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iPod touch So, the update is that there is no update?
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Heh, same here.
I'm not convinced there are any significant changes to the hardware. We already knew that before the 3GS, the 2nd gen touch was the most powerful device. My guess is they just enabled the software to support OpenGL.
I am totally disappointed. Now my son is gonna cry because I am not giving him my 2gen ipod touch as I told him I would when I got a new one with a camera. Why? Because Apple could not find it in their heart to give me a solid upgrade.
Jobs should be ashamed of himself for hyping this up as it was. He just wants more money for old tech.
Bad job Jobs.
you really should mail a hard copy of that story to Apple. i actually lol'd irl reading then picturing it in my head. for added effect, upload video of your son senselessly weeping in the corner after the fact.
APPLE U EFFING MONSTERS!!
if you do decide to do video, plz use the new Nano
What's really interesting is the included FM radio on the nano--many predicted Apple would never do this. I feel like this has opened a door. . .
You never mentioned anything about only needed 8GB. Only that your current one was the latest and greatest out there.
I think I am going to need counseling after this dark depression I am sinking into due to the lack of a camera and mic.
Oh well. At least I can play beatles rock band tonight.
Norah Jones (bleh)
Oh well. At least I can play beatles rock band tonight.
Norah Jones (bleh)
I thought I'd read that the implementation of OpenGL employed on the iPhone 3GS depends on hardware acceleration that was incompatible with the hardware in the iPhone 3G -- that a different CPU and embedded GPU combination was required.
I also thought I'd read that the CPU in the 2G iPod touch is simply a different speed grade of the same CPU in the iPhone 3G, so both would be just as incapable of using the same implementation of hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
So, if the same level of OpenGL support is present on the new iPod touches as on the iPhone 3GS, I'm willing to accept, until proved otherwise, that the new iPod touches do, in fact, have a new CPU and embedded GPU.
I've got both spec sheets open in front of me (8GB vs 32/64GB), and I see no mention of any difference in processors. Could you tell me what to look for?
Whatever, all I know is I was right about my touch not getting updated this September.
From the various feeds from the event, and having a quick glance at the Apple website, I have not seen any official reference to an iPod Touch "3G". IMO the rumors of production problems were true, and that we can expect to see the "real 3G" sometime in the near future. Perhaps in time for the holiday season.
You're right, there's nothing about it in the spec sheet; CPU and RAM specifications have never been published in those documents for iPods.
The Apple Store does have a short side-by-side comparison of the three currently-available iPod touches. It lists three features for the 8GB iPod touch:
1,750 songs
10 hours of video
Earphones
It lists four features for both the 32GB and the 64GB iPod touch:
7,000/14,000 songs
40/80 hours of video
Faster performance
Earphones with Remote and Mic
The "Faster performance" feature is the suggestive feature here, with corroborating evidence in the media event that OpenGL support was being added to the two higher-end models.
