RedTomato said:
I have two 12" powerbooks. I'd love a very small MBP or even a macbook sized MBP to replace those machines. I'm sure there's enough of a market (for either machine) for Apple to go that route.
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I have two 12" powerbooks. I'd love a very small MBP or even a macbook sized MBP to replace those machines. I'm sure there's enough of a market (for either machine) for Apple to go that route.
I don't know what kind of dope these guys are smoking who say "you don't need more than 60GB" iPods, but they need to change dealers.
I want an iPod for music, not even video (personally, I can't imagine watching a movie on a screen that small, but more power to those who can). Thing is, I hate the highly compressed junk, the quality is just aweful (certainly can't take mp3s). Sorry, but I can hear compressed audio, and I hate it. So, my only option would be Apple Lossless. That compresses roughly to 50% without any audio quality loss. With roughly 500GB per CD, I get 4 CDs compressed to Apple Lossless in 1GB. So, 60GB is about 240 CDs. I have more than 5000 CDs. To get them all on an iPod, it would have to have a 1.25 TERABYTE hard drive. Plus, I'd like to use it as a storage solution for photos when I'm on vacation, shooting 1000's of photos at 5MB each... plus assorted files, since I'd love to use it as an external hdd.
As you can see, if Apple put out a 3 terabyte iPod, I'd gobble it up, and ask for more. And that's not even getting into videos.
So, can we once and for all end the idiotic meme of "you don't need a drive bigger than x, y, z," where x, y or z simply describes your personal puny limited prejudice of today? Let others decide how big /small a drive they need. Sheesh!
I want an iPod for music, not even video (personally, I can't imagine watching a movie on a screen that small, but more power to those who can). Thing is, I hate the highly compressed junk, the quality is just aweful (certainly can't take mp3s). Sorry, but I can hear compressed audio, and I hate it. So, my only option would be Apple Lossless. That compresses roughly to 50% without any audio quality loss. With roughly 500GB per CD, I get 4 CDs compressed to Apple Lossless in 1GB. So, 60GB is about 240 CDs. I have more than 5000 CDs. To get them all on an iPod, it would have to have a 1.25 TERABYTE hard drive. Plus, I'd like to use it as a storage solution for photos when I'm on vacation, shooting 1000's of photos at 5MB each... plus assorted files, since I'd love to use it as an external hdd.
As you can see, if Apple put out a 3 terabyte iPod, I'd gobble it up, and ask for more. And that's not even getting into videos.
So, can we once and for all end the idiotic meme of "you don't need a drive bigger than x, y, z," where x, y or z simply describes your personal puny limited prejudice of today? Let others decide how big /small a drive they need. Sheesh!
Do it!
I replaced my problematic 12" iBook G3 with a 12" Powerbook G4 (1.33GHz combo for US$999) last spring.
Saved some weight (4.3lbs for the 12" Powerbook) and have a model with no known issues, unlike the iBook G3.
I doubt we'll ever see a 10" subnotebook from Apple.
I replaced my problematic 12" iBook G3 with a 12" Powerbook G4 (1.33GHz combo for US$999) last spring.
Saved some weight (4.3lbs for the 12" Powerbook) and have a model with no known issues, unlike the iBook G3.
I doubt we'll ever see a 10" subnotebook from Apple.
RedTomato said:
Spectrum said:
I'd rather have a Hitachi 160GB SATA 2.5in, they are usually a bit faster than Seagate drives, and cost less too boot.
Macrumors said:
iPod? Why limit it to that. Make mine an iPal, a full power (although slower) Macintosh running OS X in a handheld form factor. Same size as a video iPod, plays music, VOIP, Cellphone, GPS and it runs all our Macintosh Applications if somewhat slower. Full face screen. Mates with a Mac via Wi-Fi and FW for syncronization/backup/use as home.
That I would buy and pay more for than a mere iPod.
jayb2000 said:
I agree. While there might not be alot of people that could use even 30 GB, there are alot of people who could use 120 GB
FW800 for 120 GB iPods
FW800 would be a great idea for iPods. I'm almost to the point of standardizing on FW800 in my 17" PowerBook & my MDD PowerMac. I still have several FW400 drive around as I keep all of my drives. That means that its hard to have enough FW800 cases. Having my iPod work on USB2 only is a drag. I have all of those FW400 cables from my erd Gen iPod that are useless on my 5th Gen iPod. A change back to FW400 would to better for all. Just go out & see how many new Windows computers come with FW400 ports as standard.
One wonders that since Intel is the designer of USB2 if Apple had to agree to switch from FW400, an Apple tech, to USB, an Intel tech, in order to make the switch to Intel products. Others sayit was for just a little smaller size. Others say it was all about just a couple of more cents profit per unit. In any way having USB be the only interface for the full-sized iPod is a poor decision for mos Mac Users & with more newer Windows computers around, a poor decision for Windows Users.
Having a 120 GB FW800 would be great. You can never have too much storage. With that big of drive FW800 would be great.
When it comes to size some people probably still operate their Mac or Windows computer on less than 10 GB of total space. This is for the System, programs & all data stored. On the other hand some people probably have a GB or more of music. Then add pictures, movies, other data, a couple of hundred programs, Mac OS 10, Windows XP with a duplicate covering of programs, are being crimped with 4 750 GB hard drives. Just because comething is too big for you or too small for you is no reason to question the saneness of someones computer, storage or what have you.
Bill the TaxMan
syklee26 said:
FW800 would be a great idea for iPods. I'm almost to the point of standardizing on FW800 in my 17" PowerBook & my MDD PowerMac. I still have several FW400 drive around as I keep all of my drives. That means that its hard to have enough FW800 cases. Having my iPod work on USB2 only is a drag. I have all of those FW400 cables from my erd Gen iPod that are useless on my 5th Gen iPod. A change back to FW400 would to better for all. Just go out & see how many new Windows computers come with FW400 ports as standard.
One wonders that since Intel is the designer of USB2 if Apple had to agree to switch from FW400, an Apple tech, to USB, an Intel tech, in order to make the switch to Intel products. Others sayit was for just a little smaller size. Others say it was all about just a couple of more cents profit per unit. In any way having USB be the only interface for the full-sized iPod is a poor decision for mos Mac Users & with more newer Windows computers around, a poor decision for Windows Users.
Having a 120 GB FW800 would be great. You can never have too much storage. With that big of drive FW800 would be great.
When it comes to size some people probably still operate their Mac or Windows computer on less than 10 GB of total space. This is for the System, programs & all data stored. On the other hand some people probably have a GB or more of music. Then add pictures, movies, other data, a couple of hundred programs, Mac OS 10, Windows XP with a duplicate covering of programs, are being crimped with 4 750 GB hard drives. Just because comething is too big for you or too small for you is no reason to question the saneness of someones computer, storage or what have you.
Bill the TaxMan
On a semi-related note the company Archos has 160gb option on their 504 video player which according to cnet is also 1.8' hd. Hmmm maybe we might see those in the next macbook pro.
I actally see a different use for these drives.
If you'll take two 120GB 1.8" drives, and stick them in a Macbook Pro with a RAID performance configuration, you'll actually be getting a 240GB hard drive that is probably as fast as the 7200RPM 100GB drive that's currently in the Macbook Pro. I am only guessing that those 1.8" drives run at 4200RPM, but at a RAID performance configuration, they should feel much faster. Plus, from power consumption point of view, there shouldn't be any change dispite the fact that there are now two of them inside. that's cause being smaller, they should take less power to rotate.
Heck, if you really want to go crazy, they should have no problem sticking FOUR of these into a 17" MBP and by that achieve a wopping 480GB of storage in one single laptop. (Oh, I'm sorry, I ment "Notebook" lol).
If you'll take two 120GB 1.8" drives, and stick them in a Macbook Pro with a RAID performance configuration, you'll actually be getting a 240GB hard drive that is probably as fast as the 7200RPM 100GB drive that's currently in the Macbook Pro. I am only guessing that those 1.8" drives run at 4200RPM, but at a RAID performance configuration, they should feel much faster. Plus, from power consumption point of view, there shouldn't be any change dispite the fact that there are now two of them inside. that's cause being smaller, they should take less power to rotate.
Heck, if you really want to go crazy, they should have no problem sticking FOUR of these into a 17" MBP and by that achieve a wopping 480GB of storage in one single laptop. (Oh, I'm sorry, I ment "Notebook" lol).
I expect you mean RAID 0 i.e. striping two drives together.
That'll double the failure rate of the whole array - i.e. the laptop will last half as long before losing all data.
With 4 drives in a RAID 0 array, you get 1/4 of the life-span - if any one drive fails, all the data on the whole array is lost.
Not exactly what you expect from a high-end laptop....
That'll double the failure rate of the whole array - i.e. the laptop will last half as long before losing all data.
With 4 drives in a RAID 0 array, you get 1/4 of the life-span - if any one drive fails, all the data on the whole array is lost.
Not exactly what you expect from a high-end laptop....
I'm saviing up to buy/help buy my college laptop which I will make the purchase at the end of this school year. I hope I don't end up blowin a chunk of that money on a new iPod that is so cool I just have to have it.
