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10 GB iPod Mini & 80 GB iPod?

aussie_geek said:
Sounds great. 😀 I wonder what the power consumption and RPM's of these new drives are. I am sure they will find their way into Notebook computers in a few years. Imagine that - PowerBook G6, only 1/2 inch thin 100Gb HD, 10 hour battery life 😛.......

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You can even imagine a scenario where you have two of these 1" drives built in for 160GB of data. But the biggest barrier to these going into laptops is the speed. 4200 rpm just doesn't cut it any more.
 
oingoboingo said:
Unless Apple starts to move the iPod beyond its current music and photo storage capabilities (read: video), then I can't see an 80GB iPod generating much interest. Yes, an iPod can be used as a removable hard drive and all the rest of that, but how many of the millions of new iPod users who have joined the ranks in the past 6 months will care beyond the fact that they can store their entire CD collections 5 times over?
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Well, with 80GB, you'll be able to do:

music
photos
videos
and Home on iPod!
 
dongmin said:
Well, with 80GB, you'll be able to do:

music
photos
videos
and Home on iPod!
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That's the kind of stuff I'm looking forward to ('Home on iPod' especially). That's why I commented that unless Apple expands the iPod's applications beyond music and photos, then an 80GB product won't be all that exciting.
 
Awesome news! Sounds like we can look forward to a 1.5 hour keynote about how great the iPod is and some news about sales at the iTMS.

And the "one more thing" will be about the three 'amazing' new colors now available for iPod Socks.
 
dongmin said:
You can even imagine a scenario where you have two of these 1" drives built in for 160GB of data. But the biggest barrier to these going into laptops is the speed. 4200 rpm just doesn't cut it any more.
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Yes for video and audio and new OS you need 7200rpm
 
Man this is rough.

I know I am going to buy the next iPod mini for the better battery life. (I do a lot of international flying.)

And then, with a 10 gig drive, I'll have to get another one because of the sizable capacity jump.

Curses...the continuous march of technology is brutal sometimes...
 
Littleodie914 said:
Woo hoo! A 10GB mini would be awesome... Especially if the size were to stay the same, or even get smaller! 😱
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Yeah looking like we are getting iPod micro 😛
 
Good to hear, but not surprising - that's the way technology goes!

Hmm, maybe Steve will surprise us and actually announce these at MWSF next week - after all, it's not like has has much else to talk about... 😉 😎
 
A 10GB mini would go a long way towards closing the growing gap in the iPod product line. There is currently nothing in between the 4GB (soon to be 5GB) mini and a 20GB iPod.
 
Toshiba announced similar 1.8" specs just recently. They created a way to represent the bits vertically instead of horizontally, which can make more data fit on the disk. Release date is mid-2005. Dual-platter version will hold 80GB of data, whereas a 40GB version will be able to be reduced to 1 Platter.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the slimmer 40GB iPod, and hopefully a price-cut as well.

Currently, Apple uses Toshiba drives in its regular iPods, and Hitachi drives in its iPod mini.

Link to original info: http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/12/14/toshiba/index.php
 
swissmann said:
I think 10 GB is starting to be adequate in 80 is close to being adequate for a lossless form of encoding.
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There you go!

PLEASE don't say silly things like "80GB is way too much". That's the oddest thing I've ever heard. I'd LOVE to be able to fit my entire collection on my iPod in Apple Lossless. That would be a total dream come true.

Now just give us optical/coax out...
 
Xtremehkr said:
I should add that Pods can't really become too small. All accessories are kind of a pain to wear, maybe the shape/form could evolve into something more wearable.

Maybe one day the entire Pod could just be an earpiece with an extension leading to the other ear. Like a Bluetooth earpiece with an line leading to the other ear. I don't want to favor left/right but I am thinking of something along the lines of the radio only Walkman that is housed entirely as a headset.
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I'd be happy if Apple would just come out with over-the-ear sports ear buds. As cool as the white ear buds look, I can barely walk very far without them falling out. And forget about running.
 
Since I got my 4g iPod I've been blown away by the speed at which it transfers files as a hard drive, and a music player for that matter. An 80gb iPod hard drive would be awesome, and the mp3 player would be an awesome bonus! I am content with my 20gb for now though. They have to add video to get me interested, as someone else already stated.
 
come on 10 GB mini. . . . while my 1st gen 10 GB iPod is nearly full, i think id delete some never listened to songs to give myself some extra space so i could have the cooler form factor of the mini. but if its the second half of the year then it will probably be announced in the summer and ship in fall.
 
Flying Llama said:
well, 80 gigs wouldn't be used for music, but files and photos.
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What makes you say that? I've got 35G of music, ripped at 128K AAC. If ripped at a higher bitrate, my CD collection could easily fill 80G. And there are plenty of people with collections larger than mine.

Using a codec like Apple Lossless (that claims to get 2:1 compression), you have an average bitrate of around 700K. At this rate, an 80G drive can hold about 250 hours of music - or about 3750 songs (assuming an average length of 4 minutes per song.)
 
wow... genius... almost seems too good to be true. that definatly has enough storage for a laptop. it probably takes up less space and power, leaving more for the processor... do i smell a powerbook around here somplace?
 
I'm not sure if this is public info yet, but Seagate is going to start making 1.8" drives for the ipod.

Not really a big deal, but I think they make the best HDD hands-down (five year warranty).
 
Who thinks everyone forgot about the 2.5hd? I've had my lap top for over a year now, and have yet to see a faster and larger drive than the 80gig/4800 that I have.

oh well, yay mini, maybe I can use one of those drives in a few years 😉
 
virus1 said:
wow... genius... almost seems too good to be true. that definatly has enough storage for a laptop. it probably takes up less space and power, leaving more for the processor... do i smell a powerbook around here somplace?
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Aren't these drives only 4200? The current PB offers an upgrade to a 5400, so that would be a step backwards. For big honkin' video files, you really want 5400 as the base config with an option to step up to 7200, don't you?
 
proglife said:
There you go!

PLEASE don't say silly things like "80GB is way too much". That's the oddest thing I've ever heard. I'd LOVE to be able to fit my entire collection on my iPod in Apple Lossless. That would be a total dream come true.

Now just give us optical/coax out...
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You have optical/coax headphones? 😉
 
I for one am waiting for an 80gb model before I upgrade my 3g 40 gig. I use about 35 GB now, but 80gb would allow me to compress my entire cd library with Apple lossless.
 
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