New iMacs (and iPods) 748
Dilaudid writes "According to
this story at MacWorld Apple has just announced three new iMac models - all with Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme. More importantly there are new iPods too. Cool." The iMacs got a speed bump up to 1.25GHz, and the iPods were capacity-bumped up to 40GB.
Still no OGG (Score:3, Informative)
Good thing I have an iRiver discman though
-----Article:
>>>Apple upgrades iMac range
By Jonny Evans
Apple today introduced new iMac configurations featuring up to a 1.25GHz G4 processor and faster 333MHz DDR memory as standard.
Three models of iMac are now available as standard from the company: the 1GHz 15-inch screen Combo drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) iMac; the 17-inch model (with SuperDrive), hosting a 1.25GHz processor; and the 17-inch SuperDrive Plus model, which offers 1.25GHz, and ships with AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth built-in.
The 15-inch iMac costs 999; the 17-inch SuperDrive costs 1,449; and the 17-inch SuperDrive Plus costs 1,713. Prices include VAT.
All models are AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth ready, though the highest-end model is the only iMac with these features pre-installed. Other features common across the range include: 80GB hard drives (high end, 160GB); 10/100Base-T Ethernet; 56K internal modems; and Apple Pro speakers.
The new iMacs have three USB 2.0 ports and two FireWire 400 ports. They do not offer the new FireWire 800 standard.
The 15-inch model has an NVidia GeForce4 MX graphics card installed with 32MB dedicated DDR video memory - up from a GeForce2 MX. The two 17-inch iMacs offer NVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics cards with 64MB DDR memory installed. Previously the 17-inch models featured the GeForce4 MX.
With Mac OS X 10.2 and Apple's iApps (iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and iDVD), the software bundle includes: QuickTime, iCal, iChat, iSync, DVD Player, AppleWorks, Mac OS X Mail, Internet Explorer, Mac OS X Chess, Otto Matic, Deimos Rising, FAXstf, Acrobat Reader, and the Apple Hardware Test CD.
Apple has also introduced new iPods with a maximum 40GB storage:
>>>40GB iPod launched
By Macworld staff
Apple has introduced a 40GB iPod for 398.99 including VAT.
The new version replaces the 30GB iPod, although the price is unchanged. The 40GB model can hold 10,000 songs, and weighs 176 grams.
The 15GB version has also been replaced by a 20GB version, with pricing fixed at 299.
All iPods include earbud headphones, an iPod power adaptor, a FireWire cable and a 4-pin-to-6-pin iPod FireWire adaptor.
20GB and 40GB models include the iPod Dock, a carrying case and wired remote.
Re:Still no OGG (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/sep/08musics
iTunes Music Store Sells Ten Millionth Song
Cupertino, California--September 8, 2003--Apple(R) today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over ten million songs from the iTunes(R) Music Store since its launch just over four months ago, averaging over 500,000 songs per week. The ten millionth song, "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne, was purchased and downloaded at 11:34 p.m. (PDT) on September 3.
The combination of the iTunes digital music jukebox, the pioneering iTunes Music Store and the market-leading iPod(TM) digital music player provide users with a complete solution for buying, managing and listening to their digital music collections anywhere. The iTunes Music Store will be available to Windows users by the end of this year.
"Legally selling ten million songs online in just four months is a historic milestone for the music industry, musicians and music lovers everywhere," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Apple offers the only complete solution for digital music with iTunes and the amazing iPod, which now holds 10,000 songs in your pocket."
"We are honored and grateful to be one of the top selling artists in the iTunes Music Store," said Chris Martin, singer/songwriter of the Grammy-award winning band Coldplay. "It's clear Apple has delivered a working and successful platform for music fans to discover artists and purchase both albums and single songs instantly with ease. We embrace these efforts enthusiastically and see them as the future of our business."
The revolutionary online music store offers songs from major and independent music labels, groundbreaking personal use rights, and one-click download directly into Apple's integrated digital jukebox software, iTunes--all for just 99 cents per song. Users can listen to free 30-second previews of any song in the store, then purchase and download their favorite songs or complete albums in pristine digital quality. Songs can be burned at no extra cost onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, played on up to three computers, and listened to on an unlimited number of iPods.
What's really interesting... (Score:5, Interesting)
10M songs? Yeah, but it's only 0.99 per song, so that's less than $10M. IIRC, Apple keeps about a third of that, so ~$3M.
How much did it cost to program, to feed the lawyers to get all the contracts, to set up the servers/bandwidth needed? (And the Apple Store is *fast*- they didn't skimp here.)
I can't imagine this is going to have a big positive impact on Apple's bottom line, unless (and it's a big unless) the publicity they are getting sells more Macs/iPods. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the sole reason they are bothering.
Re:What's really interesting... (Score:5, Insightful)
All those costs you talk about are fixed costs.
In other words, when this is deployed to Windows (the other 95% of the computer using population) - it will suddenly make up a lot more than 10 mill in revenue. It will go spastic.
That will in turn encourage iPod sales, and those iPod sales will in turn encourage more music store purchases. Then they can start the real cross-pollination; "buy an iPod, get 10 free songs at the Apple Music Store".
If enough people start doing it, it's gonna hit a critical mass then just explode. The only risk Apple faces is if MS/whoever starts eating Apple's dinner. OTOH, very few of the other solutions will work with the world's most popular MP3 player - the iPod.
-- james
Re:What's really interesting... (Score:3, Insightful)
Servers and bandwidth are not a fixed cost.
When your load increases by a factor of 19, your costs for servers and bandwidth also go up.
Re:What's really interesting... (Score:3, Informative)
The other commercial solutions are not offering MP3s because they cannot get labels to agree to distribute music in that format. Most of the others are going the Microsoft route, which does not support the iPod.
Re:What's really interesting... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What's really interesting... (Score:4, Funny)
Funny how it all works.
Think of the whole business... (Score:3, Interesting)
Forget about the money Apple is making from the store, and notice that it is a great big Get Out Of Jail Free card for Apple.
The Apple platform is so great for digital media because it provides a set of powerful and easy tools for manipulating digital content. With a moto like "Rip, Mix, Burn," and products like the MP3-playing iPod apple was about half a step from Napster's legal
Re:Still no OGG (Score:4, Insightful)
MP3 is freely available and is the defacto standard. There is no shortage of MP3 players both hardware and software based, nor apps which rip to MP3. Ogg while not "patent encumbered" is a solution in search of a problem.
I think its great that game companies are going Ogg(although where's the savings for me??) and I think its nice that for commercial products you have this good free codec. But for the rest of us will stick with what works and what is standard, free, and easily available.
So cry all you want for Ogg but don't be surprised when we all ignore you and stick with what works.(Not a flame)
Re:Still no OGG (Score:3, Funny)
Because they sell computers that nobody uses? Sounds like providing OGG would be par for the course.
Re:Still no OGG (Score:5, Insightful)
There are a number of free players and encoders out there that are not liscenced, but these are explicitly infringing on Fraunhofer's patents. They simply have not been taken to court. This is very similar to the whole gif case (the algorithm behind the gif format was patented... recently expired in the US).
Ogg Vorbis is a small player, but it is a truly free one.
And as an owner of a iPod, why would you use mp3 when AAC is so much better.
Get a Neuros (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Get a Neuros (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Get a Neuros (Score:5, Interesting)
Costs the same amount as the iPod ($399, 20GB Models)
Is larger and heavier than the iPod: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz. vs 4.1" x 2.4" x
Cannot use Firewire or USB 2.0 without a special "backpack" (iPod uses a USB/2.0 adaptor kit to translate pins)
Not nearly as good looking
Difficult syncing
No smart playlists
No Mac support
Your average listener does not have any OGG Vorbis files. The FM transmitter and tuner sound cool but not cool enough. Apple will add voice recording to the iPod with a firmware update, the hardware to do so is already in place. This player sounds cool but it's by no means at all an iPod killer. Has any one out there actually used one as well as an iPod? How do their features compare? Ease of use?
Re:Get a Neuros (Score:3, Informative)
They buy a Belkin TuneCast [belkin.com] or a Griffin iTrip [griffintechnology.com].
Re:Still no OGG (Score:4, Informative)
Welcome to reality. Coat-check is on your left.
Re:Still no OGG (Score:4, Insightful)
...
Wow, a record label I've never heard of, featuring Artists I've also never heard of, uses OGG _in addition_ to mp3. How convincing.
Gee... going from "I've never seen an OGG file" to "Yeah, so some record label out there uses 'em along with MP3 files. Big deal". I provide an example of a place who uses 'em, and you scoff at the example provided. Talk about being closed-minded. :)
Oh, and you might want to download some of those OGG files and pop them into your favorite player of choice. There's some good music waiting to be discovered there. Just because you haven't heard of it before doesn't mean it's not good.
Wrong link... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?Ne
Headless iMacs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Insightful)
Having said that, I would like to see another go at a 'cube type' solution.
CB
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Informative)
They did this with the Cube, but it didn't catch fire like the original iMacs did so I doubt they'll be trying that again.
Not exactly true. The G4 Cube was monitor-less, but it was far from cheap. It cost just below a PowerMac with the same peformance, but with very limited expantion slots.
The cool thing with the cube was that it was almost completely silent (no fans what so ever!). Only a 5400rpm disk.
Another interesting thing with the cube is that it's second hand value is still very high, often around 500 to 900 dollars (ebay [ebay.com]), even though the model is old. That's about half its retail price as new...
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Funny)
You're thinking of the PowerBook 5300.
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:4, Insightful)
The Cube was also much more than a headless iMac. It was the test bed for Apple to develop the G4 Powerbook. It has all the complex problems of designing a laptop solved. Small space, heat dissipation with little/no ventilation, and running with low power consumption.
As far as expandability a large percentage of consumers will never even consider upgrading. If they do they will upgrade maybe RAM and maybe the harddrive, Both those are easily upgraded the cube. That is why the iMac is popular, that is why laptops are popular (no one whines about their lack of expandability) thats why the Cube still has its cult following.
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Headless iMacs (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought about this, and I came with at least 4 reasons.
Re:Headless slashdot poster... (Score:4, Insightful)
No, I don't really feel better...I can't express the depths of my dislike for those who feel the need to endlessly disparage my choice of computing platform...
This is a heartfelt plea...I have dealt with morons like the parent poster for over a decade. It never ends. I don't know what drives these people(or is it you?) to perpetually carp on about us 'Mac-Heads'...I have never gone out of my way to insult linux-users or Windows-users and have only done so sparingly, in response to trolls. How insecure is the rest of the computing population that they feel compelled to ridicule people who choose to use a Mac -- insulting them at every turn, and then accusing them of being elitist or some other B.S.
I use a Mac because I get my work done -- regardless of what it cost me...and that is my choice -- and a good one that has clothed, fed, and housed my family for many years in the past, and many years to come.
What part of the fabric of society has frayed to the point that abuse of a minority is fashionable...Grow up, back off, and let's just try to get along somewhere in the middle.
Thank you for listening...
Those who live in Mac houses... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's especially unfortunate that you don't like being called an elitist, when everything from Apple's ads to pricing is pitched at elites. You don't think it's the Volkswagon Beetle of computers, now, do you? (I'm referring to the cheap VW Bug of yesterday, obviously, not the expensive mutation built today for elites--and featuring an iPod deal right now, LOL!)
I bought my Mac for various reasons, and people can think whatever they please. But one thing is certain: Apple designs and markets its machines for a niche audience, not for Everyperson, and that strategy invites invidious response just as all expensive goods do. Why pretend otherwise?
Nice! (Score:3, Insightful)
For a minute there, (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, that would rock. Apple, are you listening?
Re:For a minute there, (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:For a minute there, (Score:5, Interesting)
The iPod is small enough (or thereabouts), lasts long enough (I'd imagine), has enough features, (though vorbis audio support would rock), and enough space (there abouts). What it doesn't have is enough convenience.
When introduced, ipod + itunes were dramatically more convenient than their brethren, and rightfully won in the marketplace. Now, they need to continue to evolve to maintain that lead.
Consider: palm pilots need to be charged / sync'd. Cellphones need to be charged and sometimes sync'd. Digital audio players need to be charged / sync'd. All of this introduces clutter and inconvenience; it's time to move forward. The ritual of coming home, plugging in all your gear, running some software, and then getting on with your evening has become familiar to many of us, but is no more reasonable a way to conduct business than using Office out of habit.
While the ipod has come a long way, it has a long way to go in terms of convenience. Bluetooth networking, in combination with magnetic induction chargers provides the technical foundation for another leap ahead in usability. Nobody will begrudge a company a bit of one-time-setup hassle such as plugging in an ipod to grab a few dozen gig of music. But consider the long-term convenience of having a device that you can toss in a corner and expect it to just do the right thing. Personal electronics should enhance and adapt to my lifestyle, not require me to adapt my lifestyle to my gadgets. Having to periodically be within a few feet of a power outlet and a firewire or USB jack is not the right way to interact with one's gear.
A PDA or cellphone or music player or whatever else comes along should be more aware of its surroundings. It should notice when it is in range of its home network and should download new music, new contacts, new appointments or avantgo info, whatever it needs. When it finds itself on a little charging mat, it should charge. When I pick it up in the middle of a transfer and walk away, it should deal with it seamlessly, without complaint or error.
Apple made the first leap; others have followed. It's time for them to move again.
Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)
Now, that would rock. Apple, are you listening?
Wow, I'll bet Steve Jobs is reading your Slashdot post right now thinking "wireless! Damn, why didn't I think of that!".
Re:For a minute there, (Score:4, Interesting)
iPod longevity (Score:5, Interesting)
It's been a while since the iPod came out, and it still seems to be one of the best MP3 players out there. So what's next? Seems like more storage doesn't make a difference at some point (ooh 15,000 songs instead of 10,000).
Re:iPod longevity (Score:5, Informative)
Oh wait, they already did that [google.com].
Re:iPod longevity (Score:5, Insightful)
However, I still appreciate the looks that I get walking to class with my 30GB; I sure wouldn't want to become just "one of the crowd"
Re:iPod longevity (Score:3, Interesting)
There's a lot of hipsters out there.
Re:iPod longevity (Score:4, Interesting)
well, you're working under the assumption that the hipster label shirt is the same as the fruit of the loom shirt. of course you are correct (as a side note, tommy hilfiger actually manufactures nothing. not a damn thing. they just license manufacturers to put the log on their shirts.).
given the features (storage, connectivity, price &c) the ipod is actually fairly reasonably price. you can find comprable players for maybe ten or twenty per cent less but that's a very thin margin compared to the fashion industry!
Re:iPod longevity (Score:3, Interesting)
So how about a color LCD screen? Backlighting is good, but I hate monochrome when they can do better.
Re:iPod longevity (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps, just for you, they will come out with a color plasma screen version. With a thick cord that tethers it to the big 70 pound lead-acid battery that you wheel around in a cart.
Mercy!
Re:iPod longevity (Score:3, Funny)
Of course not! I was thinking of one of those gas-powered portable generators, with keyed ignition, naturally.
Re:iPod longevity (Score:4, Interesting)
More importantly, will RIAA now subpoena the list of people who bought the large iPods to prosecute them?
Re:Video iPod (Score:3, Funny)
Heck, each unit could ship on it's own pallet.
Clarification: Not all of them have BT & WiFi (Score:4, Informative)
I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:5, Funny)
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Oh well, I guess opinions change.
Seriously though, the ipod is great...
Maan
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:5, Interesting)
It would be interesting for
I particularly like the Apple share holder who was upset at the pricing...that it won't sell because it was $400, not $200. I suppose teh same share holder is pretty happy the high margin audio player is the #1 digital music device in the world.
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:5, Insightful)
It is pricey, but so are Plasma TVs. If it's out of your price range, it isn't for you. It's for the millions of people who do buy them. It's ok to not want to buy something, for whatever reasons. I have an Archos mp3 player, it has 6GB of storage. It has good battery life, it's integration is mediocre and it's footprint is fairly large. It still works perfectly fine for me, as it's just a USB hard drive and I don't need iTunes to listen to music.
The iPod isn't for me. I'm ok with that.
I don't need to post a comment bitching about something I'm not going to buy, though. But, if everybody didn't do that there would only be about 15 comments under this story.
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh, and I get to carry a crapload of my music around at the same time, which means I'm more likely to actually have the thing with me most of the time.
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:5, Funny)
It worked for this guy... [theonion.com]
Re:I thought the IPod was "Lame" (Score:4, Informative)
I disbelieve. There are two heuristics to tell if something is over-priced. The first is: nobody buys the thing, or you sell fewer than you expected. The second is: you have *reliable* marketing research tells you that a lower price would sell you more than enough additional units to make up for the reduced price. I don't think it's always easy to justify the second course of action. If we pretend that the gross profit on an iPod is about $100, than a $50 reduction in price would halve that number, and we would have to sell twice as many of them to make up the difference. I think you can see the risk here. The iPod is the best seller in its category, and while you can find cheaper hard-drive based players, nobody has come out with a clearly better one. I think the nominal prices will drift down over the next couple of years, but the real price will (and has) sunk like a stone. The original iPod was 5 MB for $500. The top-of-the-line model is now 40 MB (8 times the capacity) and comes with much better interface options. That's huge real improvement in 3 years...
Where are the PowerBooks? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Where are the PowerBooks? (Score:5, Interesting)
If the new AlBook 15 doesn't have at least FX 5200 video, I'll probably buy a marked-down TiBook instead.
Notice that the pricing is in Pounds, not Dollars (Score:5, Informative)
Still not a bad price, considering what you get. I'll probably settle for more RAM for my iMac rather than replacing it with one of these, but it's an awfully nice machine.
Geez, why not point to the Apple site instead? (Score:5, Informative)
New iMacs [apple.com]
Bluetooth&Airport only included in High End iM (Score:4, Informative)
Make sure you order your internal Bluetooth module with your iMac, it can't be added later on (you'll need to use an external Bluetooth-USB-Dongle...).
iMagine... (Score:4, Funny)
Ipod question (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm not trying to knock Ipods- I'd actually really like to know if anyone does have that many MP3s etc. I think my entire CD collection would fit several times over in that much space.
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Re:Ipod question (Score:5, Insightful)
I know some people out there actually use their iPods as part of their DJ ensemble. Whereas a typical song may only be 3-4 minutes, a decent trance mix may last half an hour or so. Have a trance section in your iPod, a drum and bass section, house, trip-hop, and you'll see that it fills up rather quickly.
Re:Ipod question (Score:5, Informative)
Mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Martin Studio Slashdot Policy [martin-studio.com]
Not to mention 10,000,000 songs downloaded (Score:5, Interesting)
The real news here is that since April 28th when the iTunes Music Store opened, there have been more than 10,000,000 songs downloaded by the US Apple consumer base runing OS 10.1 and iTunes 4. Very impressive in my opinion. The 10,000,000th song was "Complicated" and was sold on September 3rd. Apple stated they are selling 500,000 songs per week.
The first week Apple stated they sold 1,000,000 songs so that plus half a million a week after corroberates the 10 MM song claim and shows a steady rate.
It would be interesting to know how BuyMusic.com is doing with their knowck off...especially after all the bad press and sites like BoycottBuyMusic.com [boycottbuymusic.com] and DontBuyMusic.com [dontbuymusic.com] have exposed some shady dealings with artists, consumers, and their advertising.
And Apple a day keeps Windows at bay
I'm waiting for the model with mic/line in (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, with a mic in, you'll be able to use Apple's speech recognition software to give it voice commands -- no more fuddling around with menus, just speak into the mic: "iPod, play Smashing Pumpkins, album Gish" or something like that.
Re:I'm waiting for the model with mic/line in (Score:3, Informative)
No, there's no actual proof that they're ever going to make one, but c'mon, isn't it the obvious next step?
You can have this now, from Neuros [neurosaudio.com] - plus FM in and out, and swappable HD or flash "sleds" to boot. I'm seriously considering buying one.
I just started using Bluetooth (Score:5, Informative)
I'm now very seriously considering getting a car speaker set for my vehicle and I'm certain my next PDA will have bluetooth. My next laptop will probably be a Powerbook and I hope they have bluetooth built in by then because I'm going to want it. It's one of those nifty technologies you wonder why you didn't bother with before.
Oh, if you do have a Nokia phone, their Nokia Connection Manager software is a bit hit/miss as to whether it will work with a given bluetooth device. Doesn't work with my T30 but I've been able to work around it. YMMV.
Re:I just started using Bluetooth (Score:4, Informative)
Bluetooth is standard on the 12 inch and 17 inch powerbooks; you have to buy an adaptor to use it on the 15 inch ones, but everyone expects that will change at MacWorld Paris.
The BT integration in OS X is fantastic. It works with a lot of different devices [apple.com], and all the functionality that you talk about in your post is built in - no third party tools required. iSync syncs contacts [apple.com] via Bluetooth (and for your iPod etc, just not wireless
The other cool thing is connecting via GPRS via Bluetooth. You can have a semi-fast totally wireless connection without even getting your phone out of your bag, just your computer.
-- james
Re:I just started using Bluetooth (Score:3, Informative)
While I'm at it, I guess it would be pretty hard not to mention Salling Clicker [mac.com], the most awesome little Bluetooth app I've seen. You can effectively control your mac through your phone because of this - it can run scripts to do all kinds of stuff, from presentations to controlling iTunes and DVD player. You can create more scripts through AppleScript too. The sky is the limit!
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ipod (Score:5, Funny)
And here I am with an out-dated 30GB ipod....
Maybe it's time for those pitchforks and flaming torches again....
Please Apple, (Score:3, Insightful)
Could you please just make a PDA already? [apple.com]
If anything, it will force other PDA makers to keep up with you and we call can have better products.
Audio in (Score:3, Interesting)
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH! What?!? No audio input? (Score:3, Interesting)
This is what everyone is screaming for! (at least I am)
I mean, what with Sony being paranoid with their MD format, the market is screaming for a digital recorder that you can actually use.
Why is this so hard for Apple to understand.
-- I drank WHAT!!??!! , Socrates
Great use for 802.11 & || bluetooth on ipods (Score:4, Interesting)
Just imagine how cool it would be to share your music and playlists with any other ipod user within range. Tired of your own collection? Try listening to Bob's ipod 4 seats behind you.
The register has also thought about this - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28467.htm
What do people think? I would love this, but there are - erm - interesting legal aspects..
Still no radio?!? (Score:3)
It has kept me from buying an Ipod until now. Once Irivers IHP-100 gets a larger harddisk (min. 15GB) I'll buy one of those.
About $35 (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Still no radio?!? (Score:3, Funny)
The "insert technology here" ready con (Score:5, Insightful)
Just a thought... (Score:5, Interesting)
The 40GB ipod would hold $10,000 dollars worth of songs. That's a little too much change to be carrying around in you pocket don't you think. You could get mugged for that kinda dough.
Mugger: hand me you wallet.... no wait, Say, that's one of em new 40GB iPods ain't it, whats that iPod worth.
Guy being mugged: I'd say about 5 grand, it's only half full.
Mugger: Screw the wallet, hand me that iPod.
Re:Just a thought... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Just a thought... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because Company A and Company B both sell proprietary software, this does not make them same in every respect.
Heck, Apple even makes use of open source software and plays fair with open source programmers.
I can't really comment on the lesbians you've been around, except to suggest that perhaps they weren't really lesbians, but instead "adult performers" only claiming to like other women to get you to pay them more.
Current iPod models are Amazon #1 #2 #3 (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t g/browse/-/300330/ref=br_bx_c_1_5/002-8192629-304
When the iPod will come with bluetooth or WIFI? (Score:5, Interesting)
This would allow one to listen to live stream with their iPod. This could also be used to use the iPod as the computer headset so you can ear the system sounds while listening to your music.
Another use (which the RIAA would certainly not approve) would be to allow one to stream it's music to somebody else (make it to one device at a time with not recording feature, so the "industry" is not to grumpy about it) listen to ones tracks.
Accessory? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dual 1.42 DROP?? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Best Buy? (Score:4, Informative)
-A.
Think of it as backup and insurance :D (Score:5, Insightful)
Then there's the fact that my iPod is *also* a backup of my PowerMac, which is worth much more to me than $299; the peace of mind of having a portable bootable backup is immeasurable, short of spending 2 years recreating all the data on my PowerMac.
Sure, there are other hard drive based mp3 players, but none that allow me to boot my PowerMac, and none that allow me to copy my entire music collection onto it in 6 minutes.
Re:Think of it as backup and insurance :D (Score:3, Informative)
*Note, with an iPod, all the music is synched, so I've actually got two backups; my PowerMac is the main copy, the iPod is the backup of my music.
**Data storage is actually cheaper using DVD-Rs than HD, so I archive to DVD
***iPods provide 'offsite' backup insurance, where a 120gb HD does not.
You are so lazy! (Score:4, Insightful)
You could have looked up http://www.xe.com/ucc and done the conversion yourself in less time than it took you to complain about it.
Consider it a reminder that you don't live in the center of the universe, and that there are actually people living elsewhere on this spinning rock that are just as entitled to have their currency represented as you are!
Re:You are so lazy! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes they do (well, sort of) (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Double Bzzzt... you failed to check too (Score:3, Informative)
No base iMac comes with either of these options. Only CTO iMacs do. The fact that Apple just so happens to conveniently put a maxed-out CTO on their store page does not make it stock. You can't buy this iMac at the local Apple Store, nor can you add Bluetooth later if you don't buy the CTO.
Please, moderators, check the information yourself before moderating down because ignorant replies don't bother to
*BSD is dying! (Score:4, Funny)
are you hiring? (Score:5, Funny)
I have experience in copying files of all sizes and can provide references! What's the pay-scale?
I know, don't feed the trolls... but, (Score:3, Funny)
OK, Problem one appears to be that are are using a box that doesn't ship for 3-5 weeks. That tends to make them slow. So in reality I'm guessing that it will take you ($delivery_date + $unpacking_time + $boot_ti
Re:I want a NVRAM iPod (Score:3, Insightful)
Apple can cram 40GB into this device for far less than it'd cost for an NVRAM device of the same capacity.
Re:IE (Score:3, Informative)