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May 8, 2008 10:21 AM PDT

Guts galore: Zune gets splayed

by Jasmine France
(Credit: CNET Networks/Jasmine France)

Earlier this week, Microsoft lured me and a handful of other tech journalists up to the Redmond campus with promises of Zune announcements and delicious, catered food. I would be lying if I said I wasn't just slightly more excited by the latter part of that guarantee. Seriously, I had the best chocolate-chip cookie of my life up there, but I digress. While stuffing visiting press silly, Microsoft also treated us to a variety of sessions led by everyone from Zune executives to engineers. Clearly, the software updates announced at the end of the day were the highlight, but the first half of the day wasn't entirely without merit. I got to see a Zune (two, actually) dissected into its many parts. It's always fun to see MP3 player innards on display, don't you think? I hope so, because I took plenty of photos for you and gussied 'em up with gory technical details. Go ahead and ogle; I won't judge.

For more than five years, Jasmine France has covered a variety of tech products for CNET--from scanners to keyboards to GPS devices--but she's happiest where she is now: sitting atop a pile of MP3 players, "testing" every music service known to man, and jamming a variety of earbuds in every shape and color into her absurdly small ears. E-mail Jasmine.
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by ilovepho May 9, 2008 10:11 PM PDT
I hope you had fun with the grey weather that the Seattle area weather had =D
I love MP3 innards too!
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by kennlee May 10, 2008 9:54 AM PDT
Microsoft should spend more time fixing their software than playing host to the media. When I tried to update the Zune software to 2.5, it got "stuck" at 99%, leaving me no choice than to reboor, uninstall and then re-install. Well, that worked, but now my Zune goes into endless "Sync" cycles. As soon as one completes, it starts all over again. Great cookies - bah! How about more of their crappy software. It totally overshadows their great hardware device.
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by zysmith May 12, 2008 11:02 AM PDT
Any of these pictures IN FOCUS? You should have skipped the cookies and learned how to use your camers.
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