New iPods

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:53 pm 0

Oh the touch looks fantastic. Having bought a new laptop though I'm gonna have to hang back until I actually get a job though

Seriously sexy though

Cheers

Bubba

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:00 pm 0

Suckers.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07 ... ewton.html

sty · Post by **sty** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:49 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:
sty wrote:OOh, that looks nice how big is the compressed file? is it the full show?

any idea what the show is called so I can search it out.
Yeah it's the Essex University show, "Rock Goes To College". I think it was Muttley and Rod who pointed it out. It was here:

http://live-bootleg.blogspot.com/search?label=AC/DC

But if you can't get it I can probably host it somewhere for a little while.

It's 300Mb as a re-encoded MP4. It's 30minute made-for-TV footage so the quality is superb.

Thanks mate, I'm trying to download it now at work, be interesting to see if I get it all down - quite often I lose connections when downloading large files and I have no idea how they tell the difference between play stuff and work stuff.

Interestingly the download is 289M so looks like no real change in size for this file.

I'm going to grab VisualHub tonight if I remember and do an encode of LiveAfterDeath to see how that looks.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:29 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:Suckers.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07 ... ewton.html

Believe it when I see it.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:26 am 0

Acronym wrote:
Kemper_Boyd wrote:Suckers.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07 ... ewton.html
Believe it when I see it.

agreed.

I can see the Touch getting integrated with .Cal and Address Book with syncing between updates you do on the iTouch and it all happening by the backdoor.

I can see Apple going super micro laptop before they go PDA like that

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:18 am 0

I think it's more likely than not. The hardware necessary to put
a PC in your pocket is coming soon. Most other PC manufacturers
will use it why wouldn't Apple?

Intel's original UMPC designs were a kludge based upon Centrino.
They are too large, too expensive, and too power hungry. McCaslin
helps a bit and allows products like the Eee. Next year's Menlow
platform will be better; faster and lower power, and allow much smaller
designs. Moorestown after that is a SoC design which will take integration
even further.

Virtually all the initial UMPC designs were Windows devices. They
did not sell very well. Virtually all the demos since then have been
Linux based. Intel appears to have given up on Microsoft doing a
good job providing software for such systems. Who do you think
is likely to best understand the pocketable niche?

Obviously we won't know anything for sure until Apple announces
it but I would be astonished if OS X isn't running on the Menlow
platform right now. I don't know whether Apple will go for it but
I bet they are kicking the tires and thinking about what may be.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:03 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:I think it's more likely than not. The hardware necessary to put
a PC in your pocket is coming soon. Most other PC manufacturers
will use it why wouldn't Apple?

Intel's original UMPC designs were a kludge based upon Centrino.
They are too large, too expensive, and too power hungry. McCaslin
helps a bit and allows products like the Eee. Next year's Menlow
platform will be better; faster and lower power, and allow much smaller
designs. Moorestown after that is a SoC design which will take integration
even further.

Virtually all the initial UMPC designs were Windows devices. They
did not sell very well. Virtually all the demos since then have been
Linux based. Intel appears to have given up on Microsoft doing a
good job providing software for such systems. Who do you think
is likely to best understand the pocketable niche?

Obviously we won't know anything for sure until Apple announces
it but I would be astonished if OS X isn't running on the Menlow
platform right now. I don't know whether Apple will go for it but
I bet they are kicking the tires and thinking about what may be.

I'm sure you're right about OS X running on Menlow but I was about to point out that I can't see Apple releasing a product to this market as it's of no real interest to anybody outside the "Geekhood";

however they've made the Smartphone relevant to the masses so who knows.

Personally I don't see the time as right, maybe they'll see what everyone else does with the MS cookie cutter designs and then come up with something completely off the wall and brilliant, or maybe the time is right now.

I could see them sneak a 160G disk into there though, like the one in the new iPod classic, or even an optional pair ... now that would be interesting.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:14 pm 0

Now, there's a reason I'm dull and Jonathan Ive, well, isn't, but the form-factor feels all wrong. Either I'm going to have to carry it around in a bag - so it's a laptop replacement, which'll murder Tablet PCs but that's not an enormous market - or I want something the size of an iPod which I can carry everywhere.

And the PDA in the range is the iPhone, I guess, so I'm not seeing the niche. Mind you, if Apple announce one, bet you I feel the RDF...

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:00 pm 0

My status has changed to prepared for shipment!

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:08 pm 0

Ooooh! It's shipped.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:10 pm 0

Am I mental for assuming I'll be able to walk into an Apple Store when it opens first thing tomorrow and pick one up?

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:29 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:Am I mental for assuming I'll be able to walk into an Apple Store when it opens first thing tomorrow and pick one up?

I was sort of hoping of doing something similar, just with like a normal shop like comet or paedophile world perhaps? They wont sell out will they, surely!

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:31 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Am I mental for assuming I'll be able to walk into an Apple Store when it opens first thing tomorrow and pick one up?
I was sort of hoping of doing something similar, just with like a normal shop like comet or paedophile world perhaps? They wont sell out will they, surely!

Not if you get there more or less first thing, I guess - I hope. Although that is the Mac equivalent of an alcoholic loitering outside a pub waiting for opening time.

I can wait, I can wait...

slo-mo · Post by **slo-mo** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:33 pm 0

The Apple store in Glasgow has had them for a few days apparently, and the HMV in Edinburgh had 8GB ones today.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:47 pm 0

can anyone recommend a tool for easy preparation of video for it? It seems that mine has shipped too, and I have a trip coming up in the not too distant future too and it'd be nice to prepare a bit