Apple’s poor, puny Apple TV set-top box shares most of the same internals as a iPad, according to a teardown of a device.

The nimble engineers at iFixit burst open a Apple TV progressing this afternoon and found the same sort of Samsung peep chip that’s additionally inside a iPad, holding 8 GB of genius. iFixit speculates this storage will be used for caching whilst streaming TV shows as well as cinema.

The teardown additionally suggested which a Apple TV facilities a same A4 processor as well as volume of RAM (256MB) as a iPad.

Of march, a Apple TV has connectivity features which a iPad doesn’t: Ethernet, HDMI output, an AC adapter as well as an optical audio-out port. But it’s pretty interesting how identical a two inclination are differently. Perhaps this is the clue that a Apple TV and iPad will be really firmly integrated in a nearby future (going over a AirPlay streaming underline we’re already informed with).

An 8-GB drive doesn’t tune similar to most, but it’s pretty great considering a Apple TV’s $100 cost tab. And since a Apple TV’s focus is streaming media, 8GB should leave some-more than enough room for additional third-party apps, if Apple later decides to open an Apple TV app store, which a little have speculated to be a probability.

A full step-by-step teardown of a Apple TV can be found upon iFixit’s website.