What’s Inside? Boxee Box Teardown
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Never invite the folks at iFixit to your home. Leave them alone for just a minute and they’ll have unpacked their torx-wrenches and spudgers and be all up in your TV, laptop, iPad or whatever you foolishly left in the room with them.
Keep them in their natural habitat, though, and they’re awesome, as we can see from this teardown of the Boxee Box, the set-top box that brings all your media, and all the internet’s media, onto your home TV.
Kidding aside, we were pretty excited to see the inside of the Boxee Box, if only to find out just how the computery bits fit inside the odd-shaped case. The answer, it turns out, is “neatly”.
The truncated cube shape of the box means some clever thinking has gone into packing everything in. Circuit-boards have been made to non-standard shapes, but the actual bits and pieces are easy to get to. Everything is held in by Phillips screws, and there are standard parts, too, like the Mini PCI-E wireless card.
The Box itself is actually pretty small (as is the very clever QWERTY-backed remote), and features a glass front-panel through which the Boxee logo glows. There’s an SD-card slot for quickly loading up movies, 1GB RAM and 1GB flash storage and an Intel CE4110 processor running at 1.2GHz. This, along with many of the internals, is identical to that in the more expensive Logitech Revue Google TV box.
The Boxee Box, made by D-Link but powered by Boxee’s popular XBMC-based multimedia software, launched today in 33 countries. In a post on Wednesday night, Boxee’s Andrew Kippen announced that the company was working to bring Hulu Plus and Netflix Watch Instantly to the device before the end of the year.
For a full rundown of the Boxee Box’s hardware specs and components, take a look a the iFixit gallery.
Boxee Box Teardown [iFixit]
See Also:
- Hands-On With the Boxee Set-Top Box and Remote
- Boxee CEO: Google TV Could Boost or Crush Us
- Boxee Beta, Now On Apple TV
- Boxee Beta Is a Web Video Streamer's Dream
- Mr. Fixit Goes Open Source With DIY Repair Site
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