Someday the iPod Classic will be as thin as the iPod Touch, once high capacity flash memory goes mainstream...
That, my friend, IS the end of the Classic
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New Toshiba Hard Drives Could Boost iPod Classic to 220 GB
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That, my friend, IS the end of the Classic
Hybrid makes sense: Put the apps and recently used stuff on flash, put the archive (photos, music, videos) on the hard drive. If you just casually use the apps, the hard drive wouldn't even need to power up. Just have the first few seconds of every video or audio file and thumbnails of pictures cached on the flash storage so you don't feel like you have to wait for the hard drive to spin up.
I think its about time to upgrade the ipod classic. The screen on those things are tiny, my uncle has one, and I don't understand how anyone could possibly watch movies on that.. Apple needs to make a bigger screen size on the classics, like what the Zune MP3 players have.. (3.2inch)..
PS: I do agree that the ipod classic is pretty much dead.. But i'm sure there are still people who have a large media library, and the ipod touch will not suffice..
So yeah Apple needs to make updates, or scrap it..
PS: I do agree that the ipod classic is pretty much dead
.. But i'm sure there are still people who have a large media library, and the ipod touch will not suffice..So yeah Apple needs to make updates, or scrap it..
iPod Touch will be at least 128Gb, maybe 256Gb next Fall ... granted it might not be more than 160Gb, I GUESS their might be some room for a device like this, but I don't see Apple reverting to the old platform that they seem to have discontinued quietly.
iPod Hybrid
Very cool, I would've loved this back in the day but nowadays people expect iOS... they need to come up with an iPod Hybrid... an 8GB iPod Touch for app/data storage with a 220GB media hard drive. It may not be the smallest device as the Touch's footprint is bigger than the Classic and for obvious reasons the Classic is thicker than the Touch, but I'd pay the price of a 64GB iPod Touch for such device.
Very cool, I would've loved this back in the day but nowadays people expect iOS... they need to come up with an iPod Hybrid... an 8GB iPod Touch for app/data storage with a 220GB media hard drive. It may not be the smallest device as the Touch's footprint is bigger than the Classic and for obvious reasons the Classic is thicker than the Touch, but I'd pay the price of a 64GB iPod Touch for such device.
In addition to offering a prospective spec bump to the iPod this also offers some other interesting possibilities. If one were to have a MacBookPro with a SSD as well as dual hard drives capable of RAID modes, this would bring very high I/O to the form factor many folks now use as their primary desktop computer.
Add Light Peak and LTE and you have some serious cloud and local compute horsepower.
Rocketman
Add Light Peak and LTE and you have some serious cloud and local compute horsepower.
Rocketman
Toshiba, Samsung, and the other OEMs tend to make flash blocks and chips in multiples of 8, not 2. But they don't have to. Also note that marketing numbers do not always have the same precision. 1GB=1024MB in some cases, and so forth.
Generally speaking.
Apple still sells a ton of these and they satisfy a market niche that's at least as important as the Shuffle.
Until you can get a flash based iPod at those capacities, it's sticking around - unless Apple simply wants to hand over the high-capacity archive segment of the music player market to everyone else.
Until you can get a flash based iPod at those capacities, it's sticking around - unless Apple simply wants to hand over the high-capacity archive segment of the music player market to everyone else.
I listen to music doing chores and sleeping so I use the Classic. Not having to look at the device to navigate through it is an amazing feature to me, plus the storage capacity. I cannot do this with the Touch which you always have to look at to navigate.
I know Apple hates buttons but with the Ipod classic they're king.
I know Apple hates buttons but with the Ipod classic they're king.
That would probably be the people who also care about a larger than 160 GB drive being available for it .... which is pretty much the point of this thread.
-1 for comprehension.
Because cloud-based/streaming music is going to be low sound-quality, that's why. I would guess that most of us who have 160gb Ipods are not just freaks who have a ton of music, we are listeners who crave high quality sound and rip our music at much higher bitrates than most people. In order for Apple and the carriers to handle a massive stream of music, it will get crushed down before being streamed to users. It'll be passable, but low-quality. Most people won't care, but some of us will. I revel in hearing great sound quality. I love the idea of streaming, but the times I've played with it (Pandora, apps that access my own collection, etc.) I've been disappointed with the sound quality. It will be years before we get something that approaches audiophile quality.
I stream 256kbps music on my iPhone regularly. It's not lossless but 3G can handle lossless bitrates easy if that's important to you.
That requires a constant Internet connection, doesn't it? Not really close to being available everywhere yet.
Hard drives are on their way out, but not quite yet.
I hope not. That joke on the iPod Classic like OS 9 could come back to bite him soon. He already has one foot in there now.
I would LOVE to have a 220 GB iPod. iPod Touches and so on, are nice and all, but for me, I like music. Higher-quality recordings on top of that. A 160 GB iPod classic isn't enough to hold my entire music collection, but a 200 or 220 GB one would. It would be nice to never have to go back to my computer and 'shuffle' things around again.
I already have a 240GB 5g ipod from rapidrepair.com. I could have done it myself but they will build one to specifications if you want. Though the classic form factor I like a little better so it will be nice to see what happens.
http://www.rapidrepair.com/shop/3119-hard-drive-disk-mk2431gah.html This is the drive they use, if you just have them build you a custom 5G though they throw in a longer life battery as well.
http://www.rapidrepair.com/shop/3119-hard-drive-disk-mk2431gah.html This is the drive they use, if you just have them build you a custom 5G though they throw in a longer life battery as well.
Those drives are dual-platter and won't fit in the current iPod classic shell...
Says who? What inside knowledge of the Flash market do you possess?
Prices have not come down. There doesn't even exist a 64 gb iPhone yet.
I think you'll need to wait to at least 2012, for iPad 3, to see 128 gb in an iOS portable.
Probably 2013, iPod touch 7, will have a 128 gb option as well.
From what I can see of the market, there is no indication whatsoever that either iPad or iPod touch will receive 128 gb options this year.