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New iPod nano and Touch disassembled (Touch has Broadcom Bluetooth chip)
iFixit has posted illustrated articles on disassembling the new 4th Gen. iPod Nano and 2nd Gen. iPod Touch - page 4 of the Touch take-apart notes there's a Broadcom BCM4325 Bluetooth chip inside.
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Confirmation on booting from $20 (driverless) eSATA Express/34 card
After some reader mails asking for confirmation on booting from the $20 JMicron chip based (driverless) eSATA expresscard, I updated Lou's report from yesterday on the MacBook Pro/Express34 cards page to include a follow-up:

"Yes (I can boot from this card). And to be clear, no drivers were installed.
Using a cloned from MBP boot partition on the enclosure with a 1.0TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 7200 RPM. Uninstalled and used the same drive naked, for that test.

Incidentally, my MBP (2.5in) internal drive is 5400RPM and takes roughly twice the time to boot as the cloned eSATA/F1 drive through the eSATA card...
-Lou H."

The F1 1TB is a fast drive (and only 3 platters for 1TB as noted in Oliver's tests from Feb 2008, plus it would be defragmented from the cloning), although it's had some compatibility issues when used with the internal SATA of some intel-based iMacs (several reports in the drive database here from 2006 (white) iMacs on this, although Mac Pro and G5 tower owners didn't note problems).

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