A good litmus test for any so-called gadget lover is a propensity to ogle teardown photos. So, if the image above of a delicately splayed iPod nano by iFixit gives you pause, if it causes you to utter an involuntary — wow — beneath your breath then by all means, consider yourself a nerd. TechInsights did its own analysis to discover that the seventh generation nano features SanDisk-branded flash memory, an Apple-branded Cypress CY8C20746B touchscreen controller, and a Samsung APL3278A01 ARM application processor with 64MB of Mobile DDR SDRAM. If you noticed that too, then we'll happily play the role of the little spoon while snuggled up together in front of the carnage below.
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