The PSPgo isn’t even in stores yet, and the hardware mavens at iFixit have already stripped it down to its logic board.

Continuing their tradition of tearing down shiny, expensive new gadgets almost as fast as the gadgets hit the market, the iFixit guys grabbed a new PSPgo and pulled it to bits. Among their discoveries:

The PSPgo’s 930 mAh battery has more capacity than the Nintendo DSi (840 mAh) and the 3rd-gen iPod Touch (789 mAh).The battery is not officially user-replaceable like the DSi’s, but it is easier to swap than the Touch’s — opening the case and removing the battery requires no soldering and isn’t too tricky.A 16GB Samsung NAND chip provides the device’s internal storage, essentially replacing the UMD slot in the old PSPs.The PSPgo relies on Wi-Fi — or a PC connection — for downloading new media and games, but its Wi-Fi chip only supports old, slow 802.11b. Get with the times, Sony!The connectors for the joystick, top buttons, headphone jack, and Select/Start buttons are tricky to undo.Fortunately, the Select/Start button is all you need to disconnect in order to remove the logic board, and then the whole board comes right out.

Check out the entire PSPgo teardown on iFixit’s web site, or watch the embedded video (and a couple more photos) below. And don’t miss Wired’s review of the PSPgo and our gallery of PSPgo photos.

Sony provided warranty warnings in English, French and Spanish, just to make sure you know they don't want you in here.

Reduced to its components, the PSPgo reveals its elegant engineering. Sony used chips from Samsung, Cirrus, Sharp, Oki, Fujitsu, and Foxconn, but the main processor is Sony's own chip.

IFixit’s 2 minute, 33 second video shows how the PSPgo compares to other PSPs, and provides stills of many of the disassembly steps. Note: If you don’t care for annoying, bloopy electronic music , you can mute the soundtrack — you won’t miss anything.

Photos courtesy iFixit