iPod touch Want a 64 (or 128(!)) GB Touch

[Enigmafan420]

Um...that was a joke. I was merely making an educated guess as to the price of a 512GB NAND chip if it existed today, which it does not. By the time 512GB NAND chips are being mass-produced, they'll be extremely cheap. The 1-terabyte iPod touch (yes it will exist sooner than you think) will probably use two of these. Hell, 7 years ago my aunt paid close to $50 for a 64MB (MEGABYTE!!!!) SD card for her digital camera.

To show you all how old I am-I once bought a 64MB HARD DRIVE for my Apple 2 GS-and it cost over $700(!) and was the about the size of an IBM XT case cut in half. It even had an external (!) power supply. :O

Bought it at Applefest in S.F.-before Macworld even existed. WOZ used to give the keynotes

 

[DoFoT9]

To show you all how old I am-I once bought a 64MB HARD DRIVE for my Apple 2 GS-and it cost over $700(!) and was the about the size of an IBM XT case cut in half. It even had an external (!) power supply. :O

Bought it at Applefest in S.F.-before Macworld even existed. WOZ used to give the keynotes

wow your not very old, i remember when dad bought home an 800k (kilobit!!!!) external storage device for his apple ][. cost more than what you paid for yours aswell

 

[Enigmafan420]

wow your not very old, i remember when dad bought home an 800k (kilobit!!!!) external storage device for his apple ][. cost more than what you paid for yours aswell

I had an external storage device as well-it must have cost around $400-and a box of 10 5.25" "Elephant" floppies-each holding 143(!) KB cost $50.

 

[DoFoT9]

I had an external storage device as well-it must have cost around $400-and a box of 10 5.25" "Elephant" floppies-each holding 143(!) KB cost $50.

ok ok thats enough, no need to inflate yourself even more

 

[Enigmafan420]

ok ok thats enough, no need to inflate yourself even more

Not trying to-simply trying to state I am an OLD FART-and it is amazing how far we have come

 

[DoFoT9]

Not trying to-simply trying to state I am an OLD FART-and it is amazing how far we have come

haha ok wow, at least youve been through your mid-life crisis eheh. there arent many people your age that can even use a computer let alone detect sarcasm via text-based conversation, your doing well. i commend you *claps*

 

[Enigmafan420]

haha ok wow, at least youve been through your mid-life crisis eheh. there arent many people your age that can even use a computer let alone detect sarcasm via text-based conversation, your doing well. i commend you *claps*

THanks-LOL

On a serious note, my first computer was an Apple 2 + and my parents bought it for me when I was a freshman in high school. It had 48k RAM in it, and no Floppy drive. The cassette drive was killing me so my parents ponied out the $400 mentioned above for a 5.25" floppy drive.

Then one year Origin Systems released a trio of games that required 64k. I was SO DISTRAUGHT because I really wanted to play these games. So I had a part time job and had to wait for my income tax refund to fund the purchase (no electronic filing in those days . It cost $129 for a 16k RAM card. And it literally was a card. It had to be plugged into "Slot 0" on the Apple 2+.

Now I have an iPhone that cost "Only" $199-I say only because of AT$T outrageous fees. The iPhone must be 1,000 times more powerful than that old 2+.

And I recently bought an 8 GB HCSD card for my camera for $25(!). Truly amazing the way technology bucks the general trend of more money for less.

 

[Jayomat]

But seriously you can never have too much music.

I like hearing things I've never heard before and may never hear again in a context that will never be repeated.

EXACTLY what i thought!

 

[DoFoT9]

THanks-LOL

On a serious note, my first computer was an Apple 2 + and my parents bought it for me when I was a freshman in high school. It had 48k RAM in it, and no Floppy drive. The cassette drive was killing me so my parents ponied out the $400 mentioned above for a 5.25" floppy drive.

Then one year Origin Systems released a trio of games that required 64k. I was SO DISTRAUGHT because I really wanted to play these games. So I had a part time job and had to wait for my income tax refund to fund the purchase (no electronic filing in those days . It cost $129 for a 16k RAM card. And it literally was a card. It had to be plugged into "Slot 0" on the Apple 2+.

Now I have an iPhone that cost "Only" $199-I say only because of AT$T outrageous fees. The iPhone must be 1,000 times more powerful than that old 2+.

And I recently bought an 8 GB HCSD card for my camera for $25(!). Truly amazing the way technology bucks the general trend of more money for less.

ok wow now THAT is showing your age hahahahaha.

im only 19, so the first computer i remember my rents having was an apple 2+ (same as you), but i didnt get to use it because i was only 3 or something.. the first computer i remember fully playing with was the LC 575 with 7.1, where it could play everything i threw at it (Sim City 2000, Lemmings, brickels etc).

it truely is amazing how far technology has come, but i am used to it advancing. a few years ago i bought a 500gb HD for $250, now they are $90. i can even get a 1tb HD cheaper then that!

i am just waiting for the day when hardware stops advancing because
A: it cannot advance any further
OR
B: to let the software catch up

i think B will happen first.

 

[Enigmafan420]

i am just waiting for the day when hardware stops advancing because
A: it cannot advance any further
OR
B: to let the software catch up

i think B will happen first.

B really does need to happen first-Because, especially in the Windoze world, M$ and others keep making bloat ware because they can get away with it. When the processor power doubles roughly every 18 months, programming can be sloppy. I am hoping that processor development SLOWS DOWN so that programmers have to write tight code-that would improve computer experience much more than a 4.6 gHz 16 core processor would!

IMO

 

[milkypink]

Ahh... OP, I feel your pain. I'm waiting for a 64GB iPod Touch as well. I have ~45GB of music at the moment.

For those of you wondering why anyone would "need" that much music with them all the time, here are my personal reasons:

It's an emergency backup of my music. If something happens to my laptop (and this has happened before!) and I lose everything on it, I still can drag the files back from my iPod to a computer (with or without Apple's permission, I don't care. It's my music.)

It's much smaller than bringing a laptop with me during travel. Sure, I could buy a netbook and load it up with all of my music, but it's still a hassle to pick and chose everything I want every day. Not to mention on full days of travel (going overseas, depending on the location, can take up to 14-20 hours!) where I can't sleep I like to be able to listen to whatever my mood desires without worry.

Higher quality rips take up more space. I don't have a lot of 320kbps tracks, but I do have some, and I imagine if you ripped all of your music that way it would be quite the space hog...

And lastly, I'm picky and it's my media player so if I want to have all of my music with me all of the time, what of it? More space means more movies, as well. If the flash chips are going to increase in size anyway, and the overall shape of the player isn't going to change due to the upgrade, what's the problem? Why complain about having MORE space? If you don't need it, great, but there are people who want it, and it isn't hurting you

 

[Ridly]

I am currently a little past half way though on my 32GB Touch. I got here because I re did my collection (2600 songs) with 256kbs. It is filling up rapidly and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. I don't want to go back to 128 to save space, but the problem is I can't really tell the difference in sound quality.