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November 2, 2006

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Finding out what makes the shuffle tick

Posted Nov. 2, ’06, 3:02 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iPod

Shuffled off this mortal coilThose iFixIt folks must be stopped. They can’t stop disassembling! Yesterday they were taking apart a new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro—today it’s a second generation iPod shuffle? The humanity. What’s next, the Black & Decker toaster oven their mom gave them last Christmas? Is nothing sacred?

You wouldn’t think there would be much meat in taking apart an iPod shuffle; they’re so tiny. But inquiring minds wants to know, and they will have their satisfaction. All you’ll need to render your brand new iPod shuffle into its component parts it a #00 Phillips screwdriver and a spudger (a small plastic shim).

Inside the diminutive music player, you’ll find the logic board, tiny Li-ion battery (hopefully non-explosive), even smaller 512MB 1GB memory chip, and just the one port for audio, power, and data. That’s it. Amazing, eh?

Let’s just hope that their bloodlust has been satisfied. Else they might be eyeing that poor, innocent little neighborhood Chihuahua.

[Thanks, Jason]


1 Comments

HAW HAW said:

512MB?

November 3, 2006 2:59 AM

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