New iPods

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:23 pm 0

I always said I wanted the iPhone without the phone bit

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It's been a long time since Steve's had any of my loot after a keynote/Apple event but he's just had some of mine

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Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:35 pm 0

Oh Lordy, oh Lordy. Clickety click, I'll have one of them Touchy things. Mmm, touching my thing.

sty · Post by **sty** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:22 pm 0

matt wrote:
GeeZa wrote:
matt wrote:Lossless music and video on a portable unit with earphones?

Overkill?
iTunes is my main music system (via Slimserver) so I can't distinguish between formats for that and an iPod. Quite a few in my situation I guess. Or maybe not?
Ah, I see your predicament. I think it's you ands Sty and maybe a few more.

My predicament is: my collection lives on my 60GB iPod Classic. Can I use that and the iPod Touch on the same installation of iTunes?

Gngh.

I'm fairly flexible these days, I keep all my CDs encoded lossless (AIF) on the central server at home, my G5 machine. I then also have a 128K AAC set of everything on an external drive that sits attached to my laptop at work (currently 70G for about 2/3 of my collection) this then feeds my iPod nano I use in the Gym.

So I've been waiting for a normal iPod, in the slim form factor not the fat buggers that has enough space for the whole music collection compressed to carry around with me - I was guessing when it got to 100G it would be right.

I'm a bit torn now that the touch iPod isn't the 120G one, if I buy that it will just be sitting between my nano and the external disk for usability But I'm tempted for plane trips and trips away, especially as I could encode some films to watch as well, although maybe I should look at doing that on the DSLite and R4. As you can see I don't think Apple have hit my sweeet spot yet, but as a toy it looks ace! wonder how much they are here, I could use it as a nano replacement and make the nano Gym only.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:26 pm 0

Yak wrote:I always said I wanted the iPhone without the phone bit .

It's been a long time since Steve's had any of my loot after a keynote/Apple event but he's just had some of mine .

So was it the 16 gig ?

sty · Post by **sty** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:27 pm 0

Oh Dear - I think this image has just sucked me in

looks like it may become my Nano replacement.

So do I pre-order and get the 10% discount or rely on actually being able to make better than 10% when a cheaper importer comes up.

can I live with 4x my Nano storage?

(probably

)

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:51 pm 0

I dunno if I'm up for the Touch -- originally I wanted it for iPhone-style hackiness, but the small amount of disk space is kind of a loser.

That, and the fact that whenever I am around wifi, I probably have my laptop anyway, kind of makes me gravitate towards the 160GB iPod. Want!

The Touch will probably be better once more wifi shows up (so I can use it on the train instead of WAP) and more storage is added. So I'll be up for the iPod Touch v3, since all the previous iPods took about three revisions to be added to my "Want" list.

Bye bye, 20GB 4G iPod. Hello, 160GB 6G iPod. Still don't like CoverFlow, but Search is quite nice.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:58 pm 0

Deckard wrote:
Yak wrote:I always said I wanted the iPhone without the phone bit .

It's been a long time since Steve's had any of my loot after a keynote/Apple event but he's just had some of mine .
So was it the 16 gig ?

Yep

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Actually I feel a bit guilty now, Dave down the pub was just showing me nis new 4 gig LifeDrive he got today, and I know that in a month's time I'll be down the pub showing off the new 'pod...

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:15 pm 0

Ordered:

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:27 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:Ordered:

I love you very much, GeeZa.

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:39 pm 0

Yak wrote:Actually I feel a bit guilty now, Dave down the pub was just showing me nis new 4 gig LifeDrive he got today, and I know that in a month's time I'll be down the pub showing off the new 'pod...

As with Moore's Law is a harsh lesson we all have to learn at some point. Time waits for no man, technology even less so.

And, thinking about it, 16GB is a stonking amount of space really isn't it? We're all spoiled. I may take this opportunity to have a bit of a spring clean of my iTunes library.

matt

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:41 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:
GeeZa wrote:Ordered:

I love you very much, GeeZa.

Now. I. Wanna. Be Your Pod!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:34 am 0

Damn, the touch is tempting and the price isn't awful and I'm serisouly looking at a video player right now.

And it's my birthday soon....

But I really don't convert stuff to play, I'm lazy. I want to download my Divx/xvid US TV and stream it off my PC. Will it be able to do that, is there stuff that can convert on the fly?

No UK iPhone announcements? The price on that could make my choice eaiser...

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:30 am 0

I've spent all day agonising over this and decided that fuck it! I'm going to buy one.

So now I'm betaing up a local supplier to get one of their allocated stock

cross fingers for tomorrow morning's call

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:55 am 0

Meh, like the wifi, but 16GB won't do me for the main player. As for the nano, the video will be a feature for some, but the size increase is a big downside for many. 8GB tiny-ness was the whole point of the nano - making it bigger means it's more of a pain to lug around while running, riding, swimming, working out in other ways.

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:14 am 0

I still love my 30GB classic iPod. Solid as a rawk.