{"id":365,"date":"2012-03-19T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/?p=365"},"modified":"2012-03-19T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:18:31","slug":"the-new-apple-tv-has-8gb-flash-storage-and-512mb-ram-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"The New Apple TV has 8GB Flash Storage and 512MB Ram (Teardown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we announced earlier, we got our hands on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the new Apple TV\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">earlier than expected and have loved all of it\u2019s 1080p goodness. While we already knew there was a\u00a0single-core A5 processor inside, a forum user from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">XBMC.org<\/span> has done a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">teardown<\/span>\u00a0of the device to reveal its insides.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the teardown, we find that the new Apple TV still has the same 8GB of flash storage like its second-generation brother, but has received a bump to 512MB of RAM\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-366\" title=\"ATV2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg 778w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think Apple would have upgraded the storage beyond 8GB to handle\u00a0larger 1080p video files, but Cupertino-based Apple chose to stay with Toshiba\u2019s drive. Since the Apple TV has such a reliance on streaming, file size won\u2019t be that big of a deal. Netflix has already\u00a0announced\u00a0that it supports 1080p video streaming to compliment the new Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>The 512MB of RAM, from manufacturer Hynix,\u00a0is an upgrade from the past 256MB of RAM. The RAM boost may make things a bit snappier.\u00a0Lastly, the third-generation device features a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">second antenna<\/span>, but there\u2019s no word on what that antenna\u2019s use is exactly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/apple-tv-inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-367\" title=\"apple-tv-inside\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/apple-tv-inside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/apple-tv-inside.jpg 560w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/apple-tv-inside-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-366\" title=\"ATV2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2.jpg 778w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ATV2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we announced earlier, we got our hands on\u00a0the new Apple TV\u00a0earlier than expected and have loved all of it\u2019s 1080p goodness. While we already knew there was a\u00a0single-core A5 processor inside, a forum user from XBMC.org has done a\u00a0teardown\u00a0of the device to reveal its insides. From the teardown, we find that the new Apple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}