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Title: Zune Dismantled
Post by: speculatrix on November 20, 2006, 05:10:04 pm
http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=131 (http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=131)

MX31L processor, Samsung memory, Tosh hdd, wifi module all very nicely photographed.

It'll be interesting to read about the zune wifi protocol being hacked, so we can run a zune emulator, and thus receive lots of nice audio files!

I'm wondering how long before someone finds out how to break into a zune remotely over wireless and download all it's content...
Title: Zune Dismantled
Post by: koen on November 20, 2006, 05:41:47 pm
It's mindboggling that ipods can show h264 video with the same resolution on a 80MHz arm cpu and microsoft needs a 533MHz cpu *with* vfp
Title: Zune Dismantled
Post by: Da_Blitz on November 20, 2006, 06:43:33 pm
the zune is a rebranded toshiba gigabeat with a mod or two if i remeber correcttly. also i belive its bassed off the freescale refrence design

h263 is a tricy standard, i know how to encode a h263 file the ipod dosent have enough grunt to play back. also dont forget that its a "hardware assisted" chipset and so has somthing like a vfp dedecattied to just crunching h263 data

diffrence is microsoft does it all in software (well partially the iMX3 does have hardware h263 decoding abilities, apparentlly you can serioslly clock down the core and mem speed if you use it, as long as you trust freescale whitepapers)
Title: Zune Dismantled
Post by: Ragnorok on November 22, 2006, 07:25:36 pm
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It's mindboggling that ipods can show h264 video with the same resolution on a 80MHz arm cpu and microsoft needs a 533MHz cpu *with* vfp :)
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- I don't find it mind-boggling at all.  SNAMSU ... Situation Normal, All MS'd Up!  Apple has always been able to design circles around MS ... MS has always been able to market circles around Apple.  Course that could be a-changin'...