Zune HD: seriously good hardware…
By Ben Robinson on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 2:01 PM PST In Devices, Hardware
iFixit have been at it again, ripping apart all manner of portable devices for our viewing pleasure. This time it’s the Zune HD that gets the treatment, and iFixit have good things to say:
We glossed over one very important detail when we tore apart Microsoft’s new PMP last week. The Zune HD represents a first for Microsoft in more ways than are immediately apparent — it is the first mass-market gadget we’ve seen that has a machined aluminum case!
Microsoft is using the same milling technology to produce the Zune HD that Apple is using on their aluminum notebooks, and that Dell uses to make the Adamo. With the new Zune, Microsoft has beaten Apple at their own game and produced a multi-touch PMP that is smaller, lighter, and vastly easier to repair than the iPod touch.
So, there we have it – good hardware from Microsoft – which to be fair, always has been the case with their PC peripherals, so it’s nice to see it translating to their Mobile devices also.
You can see the full teardown on the Zune HD at iFixit here.
[Via: iFixit]
The Zune is a stand alone turd floating in a rusty bowl waiting to be flushed. Zero App’s. Microsoft is so pitiful anymore. Another waste of shareholders money.
Best piece of kit available.
Beating every other media player and certainly mucht better than the clunky the iPod touch
Zune apps will come as the software develoment kit has been shipping late and the Zune and Xbox integrated store will only open in october
So in your eyes because the Zune doesn’t have 75,000 apps to make it better it sucks. That sounds kinda fux’d up to me, so lets use our brains to think. If i go and buy and MP3 player i want it to do just that play MP3’s, now what gives it an advantage is that it can also show pictures and video just like the Ipod, but wait there’s more… and it can also surf the web. well it looks to me that i’m already getting more than what i paid for. App’s are extra. yes it would be nice to have apps but it is not a necessity. But wait a sec the Zune does have apps, not 75,000 but defiantly not Zero.
ronalds a retard, theres 9 apps already not zero, and many more are coming. know your shit before you talk it
Everyone should get one of these. They’re nifty little devices. I got one for myself, and wrote a review on it here: http://gizmoelectronics.blogspot.com/2009/10/zune-hd.html
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The jury is out on this one, the Zune HD is a hit and will be a proven hit come December.
Look at the 9 apps/games that are available – they have a qualtiy that NO app for the iPod touch/iPhone can even match.
“Look dude, my iPhone can play a fart sound.” -tired
Awesome hardware, barely any software.
I love Microsoft, but, really, no apps?
Using a Samsung’s OLED. Screw that Samsung, you guys are crazy to sell your great technology to a rival. For what?