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iPod dissection video

So what's really inside your iPod? This video gives you the answer. All you you need is a putty knife (or reasonable equivalent thereof) and a willingness to completely destroy your property if things go wrong. (Unless, of course, that guy who works at the desk next to yours leaves his iPod out again--you're probably completely justified in assuming that he's volunteering it for exploratory surgery.) Fortunately, the young woman in the video manages to restore her iPod to its previous working state (or so it would seem) without incident.

Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family

iLounge dissects 2G iPod nano, posts gory details



Why, iLounge, why? The 2G iPod nano was announced barely two days ago. It still had its entire product cycle ahead of it! So young, so innocent.. and apparently so ripe for the dismantling. The gurus of all things iPod have dissected what looks like a silver 2G iPod nano (though I'm not sure whether it's 2GB or 4GB) for all the world to see.

While the majority of us probably won't get much out of looking at this internal iPod guts pr0n, I can think of one basic lesson we can pass on to the iPod owning luddites of our lives: if they ever, during their experience of owning an iPod, see any of these parts from it - that's a bad thing.

Filed under: Hardware

Inside Apple's Mighty Mouse

mightymouse_gutsIt always amazes me when I see these dissections. Someone plunks down a neat stack of their own, hard-earned cash for a brand new Apple product that they know will be dissembled the instant they get it home. Of course, I'm always happy enough to look. The urge to "see how it works" has been with me since I was a kid taking radios apart (sorry, dad), and I'm sure it is responsible for my working in IT today.

Anyway, Apple Matters looks at Daniel Kushner's examination of the little device's innards, which he describes as the complexity of making something work simply. The gallery is not for the timid (words like "cadaver," "guts" and "tongue" are brandied about), so be forewarned.

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