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USB 3.0 and SSDs, they were just made for each other, don’t you think? Kingston certainly seems to agree, as it’s now rolled out its first SuperSpeed portable solid state drive, giving it the catchy title of HyperX Max 3.0. It fits within the dimensions of a conventional 2.5-inch hard drive, but differs in being able to pump 195MB of data per second when reading or 160MBps when writing. Although pricing and availability details aren’t yet available, we can expect 64GB, 128GB and 256GB varieties to crop up some time soonish. Until then, can we interest you in some unboxing and teardown action, courtesy of our brethren over at Engadget Spanish? You’ll find it on video just past the break.

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Kingston unveils HyperX Max 3.0, a SuperSpeed SSD for your pocket, we tear it down (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What’s that, the greatest Android tablet of the moment caught without its pants on again? Oh, no, it’s just another iFixit special, tearing down a Samsung Galaxy Tab into its requisite bits, bobs, and a slab of Gorilla Glass. The removal of that pane turned out to be the trickiest part, requiring a lot of heat and a little “nervous prying” before it yielded. But, yield it did, and you can see the piece-by-piece teardown on the other end of the source link below.

Samsung Galaxy Tab torn down, is indeed not full of stars originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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

If you ever doubted that Microsoft’s Kinect was based on PrimeSense technology, you can leave those suspicions at the door — iFixit‘s separated the twin-eye motion sensing camera into its constituent parts, and there’s definitely PrimeSense silicon on board. To be precise, there’s a PrimeSense processor that handles images from the color and infrared CMOS auto-focus imagers, a Marvell SoC to interface with those cameras,64MB of DDR2 memory and 1MB of flash plus an accelerometer of all things. (Perhaps game developers intend to break the fourth wall when you inevitably knock the unit off your TV.) Filled with four different kinds of security screws and a fair bit of glue, Kinect’s a tough nut to crack. Seems like a small price to pay, however, when it’s so wonderfully robotic underneath. Oh, and speaking of the Kinect — don’t suppose you’ve read our full review?

Microsoft Kinect ripped to pieces, found to contain chips on tiny green boards originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s a lot we already know about Logitech’s Revue with Google TV, and after our walkthrough on Saturday’s Engadget Show, we also know just how NSFW the search results can be. All jesting aside, we did notice some amount of stuttering during our testing, and now we know why: for all intents and purposes, it’s a netbook. The knife wielding gurus over at iFixit tore into the Revue in order to see what kind of internals were powering it, and sure enough, a 1.2GHz Atom CPU was at the core. That’s marginally faster than the 1GHz A4 housed in the newest Apple TV, but there’s a lot more to process here than on Cupertino’s darling. There’s also 1GB of DDR3 memory as well as a grand total of 5GB NAND Flash (split between a Samsung and Hynix chip). Essentially, the hardware here is on par with netbooks from fall 2008 (the Dell Mini 9 is accurately mentioned), with “tons of open space” allowing the box to stay cool under pressure. So, you down with paying $300 for hardware you could’ve scored two years ago, or are you just now realizing that a basic HTPC isn’t that hard to setup.

Logitech Revue with Google TV torn down, netbook specs found within originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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