Thread: New Sony model to be called PRS-300 and PRS-600
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Old 07-30-2009, 05:27 PM   #128
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Originally Posted by igorsk View Post
Another thing I found... it seems the PRS-300 uses the older CPU (Dragonball MX1) that was used in PRS-500 and not the MXL of 505... are they trying to cut costs by using old stock of processors that they piled up?

(PRS-500 board image from http://www.msh-tools.com/ebook/internals.html)
Hmm... does that mean that it is more likely that any firmware improvements in the 300 can be backported all the way back to the 500 by Sony?
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