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What's Next... iPod Updates?
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Slightly off topic, but does anybody know if you can partition an iPod ie create a bootable HD on one partition, and then use the remainder for its original function? That might give people a reason to go for a larger iPod....
$199 iPods
For those of you out there who are just looking to buy a cheep iPod and don't care about updates, the Apple Store is currentley offering refurbished 5GB iPods for $199 this is by far the cheepest I've ever seen them.
According to Apple's website it's the origional touch scroll wheel and includes the "new ear bud headphones" (but doesn't say anything about a remote.)
Thought this was interesting, anyone wanna read anything into this?
For those of you out there who are just looking to buy a cheep iPod and don't care about updates, the Apple Store is currentley offering refurbished 5GB iPods for $199 this is by far the cheepest I've ever seen them.
According to Apple's website it's the origional touch scroll wheel and includes the "new ear bud headphones" (but doesn't say anything about a remote.)
Thought this was interesting, anyone wanna read anything into this?
Thank you for putting us back on some topic related to the iPod!
To answer your question, to the best of my understanding the iPod by nature is partitioned. Your music and data is stored seperatley on the iPod.
You can mount your iPod on the desktop just like it is any other external drive, but as I said in my previous post currentley the iPod will only boot up until OS 10.1.3. Also, when using them as a bootable drive and trying to work off of them for any extended period of time the drive tends to get very warm and can overheat. Apple's got more info on their site.
Got my new iPod
After over a month of waiting, I gave in and I got a new 10GB iPod. I'm loading my songs right now. The new 10GB is impressive because of its slimness. I can't wait to get back to life with an iPod. Its gonna be great. Oh yeah and I bought it at Best Buy and then had a healthy stock supply. So I got mine but I still hope the come out with new ones. Why? Beacuse I can return this thing no questions asked for the next thirty days. And then get the new one or the cheaper price. I hope it works just they say and the policy reads. So the day they come out I'm returning this baby or gettin some money back. LOL Watch it will probally be only a few days. So now I feel so much better havin my iPod. Finally I'll get some time away from these rumor pages........maybe. To all those who can't wait any longer but want some insurance this could be a good way to go for you too.
After over a month of waiting, I gave in and I got a new 10GB iPod. I'm loading my songs right now. The new 10GB is impressive because of its slimness. I can't wait to get back to life with an iPod. Its gonna be great. Oh yeah and I bought it at Best Buy and then had a healthy stock supply. So I got mine but I still hope the come out with new ones. Why? Beacuse I can return this thing no questions asked for the next thirty days. And then get the new one or the cheaper price. I hope it works just they say and the policy reads. So the day they come out I'm returning this baby or gettin some money back. LOL Watch it will probally be only a few days. So now I feel so much better havin my iPod. Finally I'll get some time away from these rumor pages........maybe. To all those who can't wait any longer but want some insurance this could be a good way to go for you too.Re: Re: $199 iPods
Here's the link: Apple Store it's under the "special deals" section pretty far down the page. It woudl be easy to miss...
As for the Best Buy exchange policy question...my dad has taken advantage of this SEVERAL times (I'm surprised they don't have his photo taped to the register by now.) and as long as you have the box and all the packaging and the iPod is in good condition you're fine. Just double cheeck to see if in your case there is any restocking fee. I'm not sure if they consider the iPod computer equipment or audio equipment, the policy differes depending on what category the product is in.
Originally posted by strep61
Where did you find this? I looked on the apple site but no luck
Do you have a link?
Thanks!
Here's the link: Apple Store it's under the "special deals" section pretty far down the page. It woudl be easy to miss...
As for the Best Buy exchange policy question...my dad has taken advantage of this SEVERAL times (I'm surprised they don't have his photo taped to the register by now.) and as long as you have the box and all the packaging and the iPod is in good condition you're fine. Just double cheeck to see if in your case there is any restocking fee. I'm not sure if they consider the iPod computer equipment or audio equipment, the policy differes depending on what category the product is in.
40 GB Uses?
I'm with Katie-- 40 GB would make a great back up tool. Right now I backup to a USB drive, and the time involved means that I do it much less often than I should.
Still, it took me some time to come up with that as a justification.... even when I capture my whole CD collection I'll be far short of 40GB. A nice color screen for watching videos would be sweet... but that's just crazy talk, eh? ;-)
-James
I'm with Katie-- 40 GB would make a great back up tool. Right now I backup to a USB drive, and the time involved means that I do it much less often than I should.
Still, it took me some time to come up with that as a justification.... even when I capture my whole CD collection I'll be far short of 40GB. A nice color screen for watching videos would be sweet... but that's just crazy talk, eh? ;-)
-James
Believe it or not there are many of us who couldn't fit our entire CD collection onto even a 40 GB iPod. I imagine most people around here don't trade live music, but I own maybe 300 3 disc shows, maybe more, not to mention another 250 albums, and another 100 or so official live releases. My collection is always growing, as just today I added another 9 discs to it. If I encoded at 192 kbps or higher I'd say that I'm looking at about 50-60 GB, although it's hard to estimate that. Certainly if you just take a look at the number of CD's I have, the 40 GB should hold 800 cd's (each cd with about 10 songs), while I have cd's full to the brim of 80 minutes and about 1250 cd's. That'd be about 1.5x the capacity of a 40 GB iPod.
Do I or does anyone else really need that much disk space for music? Probably not. The only thing I would say about that is that if I'm on the road for a significant part of the summer, it would be nice to have my entire catalog with me all times, use it in my car, and not ever worry about my cd's being stolen. I would also probably use it to store data as well, just general stuff I don't want on my computer, need to carry with me, etc...
I think it'd surprise you how much you could get out of a 40 GB iPod. If you have the space, sooner or later you'll fill it up.
Do I or does anyone else really need that much disk space for music? Probably not. The only thing I would say about that is that if I'm on the road for a significant part of the summer, it would be nice to have my entire catalog with me all times, use it in my car, and not ever worry about my cd's being stolen. I would also probably use it to store data as well, just general stuff I don't want on my computer, need to carry with me, etc...
I think it'd surprise you how much you could get out of a 40 GB iPod. If you have the space, sooner or later you'll fill it up.
Ah....and it seems like only yesterday when we NEVER thought we could fill up more than 1GB. That WAS HUGE.
Heck, I was so excited when I got my first Mac with an internal Hard Drive, no more switching out 800k flopies.
With every computer I buy I say to myself, "I'll get the smaller hard drive and save some bucks, after all I'll NEVER fill up 20GB" He he he...
Heck, I was so excited when I got my first Mac with an internal Hard Drive, no more switching out 800k flopies.
With every computer I buy I say to myself, "I'll get the smaller hard drive and save some bucks, after all I'll NEVER fill up 20GB" He he he...
It's not a matter if people need 40 gigs of space for their music, what is important is which HDs are available for Apple. HDs get bigger all the time and the companies have to keep up or they'll loose to the competition. When Toshiba releases new HDs the 40 gig will probably take the old 20 gig's place in the line, and you'll get twice the space for the same price. I've also read that they will not produce the 5 gig anymore, so it's neccesary to use the larger HDs.
You can compare this to HDs in computers. I have a 15 gig in my pc I bought 2-3 years ago, and do I really NEED more space? Not really...
Still they make the HDs bigger and bigger and today the standard is 80 gig or something like that. In a year it will probably be 200-300 gig, and we'll buy it anyways, not because we NEED it, but because it is the standard size and smaller drives are not longer available.
You can compare this to HDs in computers. I have a 15 gig in my pc I bought 2-3 years ago, and do I really NEED more space? Not really...
Still they make the HDs bigger and bigger and today the standard is 80 gig or something like that. In a year it will probably be 200-300 gig, and we'll buy it anyways, not because we NEED it, but because it is the standard size and smaller drives are not longer available.
uhhhhhhh. . .
hmmmmmm . . . I'd like to say that there are ALOT of people that need more than 40 gigs (or even 80). If you make home videos or do any audio recording, that space will get chomped up within 2 or 3 years. My g4 had 30 gigs and i thought that was enough, but i still had problems after a little while. just two 10 minute long imovies and a couple hours of raw audio took up that space and I had to buy an 80 gig HD, which i have almost filled after a year.
fm
hmmmmmm . . . I'd like to say that there are ALOT of people that need more than 40 gigs (or even 80). If you make home videos or do any audio recording, that space will get chomped up within 2 or 3 years. My g4 had 30 gigs and i thought that was enough, but i still had problems after a little while. just two 10 minute long imovies and a couple hours of raw audio took up that space and I had to buy an 80 gig HD, which i have almost filled after a year.
fm
Uhhh, lots of updates this year
Since the last week of DEC 02:
iCal update
iSync 1.0
Jan. 7 MWNY
PowerBooks, iLife, Safari, Keynote, etc
Jan 10-15
Safari beta update
Financial results
Jan 28
G4 update
20" LCD
Feb 10
Xserve
Xraid
Feb 12-14
iMac updates
eMacs
Safari beta update
10.2.4 update
Feb 17-18
??
Since the last week of DEC 02:
iCal update
iSync 1.0
Jan. 7 MWNY
PowerBooks, iLife, Safari, Keynote, etc
Jan 10-15
Safari beta update
Financial results
Jan 28
G4 update
20" LCD
Feb 10
Xserve
Xraid
Feb 12-14
iMac updates
eMacs
Safari beta update
10.2.4 update
Feb 17-18
??
I wish someone had an "insider" that could tell us whether the new iPods are getting done on Tuesday. This is getting a little ridiculous, if it wasn't for rumors I would have a 20GB, now I am a slave to the rumor boards
Mike
P.S. Thanks to whomever it was who pointed out my signature was wrong
Mike
P.S. Thanks to whomever it was who pointed out my signature was wrong
same here.
I was one click from checking out on Amazon for a 10GB last week, then it hit me...maybe I need to check out the next models.
And for the last week, I've been lurking here. All I gotta say is, there better be a damn announcement tomorrow !!!
I may just go ahead and buy the current ones from Amazon.com, but because I have a boatload of gift certificates and coupons, it may be a hassle to return and trade up.
BTW, there's a person on Amazon's marketplace selling a brand new 20GB IPOD for $349, while all the others are selling at full price.
Hmm..maybe this guy knows something we don't or it's stolen.
I was one click from checking out on Amazon for a 10GB last week, then it hit me...maybe I need to check out the next models.
And for the last week, I've been lurking here. All I gotta say is, there better be a damn announcement tomorrow !!!
I may just go ahead and buy the current ones from Amazon.com, but because I have a boatload of gift certificates and coupons, it may be a hassle to return and trade up.
BTW, there's a person on Amazon's marketplace selling a brand new 20GB IPOD for $349, while all the others are selling at full price.
Hmm..maybe this guy knows something we don't or it's stolen.
Time of updates?
What was the time when Apple put the last product updates in the homepage? I mean, 8 AM or 9 AM, Cupertino time?
It's 13:00 here in Spain, so I believe it must be... 5 or 6 AM in the west coast of the US. God, I am tired of waiting for an update. Let's hope it is made today...
*making fists with fingers, toes, ears, whatever*
What was the time when Apple put the last product updates in the homepage? I mean, 8 AM or 9 AM, Cupertino time?
It's 13:00 here in Spain, so I believe it must be... 5 or 6 AM in the west coast of the US. God, I am tired of waiting for an update. Let's hope it is made today...
*making fists with fingers, toes, ears, whatever*