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New iPods Released (20GB and 40GB)
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I completely agree with NaveIntel. They should have a low cost model, they couldn't keep it on the shelves. From what I've heard Apple makes more than 50% mark up on iPods (though they might not on the $199 10 GB), it's not like they couldn't afford to do it while accelerating market share. Sadly this is Apple/Jobs, all mark-up all the time, often at the explense (pardon the pun) of gaining market share.
I just bought a 15GB from the Aspen Grove store two weeks ago
sniff, sniff. I just bought a 15GB from the Aspen Grove CO store two weeks ago. I almost bought the bigger one, but it was a bit too much for me. I'm glad the upgrade was capacity only!
sniff, sniff. I just bought a 15GB from the Aspen Grove CO store two weeks ago. I almost bought the bigger one, but it was a bit too much for me. I'm glad the upgrade was capacity only!
Re: I just bought a 15GB from the Aspen Grove store two weeks ago
I'll second that - I got my 15 last sunday.
I'll second that - I got my 15 last sunday.
Re: Re: Luck of the update....
Me too. I had been waiting to buy a PB for over 3 months and finally had to jump in regardless of the updates. Apple is still showing a shipping date of NLT 9/18/03 on my PB 12" 60/640/AE... I may still get lucky but to be honest, I will be happy with what ever I get.
The 12" has come down $200 since release and the $200 education discount is awesome.
Me too. I had been waiting to buy a PB for over 3 months and finally had to jump in regardless of the updates. Apple is still showing a shipping date of NLT 9/18/03 on my PB 12" 60/640/AE... I may still get lucky but to be honest, I will be happy with what ever I get.
The 12" has come down $200 since release and the $200 education discount is awesome.
i'm going to try to do my best to not swear or curse out apple on here, (i get yelled at for that enough in #macrumors but this is freaking ridiculous. I just recently bought a 30 gig, that i think i paid $499 for, now an extra 10 gig for the same price? that settles it, im going to wait a week after everyone gets their dual g5's and see them magically have dual 10ghz g5's for about $1000 less.
Cool. Nice to see that both the iMac and iPods were updated...but why an update with the iPods so soon? But on a very good note, Apple is selling iPods quite cheaply under their special deals section (at leas the U.S. site). $169 for an iPod? I'm now VERY tempted to get one.
actually, i just bought this thing at best buy, and got the extended service plan (homer: extended service plan how can I lose?) i'm going to wait till they get rid of all 30gigs, and whip this one at a wall, hrm, gotta read more into their warranty thing to see the best way to go about this. I know they have a really loose warranty on those things, so i wonder if that'll work., anyone know?
Hmm, now what to do when I get my new 15' (whenever that is). I'll need an enormous hard drive if the first 40 gigs are already reserved for the ipod I get with it. What do you think the hard drive on the new pb's will be? same 60 just doesn't seem like enough anymore. Can they cram any more into it?
Re: Re: no audio in.......
Ummm. You might still need a microphone. I don't see one on my iPod.
The new size is pretty cool, though, esp. now that you can use Backup with the iPod. An MP3 player AND backup drive. Wonder when they'll add color and .jpg support so we can show pictures? Grandparents love that stuff.
Originally posted by backspinner
Cheer up
Ummm. You might still need a microphone. I don't see one on my iPod.
The new size is pretty cool, though, esp. now that you can use Backup with the iPod. An MP3 player AND backup drive. Wonder when they'll add color and .jpg support so we can show pictures? Grandparents love that stuff.
re...is the 40 gb still thicker
Why don't you go to the Apple Store and check? Yes, it is still a tiny bit bigger.
~oZ
Why don't you go to the Apple Store and check? Yes, it is still a tiny bit bigger.
~oZ
my mother got a gamecube from bestbuy and the extended warranty for my bro - when he wanted a different color she took it back; when he broke the controller she took it back; and when the warranty was about to expire she took it back.
im sure the people at bestbuy now hate my mother... maybe i should get her to call apple and trade in my new 15g iPod for the 20g.
40GB Ipod !!!
10,000 songs!!!
Chances are anyone with enough music to fill a 40GB Ipod has not paid $10,000+, and has illegally downloaded the good majority of them. Correct?
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
Maybe Apple is inadvertantly encouraging piracy?
10,000 songs!!!
Chances are anyone with enough music to fill a 40GB Ipod has not paid $10,000+, and has illegally downloaded the good majority of them. Correct?
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
Maybe Apple is inadvertantly encouraging piracy?
i just got my 15Gb delivered today.Not very happy now.New pricing in Ireland too..
I paid: 15Gb = 461.01
Now: 20Gb = 415.03.
Should i try and send it back;seeing as i had to wait 2 weeks to get it shipped in the first place.
I paid: 15Gb = 461.01
Now: 20Gb = 415.03.
Should i try and send it back;seeing as i had to wait 2 weeks to get it shipped in the first place.
Originally posted by iRiKliAN
Maybe Apple is inadvertantly encouraging piracy?
Maybe gun manufactures are inadvertently encouraging murder.
Even on 128Kb encoding, if I could be bothered, my CD's would fill a 40GB iPod a few times. Luckily I can't be bothered.
AppleMatt
advancing technology is a fact of life... so let's stick to instead of .
no matter when things are upgraded, someone will be screwed with the timing. sorry for those who bought "old" ones just a while ago, but it still doesn't take anything away from your own machine...
enjoy.
instead of .no matter when things are upgraded, someone will be screwed with the timing. sorry for those who bought "old" ones just a while ago, but it still doesn't take anything away from your own machine...
enjoy.
"40GB Ipod !!!
10,000 songs!!!
Chances are anyone with enough music to fill a 40GB Ipod has not paid $10,000+, and has illegally downloaded the good majority of them. Correct?
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
Maybe Apple is inadvertantly encouraging piracy? "
I've got an original 10 gig and have 48 gigs of mp3/aac's (encoded at 128 kbps) on my Blueberry iMac's HD - I've just got to the letter R in ripping my CD's. I do have a couple of albums that I've downloaded but 99% of my mp3's are ripped from my own CD's. I'll think about upgrading my 10 gig when the iPod's are 80 gig+ (probably this time next year) - nice to see them almost getting there.
10,000 songs!!!
Chances are anyone with enough music to fill a 40GB Ipod has not paid $10,000+, and has illegally downloaded the good majority of them. Correct?
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
Maybe Apple is inadvertantly encouraging piracy? "
I've got an original 10 gig and have 48 gigs of mp3/aac's (encoded at 128 kbps) on my Blueberry iMac's HD - I've just got to the letter R in ripping my CD's. I do have a couple of albums that I've downloaded but 99% of my mp3's are ripped from my own CD's. I'll think about upgrading my 10 gig when the iPod's are 80 gig+ (probably this time next year) - nice to see them almost getting there.
The arts teacher just bought a new 10 gb iPod and a Powermac through the phone, through the education pricing. She hasn't received anything...but the price for the 10gb dropped...will it drop for her, even though she placed the order before the price dropped?
Originally posted by iRiKliAN
Chances are anyone with enough music to fill a 40GB Ipod has not paid $10,000+, and has illegally downloaded the good majority of them. Correct?
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
Not entirely true. I've been collecting music for about 20 years, have three rooms in my apartment devoted to my vinyl collection and have about 2/3 of that collection converted to mp3/AAC. That's not even counting the music I've ripped from my CD collection and promotional material I recieve at the radio station.
My mp3 library is about 109gigs of my 120GB music drive. Sadly I've probably spent much more than $10,000 on the music I've purchased in my life. Oh, the G5's I could buy with my music collection being a figment of my imagination.
Maybe not. I was giving the guy in the cube next to me a hard time about carrying notebooks full of CDs in each day. I told him to just get an iPod or something like it. He then told me that he had about 1200 CDs (my ~360 took up about 18gig so he'd probably need about 60gig). Now I give him a hard time that he could have bought a new car, funded his kid's college fund, etc. instead of buying 1200 CDs. He might be able to fit it on one of the bigger creative labs, but he wouldn't have any room to grow. He wants to go that way eventually but he's looking for at least 80gig before he even thinks about it.
Additionally the extra capacity might not be about music, it makes a nice small portable drive. At 40gig you've got room for a little over 3 hours of DV video, lots of room for textures, and large 3D files, etc, whatever you want to tote around.
Originally posted by iRiKliAN
40GB Ipod !!!
So it would be safe to assume the RIAA would be on there arse?
I gotta say you're probably right, the RIAA WILL be a pain in the arse, it's just what they do. but i too can easily fill the 40gigs up by ripping my cds, so not necessarily piracy, but i think that they will be scanning the p2p networks even more now, because ipods are still getting more and more common,