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iPod Touch 3rd Generation Teardown

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  • We're working on getting it open. In the meantime, let's have some fun with numbers.

  • Retailing for $399 in the US, you'll be paying $6.23 per gigabyte for the 64 GB touch. That's no match for the $1.56 per gigabyte for the 160 GB iPod Classic.

  • Going back four years, the original nano was $62.25 per gigabyte, while the hard drive-based 60 GB iPod Video of that era was $6.65 per gigabyte.

  • Interestingly, that means that today flash is roughly equivalent to where hard drives were four years ago. In 2005, you could purchase a 60 GB iPod Video for $399, while today you can get a 64 GB iPod Touch for the same price.

  • Don't read too much into these numbers; there's lots of other costs and components to the iPods other than the raw storage medium.

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