelly type) hemostats (1) Hair dryer

Given the outcome, this list is obviously not necessary and sufficient.

Nifty business idea though.

Re:I'm sure...

[System.out.println()]

Because he had to have it now. duh. In a month we'll have seen mini autopsies all over the place.

Slashdoted to hell, solution?

[zeux]

Ok listen everybody. Let's try to go on the website one by one.

Stop clicking the link, I'm going first ;)

Not an autopsy...

[ccnuggie]

An autopsy is performed -after- something is dead. Think before you type.

Erm

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't sound like he did was TOO bad, he just ripped a drive cable right? So he should be able to repair it...

Doesn't sound too hard. I'd like to see the followup where someone tells him how to repair it and we get to see amusing photos of the process!

autopsy? I think not

[pmbuko]

CmdrTaco needs to update his vocabulary. If the subject is alive before the procedure, but dead afterward -- that's murder! Or at least a malpractice lawsuit.

Re:$249?

[EvilTwinSkippy]

No, it's a 0.1 Megaflops.

Re:Well...

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Well at least you can recharge the battery on the ipod and get another few hours of enjoyment out of it. Unlike the lapdance.

Re:Duh

[jonadab]

Are you kidding? kill -9 is for wussies. Real men use init 1.

Re:Well...

[EvilTwinSkippy]

No, the battery is covered by the plastic housing of the case. Well, at least until you take the case apart.

Where do you think this one will end up?

[LothDaddy]

"FS: Mini iPod. $30

This was 'purchased from a friend' and I don't have anyway to test it. I'm selling this cheap and make no guarantees about function."

And he'll only charge $15 for S&H!

Re:Eep!

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually according to Netcraft:

The site www.ipodlounge.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.

Don't know if the Linux on iPod site has got all that working yet, so it might be Intel based ; -)

Re:Fool!

[System.out.println()]

Pretty much, yeah.
Would you want your parts to be smashed and have your quarks examined? I think not!

Re:I'm sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

...why kill a good one?

Because some people will do anything to get fr1st ps0t mortem.

Karma whore!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh wait.

Re:When,

[jmoen]

The funny thing is that a friend of mine just bought a brand new ATI Radeon 9800XT and got just that.
Not the game exactly but a pice of paper with a serial key on saying that _when_ the game is released he'll get a free copy of HL2.

Nice... :)

-jmoen-

Re:More like murder

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, what happened to Think Different?

Re:Eep!

[Omega1045]

An iPod running Windows 95a, with Personal Web Server.

Re:More like murder

[EvilTwinSkippy]

This is apple. It's an iTopsy.

Autopsy or Murder

[dentar]

If he killed it in the process then it's murder or more like involuntary manslaughter. Autopsy can only be given post-mortem.

Re:Waste of money indeed!

[Scrameustache]

For just $50 more (thats like just #30, not much) you get 10 times the space

Well, that's just completely misinformed. For 50 more you get 3 times the space actually.

I hope that Ipod mini is a flop!

Yes! How dare they engineer, design and sell products?!
Not only will I not buy it, but I wish financial ruin on them for their audacity in manufacturing a device not aimed at me!

But, just like how Apple sells 0.1 upgrades of OSX for the price of a 1.0 upgrade

Who are these people to number their upgrades thus?
I say if we are to feel that we are getting enough for what we pay, we musn't look at the actual additional features and performance upgrades! We want a BIGGER numbers: Only that is worth money!

Re:Fool!

[Greedo]

If that is case, I must be a friggin' genius!

Re:You may not find the screws again...

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Hey you can poke an iYe out with that.

Re:$249?

[error502]

A girl-friend of mine wanted to buy an iPod mini, too. I proceeded to explain why it was a waste of money and that she was stupid for even thinking to buy it.

I made her cry.

Needless to say, I am a great friend.

Re:Duh

[Stonent1]

Are you kidding? kill -9 is for wussies. Real men use init 1.

REAL men pull out the cpu while the computer is running! Real idiots run killall on a Sun box, pseudo idiots stop-a - sync.

Autopsy does not kill

[UtSupra]

A proper autopsy is done after the person is dead...

as the old joke goes

[geighaus]

Autopsy showed that that patient's death was caused by the autopsy.

Re:Site slashdotted

[The_K4]

Yeah, but it's more fun for use to watch the sever implode.....

Re:"Post Anonymously" Button

[doc_traig]

Dear Mr. Calling-Out-the-Karma-Whore,

It is traditional to not check the "Post Anonymously" box when calling out a karma whore and thus being "modded up" as Insightful, Funny, or, the jackpot, Underrated.

Best,
Traig

Re:$249?

[mtm]

Thanks. You made spew coke all over the internet!

Re:Not quite an autopsy

[darc]

From the article:

This is where I messed up and killed my iPod mini, I forgot to check and I pushed with all my might, ripping the ribbon cable off of the male connector. Oops.

That has got to be the most painful sounding innuendo ever.

not slashdotted; PETE has ddos attacked the site

[sam_handelman]

PETE (People for the Ethical Treatment of Electronics) maintains that the goals of science can be equally well served without doing harm to our bleeping, whirring, cousins. As a show of protest, they have initiated a series of ddos attacks against sites linked to by popular "electronic butchery forum" slashdot. [slashdot.org]

PETE spokesman Nigel Rehnquist defending the ddos attack, saying "the ethically important question is not - can electronics understand what is being done to them? The ethically important question is - can electronics feel pain? I've trained my tamagotchi to wail in agony when I press this button, which makes YOU a sadist!"

PETE has achieved notoriety in recent years for it's colorful lobbying and advertising efforts. One series of advertisements, which NBC declined to air, showed graphic depictions of graphing calculator-shaped puppets transmiting IR signals to one another and moaning in the throes of ecstacy. PETE called the advertisement a public service announcement to remind Americans how important and easy it was (only a bit of tape is required) to "fix" their graphic calculators. Prominent executives at another network approached about the ads, speaking on condition they not be identified, called the series of advertisements "disturbing, incomprehensible and weird." "One of them kept rocking his cellphone and singing to it," added one executive, "they scare me."

Re:We Need Help...

[AoT]

So if I sold the drive and the battery I could make a fortune.

Money here I come.

Re:$249?

[Anonymous Coward]

Should've been Pepsi. You missed out on irony points.

Re:$249?

[letdownjournals]

Did you also proceed to explain to her why it's a waste of money to buy all those fancy mall clothes, when a sweatshirt and a pair of Wal Mart jeans would cover her body just as well?

Next step!

[dynayellow]

Now you must demand that Apple give you a new one and create an iMovie of you defacing their advertisements.

Also, register appledidnotpreventmefromdestroyingmyminiipod.com

MSNBC, here you come!

Re:Well...

[awebus]

HAH, Thanks for the slashing guys...

Interesting terminology. In Australia, and I'm not sure where else, to 'slash' means to take a piss.

crappy laptop

[Anonymous Coward]

you should buy a crappy laptop before you buy an ipod mini [sophists.org]

Re:Well...

[trentblase]

I don't know about you, but I only take a couple minutes to recharge after a lapdance.

Re:Well...

[Lars T.]

So what does to slashdot mean in Australia? Writing yellow Morse Code in the snow?

Morse Code in the snow...

[Sapphon]

Snow?

Why haven't they got a "liar" moderation option ?

[N Monkey]

I don't know about you, but I only take a couple minutes to recharge after a lapdance.

Well I had some moderation points I wanted to use on the parent post, but I just couldn't find a "liar" or at least "probably deluded" option :-)