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December 18th, 2009, 08:50
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We've already played with the Chumby One (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/chumby-one-review/) and fell for it, so it did hurt a bit when our friends at iFixit (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ifixit) decided to rip this cute device apart. Actually, it wasn't as heartbreaking as we thought, especially when the hackers spotted a cute message below the Kingston 2GB microSD card -- containing the firmware -- on the logic board, courtesy of Andrew "bunnie" Huang, VP Hardware Engineering and Founder of Chumby Industries (http://www.engadget.com/tag/chumby). Other notable discoveries include a Freescale i.MX233 processor, Hynix 64MB DDR RAM and a removable "Ralink-based RT2571 USB Wi-Fi dongle" (note: extra USB port!). Feel free to check out the guts after the break -- just promise you won't cry or faint.
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We've already played with the Chumby One (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/chumby-one-review/) and fell for it, so it did hurt a bit when our friends at iFixit (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ifixit) decided to rip this cute device apart. Actually, it wasn't as heartbreaking as we thought, especially when the hackers spotted a cute message below the Kingston 2GB microSD card -- containing the firmware -- on the logic board, courtesy of Andrew "bunnie" Huang, VP Hardware Engineering and Founder of Chumby Industries (http://www.engadget.com/tag/chumby). Other notable discoveries include a Freescale i.MX233 processor, Hynix 64MB DDR RAM and a removable "Ralink-based RT2571 USB Wi-Fi dongle" (note: extra USB port!). Feel free to check out the guts after the break -- just promise you won't cry or faint.
Continue reading Chumby One gets the iFixit treatment, greets world with a cute hidden message (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/chumby-one-gets-the-ifixit-treatment-greets-world-with-a-cute-h/)
Chumby One gets the iFixit treatment, greets world with a cute hidden message (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/chumby-one-gets-the-ifixit-treatment-greets-world-with-a-cute-h/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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