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08/11/2005, 10:45am, EDT
Thursday, August 11th
Mac Mini teardown reveals notebook PC components
iSuppli today issued a press release describing the teardown of Apple's Mac Mini, featuring a 1.25GHz G4 with 256MB of DDR333 SDRAM and a 40GB hard drive. Concluding that it featured a "cutting-edge design that showcases Apple’s aplomb for developing elegant systems, iSuppli said that the Mac Mini was a PC that is designed and built like a laptop, with an estimated bill-of-materials cost of $275. Some features specific to notebooks discovered include the power supply which is external, and major components including the hard drive and the optical disk drive which employ the laptop form factor. The Semiconductors used in the Mac mini are highly integrated, particularly the core-logic ASIC, which integrates the functions typically found in separate Northbridge and Southbridge chips into a single device, according to the release.
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"Discovered." Thanks a lot. I was eating a bowl of cereal at the time and shot milk out my nose all over my keyboard.
Where is Captian Obvious when you need him?
Perhaps someone should save these guys the trouble of an iPod Mini tear down and tell them that it uses flash memory like just about every other small electronic device and that it has the same kind of head phone jack that was used on the original SoundBlaster card.
LOL
But laptop parts?! I was punk'd, dammit!
I shot some Ice Cream out my nose reading this bit of info. Why haven't the other mac site caught wind of this?
From your boyfriend, I'm guessing... Why haven't the other gay sites caught wind of this...?