220 gig still not large enough for my music in itunes...... but finding stuff on a 160gig classic is a bitch!
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New Toshiba Hard Drives Could Boost iPod Classic to 220 GB
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Well said. Let's just hope that Apple big-wigs feel the same way. Pity if they don't, though.
How about those of us that have more than 5 CDs worth of music?
My 160GB ipod is full, and it doesn't have all of my music on it (and yes, most of it in mp3 format). There is a pleasure in just having all your music on your ipod that you can shuffle through during an 8 hour work day. No managing playlists or deciding what to include and what to exclude on your piddly little 16GB ipod. No worrying about hearing the same song a few times a day. Just random play of over 30 years of accumulated music, form albums ripped into the computer to the free RCRD download I put on it last night...
Far from 'who cares'. I'll give you a nice Homer Simpson "arrrrrr" drool upon hearing of a (potential) 220GB capacity.
Oh sorry about my (HUGE) mistake! Now I won't be able to sleep at night.
Well then put a "hard drive" into the iPad! That will make the iPad even cheaper!
What would be more useful would be the option to select bitrate for synching with iTunes. I rip to ALAC on my Mac, but do I need that on my iPod with crappy earphones? No, but neither do I want just the option to transfer at 128kps.
Having said that, I don't feel the need to carry all my music with me anyway.
Toshiba does sell 240 GB 1.8" drives, but they're 0.8" deep & only work in iPod Video (not Classic). You can easily Google "iPod 240 'hard drive'"
There's a VERY BIG reason why none of you run Apple.
There's a VERY BIG reason why none of you run Apple.
Steve Jobs is famous for killing technology a year before it needs to be. If the iPod Classic is still around there is a reason for it. So the fact that it is still around when all he has to say it, "off with its head" and it will be done, says a lot.
Take for instance, the X Serve which was "served" its notice not long ago.
There's a VERY BIG reason why none of you run Apple.
Steve Jobs is famous for killing technology a year before it needs to be. If the iPod Classic is still around there is a reason for it. So the fact that it is still around when all he has to say it, "off with its head" and it will be done, says a lot.
Take for instance, the X Serve which was "served" its notice not long ago.
Well if you actually bothered to read some of the replies in this thread it would become quite plain that you're wrong and some people would want this.
Too bad, you've only just found out the world doesn't revolve around you and others have different needs/wants to yours. Must be a bad day for you to suddenly realise this.
I have a friend with mostly mp3 who is getting up there to 160. I've converted a lot of my apple lossless to mp3 to make space because I only have a 120 gb. 220 would be nice.
You did make a huge mistake and you are playing it off like it's nothing. Clearly you have no idea what the difference is between a HDD and an SSD. A 4200-RPM HDD in an iPad is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. Almost as bad as some people wanting an optical drive in the iPad.
Ive always been surprised that Apple didnt just offer one high-end HD-based (thicker) iPod Touch instead of keeping the Classic. After all, the Classic is still another hardware design anyway.
But lately it occurred to me that with an HD (used for cost reasons vs. massive flash drives), performance would suffer (app load times etc.). Maybe thats just not a great user experience when people can compare to a smaller flash-based Touch.
Still, a Touch with a big flash drive, whatever the cost and bulk, would be very cool in terms of pure capability! Might not be a big seller though.
Yes...for WAV or lossless compression files. Even 320K MP3s take up a fair amount of space.
There are lots of people out there that have (like me) 20,000 songs from huge libraries of music. We may only make up 5% of the iPod crowd but still 5% of 300 million Americans is 15million people. Now factor in worldwide consumers and even if you want to reduce it to 1% it's still a sizeable "market" to sell the Classic to in raw numbers.
My 20k+ @ 192k add up to about 180GB so I cannot fit them all on my Classic right now.
If I encoded them all at 320k it would eat about 290GB. Lossless compression would probably eat 400GB. WAV would probably eat 1TB.
Even if people had 10,000 tunes, that's a lot of music and space if you want to store it in a pristine level.
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Are there really some peolle who want moving parts in their ipad? Why not a vhs player?
Not going to happen...
The current iPod classic still uses a PATA HDD. All previous 1.8" HDD iPods used PATA. I really don't think Apple will switch to SATA. They could have done so 3 years ago when Toshiba introduced the GS (SATA) series, and they didn't.
The classic seems to be selling OK, but not good enough to warrant a full logic board overhaul in my opinion.
Sorry.
(Adam Young from ipodrepair.nl)
The current iPod classic still uses a PATA HDD. All previous 1.8" HDD iPods used PATA. I really don't think Apple will switch to SATA. They could have done so 3 years ago when Toshiba introduced the GS (SATA) series, and they didn't.
The classic seems to be selling OK, but not good enough to warrant a full logic board overhaul in my opinion.
Sorry.
(Adam Young from ipodrepair.nl)
Although I would love the 220GB over my 160GB classic, I'm still quite annoyed that there isn't a 128GB Flash Classic yet.
The iPod Touch and iPhones easily store 64GB in those super thin designs...the Classic is much thicker and could likely hold 128GB sometime very very soon since things always get smaller, faster, and cheaper in the computer world.
Maybe 2 Classics...a 220GB HDD and a 128GB Flash.
The iPod Touch and iPhones easily store 64GB in those super thin designs...the Classic is much thicker and could likely hold 128GB sometime very very soon since things always get smaller, faster, and cheaper in the computer world.
Maybe 2 Classics...a 220GB HDD and a 128GB Flash.
Actually, Apple hasn't done a thing yet. The drives are merely available if Apple decides to use them. And they may not. Its more likely that the iPod Touch will be updated to 128GB and the iPod Classic will be phased out.