Apple 'Special Event' on September 7th

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I've got a 20GB Ipod and the battery life sucks. My brother has the new 20GB player from sony. He only needs to charge it once every two weeks.

I still love my ipod! Battery life is not that important, I'm at home often enough. With those players like the Sony you will lose your ac adapter because you never use it!
 
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Resistance is weakening.

I have too much music for a 4GB iPod, but I really want one anyway!
 
.hacked said:
I got a black and white one, I don't discriminate.
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LOL, I just watched the Seinfeld with the Black and White Cookie.

I never understood the desire for an FM tuner, because to me the poisnt of having your own tunes in volume like and DAP enables you to have is so you do not need to listen to the BS they play on the radio now. And Cincinnati radio sucks all kinds of ass.
 
mrkgoo said:
On that note, I'm still undecided about the look of iTunes5 - for the most part, I think it's really good, but it's inconsistent witht eh rest of MacOSX - I don't mind the disappearance of the brushed metal (that look is slowly getting old hat), but the squared corners of the window is really quite different for Apple.
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It's actually not brushed metal. It apes the look of Mac OS X mail.app. They may be phasing this look in and ushering brushed metal out.
 
I wonder if this works with Linux. :( I assume it does... but... gah.

This iPod makes me want Mac OS X soooooo badly.
 
Nash said:
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Resistance is weakening.

I have too much music for a 4GB iPod, but I really want one anyway!
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If you don't have *way* too much music, then you can come up with some really good iTunes playlists to tune your collection.

Bit of highly rated, bit of not played, bit of played a lot etc.
 
For me the nice thing about FM and Am is that its Talk radio or things like that when music isnt what you want to listen too. Granted podcasts are awsome. They dont have them for a lot of local stations ones i've been listening to for years. Some of the things they have are so funny they only happen live. So its still nice to have.

As for the player, the nano when its taken apart looks very complicated. It does look like you can break it pretty easily. Or at least snap its guts out. But if the battery is replacable and its got a good life i'm all in. I could see myself having this at work or something for a short walk or somethin.
 
No support for camera connector or microphones.

Also I'm not sure about the dock. It ships with a UDA - universal dock adapter, which might be Apple moving to a standard size for all devices (just release a different UDA with each product). I don't know if it also fits other docks.
 
Just noticed that a Firewire cable is NOT included... however... it is my understand that this is still able to be connected via Firewire, yes?
 
mrklaw said:
If you don't have *way* too much music, then you can come up with some really good iTunes playlists to tune your collection.

Bit of highly rated, bit of not played, bit of played a lot etc.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I have a 40GB iPod already but was considering getting one of these and set-up some Smart Playlists for music recently added, most-played etc. I would have ordered one already if it wasn't for the firewire issue:

Just noticed that a Firewire cable is NOT included... however... it is my understand that this is still able to be connected via Firewire, yes?
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This is still a bit up in the air. Some people have spoken to the Apple Store and they say it will charge and sync by Firewire. Other people say it will only charge by firewire. Apple's site mentions no firewire support at all! It is a standard dock connector, so a firewire lead will plug into it. I'm waiting until someone actually tries it, as I have a Cube which doesn't have USB 2.0.
 
mrklaw said:
No support for camera connector or microphones.

Also I'm not sure about the dock. It ships with a UDA - universal dock adapter, which might be Apple moving to a standard size for all devices (just release a different UDA with each product). I don't know if it also fits other docks.
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where is the lack of camera connector from? it suppoorts photos and has a dock connector.. who said it doesn't support the camera connector?
 
borghe said:
where is the lack of camera connector from? it suppoorts photos and has a dock connector.. who said it doesn't support the camera connector?
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it supports photos and has a dock connector - so you can sync with itunes/photoshop album and look at photos.

guess they just removed host funcitonality type stuff, like the mic stuff. Cleaned out whats not essential to keep the size down?

Bit of a bummer, as it would have been a neat photo storage device, but I can still use my 40GB photo for that.
 
weird and a bummer. also makes me completely NOT regret my photo purchase on monday. :P A big selling feature of the photo to me is being able to go on vacation with just my camera and ipod as the only gadgets so when I run out of room on the camera I can offload it to the photo. I took an entire laptop setup to japan with me this spring for that exact reason. using just an ipod is 100 times more convenient.

oh well. nano is still hot. doubt the people interested in it will care.
 
That black Nano would look sweet next to my PSP, but 4 GB is not enough for me, so I'll see what they have in store for the 5G iPod. Eventually.
 
Kurashima said:
Hmmm... According to Ipod Lounge, the sound quality is similar to the non-shuffle iPods in that it has the weak bass. That's dissapointing, but I think I'll still get one.
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That's a bummer if they still use the same amp module from the old ipods. I don't care much about the bass strenght, but if it still has the same poor signal/noise ratio, that's a huge bummer :( I'm not even that demanding but I can hear the noise clearly with decent earbuds on old ipods.
 
I know it's flash but... c'mon... no Firewire??!!

Stop catering to these Windows pricks!!! (who write your mealticket) :D
 
Apple Jax said:
(who write your mealticket) :D
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:lol :lol

I seriously wonder what the ratio of windows owners to mac owners is.

in all seriousness though, firewire connectivity means a firewire controller on board. even an integrated firewire/USB controller means extra transistors for the firewire portion. I imagine this was geared more towards the size concerns than price or manufacturing.
 
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