60GB iPod Product Line Changes?

[Snowy_River]

Earth to freak! USB 2.0=480mbps. FireWire400=400mbps. Why would you wanna use FireWire? Ok, if you buy a PowerMac G5, and the new iPod concidentally supports FireWire800 (800mbps), it would be faster, but I doubt Apple would make the new iPod compatible for only three computers in the world (PB 15 and 17" and PowerMac)

Just to offer a correction, USB2 can support higher burst speeds, but in sustained data transfers (i.e. big movie files) FireWire still outperforms it. Why do you think that all the camcorders are still FireWire, not USB2?

Even if you read the article someone else referenced, they comment that the Windows implementation of USB2 is much better than the Mac implementation, but if you look at the numbers they say they got on their Windows machine, they're still worse than the numbers provided by FireWire400, even on the slowest machine.

 

[BWalen]

My 4th gen 40gb iPod conveniently gave me the exclamation-mark/file folder screen today, and after following apple's on-line repair instructions, it appears my little iPod is dead...So it looks like it's time to cash in on my apple warranty and get it replaced, then ebay the new one it just in time some random unsuspecting person so that i can purchase whatever this new iPod is at a decent price

 

[BoyBach]

I'm dreading the rumoured 1st April event. My 4th Gen iPod is working fine but if Apple release a video iPod with decent content available in the UK I will find it very hard to resist

 

[jrussell6]

i love apple but i don't get this direction

apple has done some incredible things, the first ipod were totally on point. but i don't understand what use all of you have for a 2/3/4 inch video player,, like, what the heck am i gonna do with that. It needs more connectivity, get one thing right before you move to the next,, i'ld just be happy with an 60/80 gig with a digital out,, ipod no video that had a 25 hour batt life. actually i'ld be happy with just the digital out. i'm sorry but bells and whistles do not getting me jumping about... and why doesn't it make a phone call yet... people have been talking about that forever...

 

[janstett]

The good thing about used ipods is they are still as functional today as they were then. I'd love to snatch up a 3 or 4G ipod. Unlike a computer, where it just starts to age, even when working perfectly, it just can't stay up to the current standard.

<cough> battery

In all seriousness, mine find new life as they age.

My first, 30GB 3G (god it looks so ancient now) could never hold my main collection and involved serious downsampling and amputation to fit. Now it stores my classical/jazz music.

My second, a 4G photo, has my main collection but it's stuffed to the gills and there is no more room at the inn without kicking somebody out.

Thus justifying my 3rd, a nano that contains my most recently aquired music.

Then I got my 4th, a 5G black video iPod which has my podcasts, DVD rips, and iPhoto pictures.

So that's why I carry 4 iPods in my briefcase (I think I'm sick)

 

[janstett]

apple has done some incredible things, the first ipod were totally on point. but i don't understand what use all of you have for a 2/3/4 inch video player,, like, what the heck am i gonna do with that.

Well, here's how I've used mine.

First, I loved the album art, nice touch. It's much more pleasant to read the color screen with the aliased fonts than the old b&w display.

Sometimes I put my video iPod on my desk while I'm working and play a video. I have ripped all my music video DVDs so I can listen to/watch the videos, it's MTV to go. I have DVD rips galore, like the entire run of Futurama, I just watch/listen in the background as I work. In the corner of my eye I can catch the video, and it's not so large or obnoxious as to make it look like I'm goofing off watching a video.

One unexpected need the video iPod has filled is, it has quashed my "need" for a DVD player in my cars. My iPods are on goosenecks in the car at easily-reached positions near the radio. I do have a 7" flat DVD player that fits on the same goosneck. Now if I need to take a video on the road, I rip it to the iPod instead of taking the DVD player. Now granted while driving I will not distract myself by looking at the screen, but I can listen to my favorite material and catch a glimpse at traffic lights.

For this reason, the widescreen video iPod has me interested.

And, of course, I have my pictures with me all the time if someone wants to see a picture.

Now, having said all this, I would still like to see a bigger audio-centric iPod too. 60GB is not big enough for me as I have to cut out parts of my collection to fit it and I can't add new material without losing something first. Also I would like to experiment with lossless and I need more space to do so.

 

[nemaslov]

Yeah more storage!!!

I would LOVE more storgae. I have 140GB of music loaded at home and would LOVE to take much more with me than my 60GB iPod holds. An 80GB or even 120 (2x 60 drives) would be fine by me!!! Don't care at all about video.

 

[macdong]

I would LOVE more storgae. I have 140GB of music loaded at home and would LOVE to take much more with me than my 60GB iPod holds. An 80GB or even 120 (2x 60 drives) would be fine by me!!! Don't care at all about video.

perhaps you should try one of those external firewire hard drives?
i wouldn't not want to carrt 2 60GB hard drives with me.

 

[celebrian23]

I think that once you get into 80+ GB you get more into a niche ipod. The average person has nowhere near 140GB of music. I don't think we'll be seeing a 100GB for quite a while.

 

[bloodycape]

As I have stated there is a avery few players with 100gig and one of them being a 4in video player and a 7in model. The 4in model at one point could be had for like 550 after rebates which is a good deal. and rumor has it the hd can be upgraded to like 120gigs after ghosting the main drive .If apple can pull that much off that be a pretty good seller.

 

[Ohmeohmom]

http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2006/03/21/afx2611825.html

I wonder if this is for the new Ipod

 

[student_trap]

what would be nice is an upgrade to 40 gigs from the current 30 at the same form-factor, that would give me a little space to grow! Don't care much for video, especially when it zaps battery life.

I find it interesting that when the ipod came out, it did simplicity...you had music, and it worked, it was slick, and it was fast with no lagging menu's etc. Other Mp3 player makers would shout about how their player had so many bells and whistles (which nobody really cared for), but apple stuck to its simplicity idea. Now it seems that apple is offering all bells and whistles, and all I (and it seems many other people) want is a dam good music player!

 

[Proud Liberal]

As I have stated there is a avery few players with 100gig and one of them being a 4in video player and a 7in model. The 4in model at one point could be had for like 550 after rebates which is a good deal. and rumor has it the hd can be upgraded to like 120gigs after ghosting the main drive .If apple can pull that much off that be a pretty good seller.

I believe you are referring the Archos players & they don't use a 1.8" HDD like the iPod - they are using the 2.5" HDD, thus the bigger form factor size. As far as I know, Toshiba's (Apple's HDD supplier) largest capacity 1.8" HDD is 80GB, and from past reports Apple bought a large supply of these drives. Hopefully we'll be seeing a mid-cycle upgrade to the 5G iPod to include these 80GB drives.

 

[bloodycape]

I believe you are referring the Archos players & they don't use a 1.8" HDD like the iPod - they are using the 2.5" HDD, thus the bigger form factor size. As far as I know, Toshiba's (Apple's HDD supplier) largest capacity 1.8" HDD is 80GB, and from past reports Apple bought a large supply of these drives. Hopefully we'll be seeing a mid-cycle upgrade to the 5G iPod to include these 80GB drives.

Yeah it is the archos . I a serch says yes they are using 2.5hdd hardrive. I still think apple can get 100gigs in the ipod. But with that much gigs 80 or 100gigs apple needs to give some good built in feature set like voice recorder and if it is a video player a built in video recorder.

 

[Proud Liberal]

Yeah it is the archos . I a serch says yes they are using 2.5hdd hardrive. I still think apple can get 100gigs in the ipod. But with that much gigs 80 or 100gigs apple needs to give some good built in feature set like voice recorder and if it is a video player a built in video recorder.

Again, if there aren't any companies making a 1.8" 100GB HDD, then there is no way Apple can put one in an iPod. The only option would be to use the 2.5" HDD and that would make the size of the iPod significantly larger than it currently is.

 

[ipod0324]

April 1

when do you think Apple will send out those inviations? Should be soon for an event around April1.

 

[istonedu321]

Im still rockin the 3g ipod, and it works just as well as the day i bought it.just wish i had gone witha bigger harddrive. 20 gigs just doesnt suffice.

That's why if you buy something as soon as it comes out, you'll have the longest time of being the coolest kid on the block!

If you're a more practical person than trendsetter, however, if you buy something for a specific purpose, it will still do it even if newer, better products replace it.

I know peoples with minis who are perfectly happy playing their music with them and have no intention of buying a new one just yet, even if the new model had holographic 10' screens with 5.1 surround sound.

(I would though! iPod AV "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" edition, here we come.)

 

[peharri]

Im still rockin the 3g ipod, and it works just as well as the day i bought it.just wish i had gone witha bigger harddrive. 20 gigs just doesnt suffice.

I still love my 2G iPod. (There are multiple definitions of 2G so to clarify: 10Gb but similar to old "5Gb" style with mechanical wheel changed to touch wheel.) I can see myself upgrading to a nano when a version comes out with at least 8Gb, but until then...

I don't think they will, but if Apple does come out with a mobile phone/iPod combination, then again I'll want it to have enough capacity to replace this before I stop carrying it around. I want at least 8Gb, if not more, of disk space. In the long term, it'll be interesting to see what happens with the kinds of memory cards, such as Transflash, you can get in regular cellphones in general. My V635 supports BT, Transflash, and Java. In theory, if Transflash cards ever had enough capacity, then with a decent MP3 player (and that's a big "with") and some BT headphones, it might work out as a good replacement. But that's a while off.

 

[~Shard~]

Im still rockin the 3g ipod, and it works just as well as the day i bought it.just wish i had gone witha bigger harddrive. 20 gigs just doesnt suffice.

I have hundreds of GBs of music, however I don't need it all with me where ever I go, so my 20 GB 3G iPod is quite sufficient. To each their own though.

 

[trogdor!]

I like how they use the term "at risk". I have a feeling it is just an upgrade to an 80gig, but maybe they could surprise us all.

 

[aswitcher]

A 32GB Static Memory Video iPod would offer amazing battery life (I guess) thin form factor - maybe in a few years when prices drop...

 

[zack.williams]

if the new ipods and macbooks do come out in the next week, what a great anniversary that'll be!

 

[MLM]

iPod with front row?

Maybe an iPod with front row-like software is on its way...

 

[mongoos150]

Maybe an iPod with front row-like software is on its way...

?! The iPod IS frontrow - plays videos, music, etc... Are you talking about the graphical interface? It would be annoying on a small iPod and completely unneccessary (not to mention a battery hog for those hardware graphic requirements.

 

[Peace]

iPod Video

This might just be fantasy but I receive a list of seminars from Apple and just got another..

EVERY seminar that's going on at a retail Apple store says :

Have an iPod Video, but no idea how to use the video capabilities? Thinking of purchasing an iPod Video? If you want to go mobile with your favorite video, this free seminar is for you!

Learn about...

...the technology behind the iPod Video
...types of video that can be used on your iPod
...putting your own iMovies, web video, or DVDs onto your iPod
...purchasing shows, movies, and music videos from iTunes and getting them onto your iPod

We will cover the settings, software, and techniques needed to to format your favorite videos...to go!


They keep referring to the "iPod Video" and putting DVD's on it..

All of these seminars are on April 3rd..