Saturday January 14, 2006

- iPod with 120GB storage capacity in 2007? - Lionel - 16:03:44

Fujitsu has decided to start producing 1.8" HD (the format found in iPod), as other HD manufacturers have already decided or planned. And Fujitsu has posted high goals: grab 30% of market shares for this type of HD. Thanks to the perpendicular recording, Fujitsu expect to be ready by 2007 to release a 1.8" HD with a capacity of 120GB.
With such storage possibilities, one will have to find new capacities for iPods and similar devices. Maybe Apple will propose at that time to plug the iPod to your TV to watch movies in HD format.


[translation by Eric]

- iMacIntel disassembled! - Lionel - 15:53:26

As we had predicted it, our friends from Kodovarisan have fully disassembled the new iMacIntel. Beside the motherboard, the remaining parts and components of this iMac are really similar to the iMacG5 rev2.



One can notice that the processor is not soldered to the motherboard, but via a socket. So, it will be potentially possible to change it in the future, if Apple does not prevent such modifications by some hardware or software trick.

http://www.kodawarisan.com

[translation by Eric]

- An iPod nano with 8 GB - Lionel - 15:48:47

Source : XLR8yourMac

On the website of Multiarcade is shown how to double the capacity of an iPod nano 4GB to reach 8GB.


You simply need to solder a second 4GB NAND chips to the dedicated location.
In this case, the second chips was recovered from an broken nano.
The overall capacity of the modified iPod nano is 7.4GB.
Apparently it is clear that Apple has already planned future development for the iPod nano storage capacity, and will release upgrades if competitors are capturing too much market shares, or simply when the NAND chips price will have still decreased.


[translation by Eric]

- Powerlogix moves to the 7448 - Lionel - 09:23:35

Thanks to Bertrand for this note:

Here is a summary of the press release regarding the G4 7448 in Powerlogix's cards.

The advantages of the 7448: More L2 cache (1 Mb), enhanced DFS which allows the processor to vary the clock speed in order to save power. Since this processor was never planned to be used by Apple, Powerlogix apparently had to write drivers in order to make it compatible. There are also temperature sensors directly on the processor (in addition to those on the processor board) which can be viewed thanks to CPU Director.
The compatible cards should be announced shortly.

http://www.powerlogix.com/press/releases/2006/060110.html

[translation by jwa]