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60GB iPod Product Line Changes?

this is really odd and interesting news. Firstly my 3rd gen recently broke and i have been saving for the 5 gen 60 gb ipod as i have lots of music and like the idea of putting video on it and pictures.

i have almost saved for the new iPod so will it be wise to wait til after april 1 as that is only 2 weeks away!!!!

suggestions????
 
ipodrocker said:
this is really odd and interesting news. Firstly my 3rd gen recently broke and i have been saving for the 5 gen 60 gb ipod as i have lots of music and like the idea of putting video on it and pictures.

i have almost saved for the new iPod so will it be wise to wait til after april 1 as that is only 2 weeks away!!!!

suggestions????
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Sure...I'll offer this suggestion...why limit yourself to just 15,000 songs ...take your money, buy a guitar, take lessons...play your own music wherever you go. You have more potential for # of songs than the ipod invisa.

What??? ...you asked for suggestions.
 
ncook06 said:
They probably know how, but they won't because it keeps people buying their cases.
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I have had my black 5G iPod in the case exclusively for all but the very first week, when it did get some minor scratches in the chrome on the back.

Don't ask me how, but somehow I got a blemish on the screen that will not buff out. I have NEVER taken it out of the case since the first week. How the heck did it get scratched? I am convinced Apple has a team of Delta Force Scratch Gnomes that visits every iPod in the night.
 
sushi said:
Yes.

Sustained transfer speeds are much different. Firewire is much faster over time.

This is a hardware issue and how USB is supported/implemented.
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Also, if I'm not mistaken, FireWire is "smarter" like SCSI as far as drive control being isolated to the device, whereas USB is dependent on the host CPU for processing. Ever tried to copy large amounts of data between two USB drives? It slows to a crawl and eats CPU.
 
True, true. USB sucks for large transfers. I once had to copy some GB from one USB drive to another, and my (sorry) XP mashine would not even update the cursor position when I move the mouse. I had to wait 2 hours for the computer to respond again... all that to acknoledge that windows was not able to copy all files. Why is there an OK button on error reports anyway? It's not that i think it's ok when clicking that button on "(insert OS name here) caused a fatal error" button. Would't "close" be a smarter label?

My guess is that the 30GB iPod 5G will stay for a while (maybe going to 40GB) and a new video iPod will be shown around April 1.

I for one just got a 512 shuffle on eBay cuz my USB dongle broke today. First iPod i own and no screen to be scratched. :D
"So long, suckers" (C.M. Burns). Have fun with your touchscreens :p
 
MacQuest said:
Think about 500MB [iPod res], 1GB [720p DVD], or maybe even 2GB [1080p HD] movie files.

The iPod is not just 4MB music files and may not be about low res movie files much longer.
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i think your estimates for the sizes of those movie files is a bit off...
a standard definition, 640x480p video image has 4 times as many pixels as does the ipod res videos. and just looking at the file sizes of the 1080p movie trailers on the quicktime site, the superman trailer is 118MB for about a minute and a half, if you do the math for a 2 hour movie you're looking at a 9GB movie file.

despite the daunting increase in file sizes, apple needs to offer higher res video before i will even consider buying anything from them.
 
iPods at Costco

iPods are popping up at Costco in SF Bay Area, along with discontinued iMacs and Mac Minis...
Included was the 60GB video iPod. Have not seen that before. Maybe a sign of dumping excess stock.
 
schofield said:
iPods are popping up at Costco in SF Bay Area, along with discontinued iMacs and Mac Minis...
Included was the 60GB video iPod. Have not seen that before. Maybe a sign of dumping excess stock.
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Could very well be - Costco often sells excess stock form companies, in one form or another. Take may of their TVS, for instance - many of those suppliers (Akai, etc.) use panels which were rejected from the quality manufacturers like Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba, hence why they are cheaper sets. In this case, since Apple is indeed planning on doing something with the 60 GB model, this would make sense as well, i terms of getting rid of excess stock.
 
Hmm.. why firewire? firewire max rate of just 400mb/s as opposed to usb2.0's 480. something i'm missing?
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I for one don't have USB 2.0 on my mirror door Powermac G4. If they don't offer firewire, I probably won't buy a new ipod, because it would mean waiting for an hour or so transfering a gig of music over. No thanks.
 
Exshellent newsh. I just sold my 5G 60GB in preparation.

Prepare to witness the power of this fully operational credit card Mr Jobs.

Oh wait, I've played straight into his hands, dang! :p
 
adamcz said:
I for one don't have USB 2.0 on my mirror door Powermac G4. If they don't offer firewire, I probably won't buy a new ipod, because it would mean waiting for an hour or so transfering a gig of music over. No thanks.
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You could always just buy a USB 2.0 card for, like $30. That's what I did for my Quicksilver G4.
 
Wow. I can't believe apple has some of you guys dreaming of the day they will allow you to shell out $400-$500 for something to replace what you just bought in October. Business students should study the Apple model.
 
revjay said:
Sure...I'll offer this suggestion...why limit yourself to just 15,000 songs ...take your money, buy a guitar, take lessons...play your own music wherever you go. You have more potential for # of songs than the ipod invisa.

What??? ...you asked for suggestions.
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there are good suggestions and then there's this :rolleyes:
 
WoOT!
 

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zap2 said:
yankeefan24 said:
the fact that the 30 GB isn't on that list means something…

i think we might only see an 80 GB upgrade. But a full screen would be awesome! we only have 60 days to wait and see.
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i'd say less, Apple birthday is less then 3 weeks away!
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yes and also the 60gig ipod was put on the at risk list around feb 15th, not like a week ago so the update will be out b4 april 15th...perfect timing for an april fools day joke of an update...;) :) :D
 
~Shard~ said:
I have over 250 GB of MP3s and 400 GB of movies. That being said, yes, I don't need all of them on my iPod at the same time... :p ;) :cool:
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at max burst speed of usb2.0, that would take 150 days to transfer to an ipod (assuming that the songs and and videos are in iPod format. if not, it will be longer because conversion takes 4ever!!!)
 
hugeipod said:
at max burst speed of usb2.0, that would take 150 days to transfer to an ipod (assuming that the songs and and videos are in iPod format. if not, it will be longer because conversion takes 4ever!!!)
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Thanks for that calculation - scary! :eek: :cool:
 
mackeeper said:
WoOT!
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wow. it looks so real! :eek:

Serously, I'd like a little keyboard (touch keyborad) so I can search for songs quickly. That would be even more ergonomic than the click(touch)wheel.
 
I'd be unlikely to get a new iPod for the next couple of years, unless my current one broke. When I do though, I'd want it to have as many extra features as is possible, even if they ended up redundant.

I would however like to see it evolve in more than just a media player, something that will be like a PDA in it's features. The more they add, the closer it becomes to a handheld Mac and the more people will use it, like it and switch.
 
gauriemma said:
You could always just buy a USB 2.0 card for, like $30. That's what I did for my Quicksilver G4.
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Yes, and much to my surpize, u don't need a Mac labelled one. I plugged in a generic $10 one in my Slowsilver :rolleyes: G4 and it has worked fine since 10.3 came along. I use it for the Coolpix scanner that requires USB2.
 
Courtnie said:
I could buy an iPod now - keep it in the box for two weeks and return it if something better comes out!
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not to bust your hump, but...
man, you need to get your logic straight. :)
 
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