mrmarbury wrote:I am not sure anymore but I think the internal disk is also just some SD card slotted into that SoC. Can anyone confirm?
Yes, generic 16GB micro SD card. People have even swapped it out for larger ones, works fine as long as it's formatted correctly and retains the correct folder structure.
The SOC originally came with a 4GB variant, I think that also had twice the CPU as well, while the MPC Key 61 has no such CPU improvement, so perhaps they are getting the board custom built these days.
As a casual observer it does seem crazy to skimp on these aspects given the relatively low costs of jumping up the ram and CPU spec to something pretty juicy, but beyond the economics I'm not sure exactly how simple a job it is to adapt everything to a different spec CPU (or completely different SOC). I've seen people claim it's a PITA so unlikely to happen until they decide to go all in for the 'next generation' hardware, which I don't think these alleged new MPCs are. No idea though, but from the leaks I'm assuming this MPC XL is just the original MPC X with different skin, 4GB ram, ethernet port (and maybe 'clicking' data wheel?) . Ultimately as things stand the MPC Key has more ram than the more expensive and supposed flagship, so that seems to be something they have to address one way or another.
But I'm surprised with all the talk of MPC 3.0 again, I always assumed this wouldn't come until the next generation hardware arrived. But like everyone else, I did see the 'leaked' MPC Software 3 placeholder on their store, so, let's see what happens.
... if those rumours are true I mean. I am still hoping for some FCC listing of a new X(L) that is not as anticlimactic. At the moment it feels like Akai/inMusic is out of ideas really. I might also just expect too much from inMusic. But I feel that there is still more innovation possible.
