Apples iPod Mp3 player

[MacDEF]

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just so everyone knows, this can only be used with a mac, it will not interface with a pc.

Well, while I would gloat just a wee bit if that were true

I'm willing to bet that it will work just fine with PCs as long as you have a FireWire port. You would just have to use it as a FireWire hard drive and manually drag music files to it.

 

[Neruda]

That thing had BETTER work out of a PC, I am not getting a Mac so that i can use this player!

 

[MacDEF]

Hehehehehe... the irony.

 

[Neruda]

yeah, I know! Spend $2grand on a computer with an interface I don't like so that i can use a $400 player. Life sucks.

 

[MacDEF]

Well, obviously you don't like a good interface...

J/K!

P.S. Or you could spend $799 and get the low-end

$2,000? That's the second-highest model. There are at least six or seven below that. You can even get the top of the line of the coolest laptop in the world (iBook 2001) for $1600 with a combo DVD/CDRW drive!

 

[dngl]

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Originally posted by Neruda yeah, I know! Spend $2grand on a computer with an interface I don't like so that i can use a $400 player. Life sucks.

Aww... cheer up. You'll get used to it. OSX rules!

Just think of it this way: you're getting a $400 player so you can justify getting a new computer!

 

[chadbang]

sorry, double post deleted.

 

[chadbang]

I wake up and there's an ipod staring me in the face! Yes, Apple! (Been a die hard Mac fanatic for years). As usual, the unit is SWEET looking. I wish they had gotten the price down a bit from the start to really boost sales, as the analysists said Apple needed to do to make iPod fly, but true to Apple form the price will probably drop a hundred dollars in six months. Still, unlike many of us, consumers think it's crazy spending $300 (let along $399) on a portable. When I told my best friend I paid $300 for my R900 and that I might have to pay $350 for it in the US, he said: "Who buys these things?!" And he is a young guy, well-off -- so, what WE think is semi-reasonable, a lot of people can't comprehend. That's why $250 dollars for the iPod would have been spectacular. It think that's a truly semi-reasonable price point. Still it's an Apple! It's stainless steel, BTW. I'm glad they went back to basics on that. Titanium scratches too easily to be used on a pocket portable. All I can say is Itunes is great software, firewall blazes and I'm sure the interface is dynamite. NOBODY does human-engineered software better than Apple. Yeah, there's such a profusion of PC software floating around that PC seems enviable at times, but a well-done piece of Apple software, which iPod packs, can't be beat. Sign me up. I'll have one within six months. I was considering that Korean-built player, but it looked like junk. Apple=Style.

 

[leon]

I want it too... not just because I use Macs, but mainly because of the amp output. Someone putting out a product with 30+30mW in 2001, you'd think the sun came up from the west!

All right, so maybe it's not that rare.

The original plan for me was a $300 MD recorder, so I'm happily pondering ditching MD for this thing, even if it's heavier. Also, consider that you can store straight wav files on the iPod if you so wish

I have plans to get a new Mac next fall, so I won't have the necessary "software" until then (I'm on 9.0 now). Hopefully the iPod will have become cheaper by then.

What will the average user think about the lack of equalizer on the iPod itself? Would all the presets on iTunes do the job of convincing them this isn't inferior?

 

[chadbang]

Is iTune 2.0 only for OSX? Grrr...

Mackay Maus has the cube... I'm jealous. I should have bought one before they discontinued it. In hindsight, that was the coolest Mac ever. And with a flat screen...? Forgetaboutit

 

[MacDEF]

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Also, consider that you can store straight wav files on the iPod if you so wish

That's actually what has me thinking twice, Leon

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I have plans to get a new Mac next fall, so I won't have the necessary "software" until then (I'm on 9.0 now).

Actually, I'm pretty sure that iTunes 2 will have both OS X and OS 9 versions.

 

[MacDEF]

For those wondering about hard drive upgrades, don't hold your breath. After doing some reading it turns out the iPod doesn't use 2.5" hard drives like other HD-based players -- the iPod is smaller than those hard drives (it's 2.4 inches wide x 4 inches high by .78 inches thick and weighs 6.5 oz)

It uses brand new 1.8" drives:

http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/produ...002-Over.shtml

They only come in 2GB and 5GB capacities right now, and the 5GB drive *alone* is $399. They weigh only 55grams, and are some of the lowest-power drives available.

Given this, the price of $399 for the iPod is actually pretty amazing. VST is releasing a 5GB FireWire hard drive using one of these drives:
http://www.vsttech.com/Products/Stor...rives/FWFL.asp
and the price of that drive is estimated to be $400 or more. The iPod can act like a hard drive, plus it does everything else

 

[tangent]

For those of you who get TechTV, they gave first-glimpse info this evening (10/24) and promised to have more info on 10/25 during TechLive (daytime hours). Should be educational.

TechTV reported that Apple was kind of evasive on when Windows support would appear.

As for the 1.8" hard drive they use, TechTV took the iPod apart and showed the drive. It's smaller in all three dimensions than a standard 2.5" 9mm laptop drive. It's a closer cousing to the IBM MicroDrive than to 2.5" laptop hard drives.

I agree with the other poster who said you could just drag MP3 files to it like a hard drive, but you'd miss the iTunes interface. Among other things, iTunes does PDA-like synchronization between your PC and the iPod whenever you plug the unit into the PC.

Me wants, me wants!

 

[lextek]

Could you post a link for Tech TV?

thanks,
Bob

 

[tangent]

http://techtv.com/ of course.

While I'm posting links, here's the initial review they did of the iPod:

http://www.techtv.com/products/consu...355757,00.html

Pretty thin on the details, but it does include a link to video of the unveiling.