Yeah, that is a Hewlett-Packard being used by Mr. Jobs and Ms. Keys. Thank God I didn't get one of those.
And the new iPod doesn't look half-bad. The battery improvements are good to hear, and the added 5 gigabytes for the same $299 don't hurt. I'll still be happy with my third-generation iPod, but I'll try one of these out at the Apple Store next chance.
"The new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges?a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power."
I hope there's a firmware update for older iPods. I want diligent conservation of power! I'm so glad the battery life is going up.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the Apple iPod story is plastered all ov MSNBC? Or that the picture os SJ using a computer is of SJ on a Wintel. Odd.
and you'd stare at them continuously to make it worth it im sure
1) If you shuffle by song, you just might.
2) You don't look at the screen continuously right now and somehow the interface is touted as the iPod's greatest feature. A color screen could enhance this.
now, would someone mind telling me when they started telling people NOT to use the iPod as a startup disk? wasn't that one of the main selling points of the first gen iPod? what changed? i mean, i'd like it as a music player and a "save-my-ass" device. if i can't put a startup volume and disk utilities on it, i may just go for the 20 GB variety, since i don't have THAT many songs to put on it.
They work fine as an emergency disk. Running hours and hours could overheat the drive, though. I've got a bare-bones install of 10.3 on my 20 gig iPod, and I've booted off it a couple of times, long enough to run DiskWarrior, and to poke around and see how well it works. A half hour here and ther is really no big deal.
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
jeez. i remember not too long ago when 100 MB ZIP disks were roomy for Mac OS installs
They work fine as an emergency disk. Running hours and hours could overheat the drive, though. I've got a bare-bones install of 10.3 on my 20 gig iPod, and I've booted off it a couple of times, long enough to run DiskWarrior, and to poke around and see how well it works. A half hour here and ther is really no big deal.
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
ahaa. that's what i wanted to hear. yes, i really want it to act as a the occasional eemergency disk when callled into action, with my swiss army knife collection of os x utilties. i do know that if you reformat the ipod without the ipod software, it's toast, so sayeth apple (and as experienced by someone on these very boards), so maybe they're just trying to curb people from accidentally treating it as just a firewire disk and hosing the operating system off of it.
As I predicted, an evolutionary step for this 4th gen iPod. A drop of $100 is welcomed, and I hope this signals an upcoming price drop for the mini to $199 (although unlikely given the demand).
If reports of improved battery is true, that's also good news. But one hopes in this revision, they've made the unit accessable for replacing a battery as well.
News magazines and other weeklies always put the following week's date on the cover. Monthly mags put the following month (of release) on the cover. This has been traditional since the beginning of time (pun intended).
Unfortunately, this may be unknown to some because they rarely read publications on a regular basis.
Comments
Originally posted by TWinbrook46636
What's up with Appleinsider? Do they sleep weekends?
The webmasters took the weekend to renew their MCSE certs
Originally posted by NittanyLionTosh
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457432/site/newsweek/
Is Steve using a PC?? That doesn't look like a PowerBook.
And the new iPod doesn't look half-bad. The battery improvements are good to hear, and the added 5 gigabytes for the same $299 don't hurt. I'll still be happy with my third-generation iPod, but I'll try one of these out at the Apple Store next chance.
"The new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges?a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power."
I hope there's a firmware update for older iPods. I want diligent conservation of power! I'm so glad the battery life is going up.
I want diligent conservation of power!
A couple of ways to conserve is turn off the lights if you're not in the room as well as any ceiling fans.
Originally posted by applenut
and you'd stare at them continuously to make it worth it im sure
1) If you shuffle by song, you just might.
2) You don't look at the screen continuously right now and somehow the interface is touted as the iPod's greatest feature. A color screen could enhance this.
3) Nice 'tude!
Originally posted by rok
now, would someone mind telling me when they started telling people NOT to use the iPod as a startup disk? wasn't that one of the main selling points of the first gen iPod? what changed? i mean, i'd like it as a music player and a "save-my-ass" device. if i can't put a startup volume and disk utilities on it, i may just go for the 20 GB variety, since i don't have THAT many songs to put on it.
edit: yet here they say you can use it, just don't call us if you screw something up (question 24 on the page). is that the new party line on that issue?
They work fine as an emergency disk. Running hours and hours could overheat the drive, though. I've got a bare-bones install of 10.3 on my 20 gig iPod, and I've booted off it a couple of times, long enough to run DiskWarrior, and to poke around and see how well it works. A half hour here and ther is really no big deal.
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
Originally posted by chris v
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
jeez. i remember not too long ago when 100 MB ZIP disks were roomy for Mac OS installs
Originally posted by chris v
They work fine as an emergency disk. Running hours and hours could overheat the drive, though. I've got a bare-bones install of 10.3 on my 20 gig iPod, and I've booted off it a couple of times, long enough to run DiskWarrior, and to poke around and see how well it works. A half hour here and ther is really no big deal.
I was surprised by how little space it took up. A stripped-down OS without any iApps, foriegn language packs, printer drivers, or developer tools only takes up ~875 mb.
ahaa. that's what i wanted to hear. yes, i really want it to act as a the occasional eemergency disk when callled into action, with my swiss army knife collection of os x utilties. i do know that if you reformat the ipod without the ipod software, it's toast, so sayeth apple (and as experienced by someone on these very boards), so maybe they're just trying to curb people from accidentally treating it as just a firewire disk and hosing the operating system off of it.
and you'd stare at them continuously to make it worth it im sure
iPorn.
If reports of improved battery is true, that's also good news. But one hopes in this revision, they've made the unit accessable for replacing a battery as well.
Originally posted by Altivec_2.0
The date on the cover says the 26th of July, as we all know, it's not quite that yet.
It is often the case that magazines and such are released a week or so before their stated issue date.
Unfortunately, this may be unknown to some because they rarely read publications on a regular basis.