Usually it's Time magazine with the early product photos. (LCD iMac, right?)
New iPods on Monday
Wow 10 GB is all of the music I own.
How many of you that have 50+GB actually listen to most of it?
How many of you that have 50+GB actually listen to most of it?
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Originally posted by Stogieman: I agree. The original iPod had the best button setup. And i prefer mechanical scroll wheel over the touch wheel too. Hey, IronKnee, another cover to add to your collection. 
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My only problem with the mechanical scroll wheel was that after using it for a while (~6 months) it got really loose and when I was jogging with the iPod and didn't have the hold button on, it would switch volume levels and that was highly annoying.
This is the upgrade ive been waiting for. personally i never liked the interface of the current iPod. i have a first gen and like the buttons around the scroll wheel. But im glad they have incorporated the mini's interface, cause i think its the best thus far. my iPods goin up on eBay 
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Originally posted by jerry1: I guess the 60GB model will be $499 with 40GB being lowered to $449. Dunno for sure, but that looks like what they are referring to.  |
A 50 dollar difference between 60 gig and 40 gig ? Nobody in their right mind would buy the 40 gig. I highly doubt those prices.
Otherwise, the new ipod looks cool. I don't actually have one yet, so maybe it's a good time to get one. I don't like MP3's, and I figure a big model will hold a few AIFF's.
The question that most interests me is availability. Immediate or near future?
oh man, time to sell my 40!!!!
Anyone interested?
Anyone interested?
Wow, looks very nice. Pretty much the same, but I like that bluish centerpiece with all the buttons on it. Looks like I might finally cave and save up for one.
Looks good. I bet the scrollwheel gets lit up red when the backlight is on. Otherwise, it would probably be solid white instead of frosty-colored.
Wait...
So, the winners of the iTMS sweepstakes...
...will get old iPods?
...or?
So, the winners of the iTMS sweepstakes...
...will get old iPods?
...or?
MSNBC - You heard it here first!
really wonderful !
BTW: what model are Steve�s glasses?, cool ones
BTW: what model are Steve�s glasses?, cool ones
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Originally posted by jld: I got pushed into the pool with my original 5 gig ipod in my pocket, a couple weeks ago. My brother in law felt bad and promised to replace it. I wanted to wait for a new release, but he felt so bad he went out and got me one last week. |
...so you just got a new iPod to replace one that's a couple of years old and you're pissed?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457434/site/newsweek/
No recording capability?
No sale to me, Apple.
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More efficient menus. There's less thumbing required to get to your favorite stuff. "Music" is a first-level entry, and now a single click initiates the popular technique of shuffling your library for playback. New features. You can create multiple on-the-go playlists and delete songs from those ad hoc mixes. And audiobooks are not only easier to find, you can listen to them at normal speed, slower or 25 percent faster, without its sounding like a Munchkin. Longer play. Coast-to-coasters rejoice: the new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges�a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power. Lower price. The top-of-the-line iPod, holding 10,000 songs (40 gigs, as geeks will tell you), now costs $399. The lower-capacity model, with room for 5,000 songs (20 gigs), costs $299. That's a $100 price reduction for each. (There's no more 15-gig model.) |
No sale to me, Apple.
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Originally posted by TailsToo: How many of you that have 50+GB actually listen to most of it? |
I doubt there are that many people that have a collection that requires a 40 to 60 gb ipod. What it would allow is re-burning at lower compression rates for a better quality listening experience.
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot: No recording capability? No sale to me, Apple. |
What's the big deal, you can get an add-on to do this if you MUST have this feature .. but, I don't need it and I wouldn't want to pay for it either. I'm guessing Apple has done enough research to know that this is another feature that not that many people will make a buying decision based on that feature alone.
If they put everything in it that someone said "... if they don't put feature xyz in the ipod, no sale to me, Apple" the ipod would be as big as a car.
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457434/site/newsweek/ No recording capability? No sale to me, Apple.
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You forgot to mention that the new iPod is only available in white. I'm glad that Apple didnt introduce colors in the mainstream iPod.
And yeah whats the big deal about recording ? Agree with what joelcpa said.
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Originally posted by joelcpa: What's the big deal, you can get an add-on to do this if you MUST have this feature .. but, I don't need it and I wouldn't want to pay for it either. I'm guessing Apple has done enough research to know that this is another feature that not that many people will make a buying decision based on that feature alone. |
The ONLY thing that will justify purchase of a new one is REAL recording capability. What the current generation does is NOT proper recording. I'm sorry, but 8-bit 22kHz mono is useless (for anything other than voice memo).
If the iPod could record even in 128kbps mp3 (and the chips inside ARE capable, AFAIK), it would kill the market for minidisk recorders overnight. Every journalist I know would buy one (they're all on minidisk currently), as would every musician and sound technician (a lot of those already have one, but the rest that don't invariably cite lack of recording-capability as the clincher).
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Originally posted by joelcpa: I doubt there are that many people that have a collection that requires a 40 to 60 gb ipod. What it would allow is re-burning at lower compression rates for a better quality listening experience. |
Also, I keep reading that people don't have such large collections of music. Comes up every time the iPod is discussed.
Bull argument.
a) I know many that DO have such a large collection - much of it legal. Music collectors are not, and have never been, a rare phenomenon.
b) Why do you people keep missing that the PRIMARY feature advantage the iPod has over competitors is FireWire/USB2 mass storage compatibility? The thing is a pocket-sized hard drive. I have never heard a sensible argument *against* more hard drive space.
-s*
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Originally posted by Eriamjh: Meh. Same controls as a mini. Big whoop.
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I expect some other features too, hopefully a big software update, the iPod G3 users will hopefully benefit from this too.
i'm pretty sure it will come with a voucher for 5 or 10 free downloads, its stupid they haven't done this yet.