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New iPod Next Week?
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odd-eyo said:BTW - Ima Nihon dessu ka?
I will buy the sake / beeru ( sheesh even obento) if a PB power comes about in days.
kirin ichi ban shibori kuro nama daisuki desu!
odd-eyo said:many of us make a living with a PM or PB .... ` could not care about iPod and holly-rocks...
up-grade(s)!?
No kidding. I'm dying out here waiting to upgrade to a dual-core, dual-proc G5 PM. My dual G4 1ghz machine is 5 years old and still hanging in there. It's just not enough anymore for the massive image files and extensive magazine files I'm working on these days.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's not another iPod update and, rather, something more substantial that some of us pro-mac users can sink our teeth into. By pro-mac, I mean people that rely on Apple computers to make a living.
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Stella said:
Yep. There will be no "ooohs and ahhhs" if it goes down likes this. Not to mention all the disappointment due to no video iPod. Boring.
dernhelm said:
Blessed are the Believers.
If you don't believe in the all mighty Apple, then you don't deserve to drink from the trough of coolness and innovation.
I still think the 'one more thing' is what was going to be announced at MWP but pulled at the last minute due to production problems. Apple have been releasing the new announcement products the same day/week as the announcement (as opposed to some announcement a few years back when everything was pushed back or delayed) and if production wasn't ramped up then no announcement at MWP.
The day after the 'nano was announced I saw multiple boxes of 'nanos at the Shibuya Apple Store in Tokyo, and as people were ripping them off the shelves (myself included) they were magically being replaced....I hope the same for whatever we have a comin' next week.
This new Powerbook, Powerbook, POWERBOOK.. where can I ORDER it??? Hurry you blasted calendar - HURRY!
One more thing......
Please correct me if i am wrong here (as if you wouldn't!) but those curtains could also refer to a stage? think Opera, musicals, .......BANDS..........................................Asteroid!?
they have been good at keeping things on the quiet recently, it was the "worlds first firewire guitar" on macbytes that sparked this little brainwave into existance.
Please correct me if i am wrong here (as if you wouldn't!) but those curtains could also refer to a stage? think Opera, musicals, .......BANDS..........................................Asteroid!?
they have been good at keeping things on the quiet recently, it was the "worlds first firewire guitar" on macbytes that sparked this little brainwave into existance.
me
(The 90GB is the VBR version of the 400 GB or so of lossless rips on the PC.)
5 GB of photos is one week's worth when I'm on holiday... (5MP RAW).
I keep about 90 GB on my laptop - sometimes to listen to (Altec XT1 speakers in the hotel, for example), but usually to download to the Nano Plus for on-the-go.toughboy said:
(The 90GB is the VBR version of the 400 GB or so of lossless rips on the PC.)
5 GB of photos is one week's worth when I'm on holiday... (5MP RAW).
Beatles Library
This just doesn't make sense. Why hold a big wing ding for a cosmetic update to the iPod and minor Powermac and Powerbook updates? Either ThinkSecret is wrong and Jobs is feeding his mole misinformation (because they now know who he/she is), or something else is going to happen. My bet is a exclusive deal with the Beatles library and they are going to have a little concert at the theator.
This just doesn't make sense. Why hold a big wing ding for a cosmetic update to the iPod and minor Powermac and Powerbook updates? Either ThinkSecret is wrong and Jobs is feeding his mole misinformation (because they now know who he/she is), or something else is going to happen. My bet is a exclusive deal with the Beatles library and they are going to have a little concert at the theator.
WRXHokie said:
Even Steve Jobs has been a bit non-commital about video iPods of late though.
I think the last quote I heard was along the lines of "No one has been successful with that yet."
Maybe an iPod that just happens to play video would be a good place to start though.
Mitch1984 said:LOL, they should make T-Shirts saying "I Believe" with a picture of a Video iPod instead of an alien!
Thanks!
A quick question to all those saying an iPod AV is on the way....
Will you be able to rip your own DVDs to this little poddy-kun?
If not, will you be able to download content from iTMS or a video incarnation of the iTMS (called the iTunes Movie Store or iTMS for short ooh, wait...huh...
)?If you cannot rip then the device will be less worthwhile outside any country without iTMS movies. Anyone could put there music on an iPod, no iTMS necessary.
Look at the sh*t that is going on now with the record industry and the iTMS pricing etc, can you imagine a movie store? DVD are region coded, some movies are months apart in release times between USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. How in the world will a iTMS manage all this...and I would be pissed if my US MR-budies could download movies and I couldn't. Sure we didn't have an iTMS in Japan for quite a while, but I could still get a CD and put it on my iPod, what about movies...
I hope my thoughts are coming through clearly, I have had more than a few beers and am rather hapy right now...not quite as jober as a sudge
Give it up, it's going to be a vPod. Nobody in Apple would have allowed mere PowerBook upgrades in this way. Look at the press it has received in every major news source. Apple knew they would generate so many articles on CNN.com or in the New York times with a special ceremony, and to dissappoint predictions of vPods and possible iTMediaS would be stock market suicide.
As for the argument as to how we fill our iPods:
1) Macrumors is hardly a representative sample of the iPod population. We tend to be huge tech geeks that definitely differ from many people (in a good way...) I personally would also enjoy an 80gig iPod, though only 40gigs would be music. Aside from using it as a backup harddrive, I don't mind paying a little extra to have free space on a drive for any particular reason. However, I am somebody with almost a terabyte of storage hooked up to his iMac, so I would suggest I am not the average user
2) I teach young teenagers from the post-napster age that believe 1000 songs is a lot. When they hear i have seven times that amount, they cannot comprehend the fact that there are that many songs that even exist. However, when these same kids heard a new iPod may be coming out, they got incredibly excited. People will buy vPods because they are new and neat, even though I probably won't. It's a guaruntee.
3) Many of us own lots of devices. It will be decades before technology buids one that suits all of my needs. I have a shuffle for lifting/running, currently my shuffle for my commute, and my dead-battery 20gig 2G lives in my classroom with a set of crappy speakers. I would love to have a new, large iPod for my commute. Heck, I might even decide I would want to watch last night's law and order on the way to work, who knows....The point is, to keep marketshare, Apple must appease users at every end. 80 gigs is not out of the question, and offering with a 40gig twin hardly reduces profit margins and manufacturing costs, while catching the eye of many of us nerds on Macrumors.
eh, class in 3 minutes
As for the argument as to how we fill our iPods:
1) Macrumors is hardly a representative sample of the iPod population. We tend to be huge tech geeks that definitely differ from many people (in a good way...) I personally would also enjoy an 80gig iPod, though only 40gigs would be music. Aside from using it as a backup harddrive, I don't mind paying a little extra to have free space on a drive for any particular reason. However, I am somebody with almost a terabyte of storage hooked up to his iMac, so I would suggest I am not the average user
2) I teach young teenagers from the post-napster age that believe 1000 songs is a lot. When they hear i have seven times that amount, they cannot comprehend the fact that there are that many songs that even exist. However, when these same kids heard a new iPod may be coming out, they got incredibly excited. People will buy vPods because they are new and neat, even though I probably won't. It's a guaruntee.
3) Many of us own lots of devices. It will be decades before technology buids one that suits all of my needs. I have a shuffle for lifting/running, currently my shuffle for my commute, and my dead-battery 20gig 2G lives in my classroom with a set of crappy speakers. I would love to have a new, large iPod for my commute. Heck, I might even decide I would want to watch last night's law and order on the way to work, who knows....The point is, to keep marketshare, Apple must appease users at every end. 80 gigs is not out of the question, and offering with a 40gig twin hardly reduces profit margins and manufacturing costs, while catching the eye of many of us nerds on Macrumors.
eh, class in 3 minutes
I think this rumor is right on. No video ipod, but the ipod will be changed significantly. They will use those microdrives at 40gb and 80gb they will be a little thinner and smaller. I am hoping the powerbook updates will be bigger than what is expected, but who knows. Something big has to happen otherwise why not just update them via the website? Should be interesting.
rxse7en said:
Wow, I could have written this myself. We even have the same computer! My fingers are crossed and my credit card is on standby too, man.
Extremes are fun but seldom happen
I'll make a prediction combining the latest TS and AI reports into one compromise scenario:
* "One More Thing" press event will focus on a new home theater-related (wireless?) device, AND 5th gen. iPods--but not video-centric iPods. (Maybe iPods that can play video files as another "little extra"--but still music-centric.)
* New PowerMacs and PowerBooks on the same day or at least soon, but not the main function of the press event. No Intel Macs yet.
I'll make a prediction combining the latest TS and AI reports into one compromise scenario:
* "One More Thing" press event will focus on a new home theater-related (wireless?) device, AND 5th gen. iPods--but not video-centric iPods. (Maybe iPods that can play video files as another "little extra"--but still music-centric.)
* New PowerMacs and PowerBooks on the same day or at least soon, but not the main function of the press event. No Intel Macs yet.
Since there are conflicting reports someone is obviously wrong with these rumors. I've read every one of these posts, taken every clue, source and historical reference into consideration. That said, Tuesday-PM and PB updates. Wednesday ipod video. Take that to the bank. All is happy. Nuf said! Stop the madness!! If I am wrong I will change my screen name to "I have no idea what the hell i'm talking about so don't pay any attention to me freeny" or "IHNIWTHITASDPAATMF" for short.
of course someone will have to hold me to that.
of course someone will have to hold me to that.
lifeboy001 said:
Although i tend to agree that this annoucement will be a new product, it wont be a video ipod. The idea is sound and eventually one will be released, but the software for putting DVDs on a portable device isnt there yet. Not to mention Steve Jobs has been against the idea since the beginning. There will eventually be a video ipod, but not next week.
the software is already here. Have you seen a PSP? I have one and love it. I put all kinds of video on it, including full movies. Its only drawback is its capicity to hold just 1gig of data.WRXHokie said: