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Samsung Announces 160GB 1.8
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it would be pretty thick. fortunately, we've got two other dimensions that 1.8" could be.
too much
I think Apple would be stupid to go down the track of putting a 160gb drive in an ipod. I would prefer to see more functionality like there is in the iriver products (built in radio tuner for starters) and longer battery life. Apple have gotten away with ipod hype for a long time now and i think the wave is starting to break.
Personally I find ipods boring now and can't wait to sell mine and get an iphone.
I think Apple would be stupid to go down the track of putting a 160gb drive in an ipod. I would prefer to see more functionality like there is in the iriver products (built in radio tuner for starters) and longer battery life. Apple have gotten away with ipod hype for a long time now and i think the wave is starting to break.
Personally I find ipods boring now and can't wait to sell mine and get an iphone.
it would be pretty thick. fortunately, we've got two other dimensions that 1.8" could be.
in fact, three.
i think ipods do what they're meant to do really well, and that is to play digital music. the only thing the ipod really needs is a larger screen for video viewing and a longer battery life. i could do without wifi or built-in radio.
actually, no. thickness was already one dimension mentioned. i pointed out two other possible dimensions. is there something i'm not getting?
i don't care about capacity (very few people have 160GB of iPod-playable media, and i doubt any of those people will want to have it all available to them all the time). I just want the drives to become more durable. In my experience, the HDD is usually the second component to die (very shortly after the battery). I think get the iPods up to 120GB, but make the drives more stable.
not as thick as you obviously....
The above text is intended as a joke, no offense was intended, merely giggles....
It would also be nice if those camcorders did 1080p60 too (and by that I mean 1920x1080P @ 60 fps).
id kinda drop to your feet if you had that, and the fact that your computer would be powerful enuf to handle the bandwidth..
Re: iPod storage, harddrive vs flash
That's just a lack of technical knowledge and regurgitation of FUD.
iPod, due to the buffer size, access the hard drive for seconds to fill the buffer once every 40-60 minutes. The harddrive is NOT spinning all the time.
Nobody is perfect. People drop all kinds of things including iPod. Heck, Ive dropped my iPod a few times. And guess what, they still work perfectly. iPod: sold over 100 Million. Complaint about iPod being damaged due to its storage medium is non-existent except for the people who never owned one.
That's just a lack of technical knowledge and regurgitation of FUD.
iPod, due to the buffer size, access the hard drive for seconds to fill the buffer once every 40-60 minutes. The harddrive is NOT spinning all the time.
Nobody is perfect. People drop all kinds of things including iPod. Heck, Ive dropped my iPod a few times. And guess what, they still work perfectly. iPod: sold over 100 Million. Complaint about iPod being damaged due to its storage medium is non-existent except for the people who never owned one.
DJs and Audiophile want larger capacity iPods
There are people who buy CDs and have been encoding them in AIFF for over 10 years. Those people would like their whole music collection on their iPod as a back up measure. At this time, I personally want a 250gb iPod.
There are people who buy CDs and have been encoding them in AIFF for over 10 years. Those people would like their whole music collection on their iPod as a back up measure. At this time, I personally want a 250gb iPod.
Radio is now owned by a few big corporations and they play the same songs over and over again. I can replicate radio, with some songs played about dozen times every day, by putting 25 to 50 song on iPod in a loop. I don't ever listen to radio anymore when I am in the car.
The programming that's better than radio is podcast. You can listen to it or watch it any time.
Hmmm...not really. When the first-gen 5GB iPod came out I already owned a 20GB Creative Nomad Jukebox and had 11GB of music on it. It was almost exactly the same size and shape as a portable CD player (how uninventive), with a klunky but usable interface, which sync'ed (s..l..o..w..l..y over USB) to Soundjam and early versions of iTunes. It had a laptop hard drive inside, which accounted for the size and weight!
What Apple had on the other guys at the time was a small form factor per gigabyte, remarkable and magical user interface, and FAST FireWire transfer. I recall how painful it was for me as an Apple fanboy to wait a full year until the 15GB and 30GB iPod models came out (albeit with that goofy row of 4 super-sensitive control buttons) and I could join the iPod army.
Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but hard drives are old school and Apple knows it. The failure rates are higher, they limit the device size, and they use too much power.
With the amount of flash that Apple is picking up, one can only conclude that there will be no more hdds in future iPods. Don't forget the flash based laptops that they are working on.
If you do the math, I think the next gen high-end nano will sport 16G flash and the next gen video will sport 16G and 32G of flash.
I stinks that the users used to the 60/80G configurations will have to take a hit to keep up with technology.
With the amount of flash that Apple is picking up, one can only conclude that there will be no more hdds in future iPods. Don't forget the flash based laptops that they are working on.
If you do the math, I think the next gen high-end nano will sport 16G flash and the next gen video will sport 16G and 32G of flash.
I stinks that the users used to the 60/80G configurations will have to take a hit to keep up with technology.
Have you ever considered that PRICE is the main reason why they don't offer huge flash-based iPod's? Checked the price of that new Sony Vaio with a flash hdd?
Customers won't give half a crap what the storage medium in the new iPods is if the price is double what it is now. The iPods are need to stay mainstream.
Not to mention that there simply isn't enough supply to meet such a demand for such widespread use of flash-based storage. Don't forget that people will want to take their 50gigs+ of video/music/photos with them, so 32gigs of flash-ed iPod just won't do.
Speak for yourself Mr. "Super Cranky". I have 115 GB of music on my Macbook. ALL legally acquired/purchased (either through my 1,000+ CD's, subscription to emusic.com, and iTunes store purchases).
What about laptops?
Seems to me another, arguably more needed use for these giant 1.8" drives would be in laptops. You could put at least two in a standard lappy and get a RAID 1 to protect your data, a rather good thing in a professional setup. Maybe even 3 or 4 in a RAID 5 config.
Seems to me another, arguably more needed use for these giant 1.8" drives would be in laptops. You could put at least two in a standard lappy and get a RAID 1 to protect your data, a rather good thing in a professional setup. Maybe even 3 or 4 in a RAID 5 config.