sportzhead
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My new iPod shipped today. Will let you guys know how it is when it arrives.
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Official "One more thing..." Apple Event thread
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CVXFREAK said:
Doubt we will see any iPod announcements at this one, it's for the pro stuff:
Rumoured stuff:
Dual-core PowerMacs
HD PowerBooks
Photo Pro (new app)
13" widescreen PowerBook to replace the 12"
Airport Express AV
Hope the 13" PowerBook is true, I'd definitely get one of them as my laptop is dying.
Phoenix said:The powerbook line is very dead right now. Extremely poor priceerformance ratio.
Yeah, be interesting to see what they do to them. Whether it will just be a token speedbump (in which case they will stay dead), or if it will something more significant.
Upgrading to the 7448 and increasing the bus speed (they are currently a bit crippled) would see quite a nice jump in performance. There's also the possiblity of built in iSight (they've patented a camera in latch thing), as well as going up to HD resolutions. The question is whether they let the PowerPC range go out with a bang, as decent updates are so long overdue now, or whether they hold off till the Intel switch.
shantyman said:
Widescreen and increased resolution across the range, with support for 720 on the 13" and 1080 on the 15" and 17".
Phoenix
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Nash said:
Yeah. I would hope that they would cram a G5 or a dual core G4 or SOMETHING into them, because without that all the other features are meaningless until the move to Intel. Maybe they will announce/show the Intel powerbooks at the event but not ship them until next year or something. Portables is where the market is hot now, and Apple is in a world of hurt right now.
The sad thing is that even IF they went to HD for the powerbooks, unless they put a G5 in them its going to struggle.... a LOT... to play video at that resolution fullscreen unless they've thrown in some sort of hardware acceleration or something.
Well the fact they are having an event for their pro stuff does imply something surprising is coming. No one really saw the Nano or new iMac coming.
Updates to the PowerMacs are a certainty, so if they go dual-processor/dual-core G5's as expected it will leave the PowerBooks looking even more lacking. So they have to do something decent to them. Fingers crossed!
Updates to the PowerMacs are a certainty, so if they go dual-processor/dual-core G5's as expected it will leave the PowerBooks looking even more lacking. So they have to do something decent to them. Fingers crossed!
They'd never show the intel PB's before they *were* the new powerbooks. The only thing worse than offering a minor bump is offering a minor bump and saying "Here's yet another reason to not buy!"
Expect to see minor bumps in all features across the board (screen, speed, gpu, hdd, etc.).
At this point, Apple is focusing on bumping all other features, as working on those features is not "throw away," like working to cram 2 G4's into a PB would be.
norinrad21
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How would one transfer his ogg files to an ipod.
Would i need to convert it and if so how?
Would i need to convert it and if so how?
Phoenix
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teiresias said:
I have a 3G one and while its not a pain in the ass, its pretty close. The older 3G iPods are heavy enough to make an impression on you while jogging, even while strapped to you. I'd definitely get something smaller if you're doing a lot of physical activity. While you may be able to get away with excercising with it, I found it a definite annoyance.
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teiresias said:
It's not the same amount of money. A 30GB iPod is $50 more than a 4GB Nano. And while that's not a big difference in price, the size difference and 'moving parts' difference really put the two products in different market segments. If you want one for while you're exercising, the Nano is probably your best bet.
Deku Tree said:
It's the same dock connector, but like the Nano there's no firewire controller chip inside anymore. So even though you can plug a firewire lead in, you won't be able to transfer anything.
Cost reasons, lack of demand and a drive to get them as thin as possible all probably play a part in the decision. Bit of a kick in the teeth to Mac owners though, as there's still quite a few Macs in use without USB2.0.
Firewire is much more efficient. Atleast you have USB2.0 though. My Cube and PowerBook are only 1.0 which rules out a new iPod completely.iLounge has a bunch of updates, including 130 photos and top-ten lists for "technies" and "non-techies." You might want to surf over and check it out.AZYUMA86 said:
I was glad to hear that the bass has been improved significantly -- that pretty much cemented my decision to upgrade my 3G 20GB model since I don't care about video (have a PSP for that if I ever want to dabble) and have been out of room FOREVER.
Okay, just got back from spending about five hours with the new iPod (with video) and testing/converting a bunch of video and learned some interesting things.
First up, you can't just drag a file into iTunes and expect it to appear on your iPod. Even though iTunes itself can play most any format Quicktime can, only videos that are in the exact iPod compliant mpeg-4 standard will be transferred to your iPod. Simple, right? Not so. Even standard MPEG-4 files encoded in Quicktime Pro using all the correct settings DID NOT get transferred to the iPod.
The only videos we could get to transfer to the iPod were ones where we chose to export them using a new Quicktime Pro preset called "Export to iPod" that is available. This creates a video that uses the highest bitrate (around 700Kbps) file at 320x(whatever). The videos looked awesome but the preset is not customizable in any way. It does automatically preserve the aspect ratio though, which is nice.
We tried creating MPEG-4 and H.264 videos in FFMPEG, MENCODER and a couple of other compliant tools but none of those files would ever be transferred to the iPod by iTunes.
Readers on iPodLounge.com also discovered that videos generated from PSPWare are also compatible with the iPod, and iTunes WILL sync those. Although, the resulting videos from PSPWare are not as good as those that come from the "Export to iPod" Quicktime profile.
Another user stumbled upon a program called Videora iPod Converter for Windows but hadn't tried it yet. It may also work.
In any case, it seems that the .m4v files generated by Quicktime Pro (and PSPWare) may have unique headers that the iPod (and iTunes) checks for before allowing the videos to appear on the iPod. So be warned.
If you're on a Mac and don't have Quicktime Pro, the "Export to iPod" option will also appear within any program that allows Quicktime export such as iMovie and Final Cut.
Another strange thing about iTunes: If you right click a video and choose "Get Info" and switch to the "Options" tab you'll find an option to set whether the video is a Movie or Music Video. Setting this to music video will allow you to sort those separately. Yet, there is no option to set a video as "TV Show" or "Podcast". :/
First up, you can't just drag a file into iTunes and expect it to appear on your iPod. Even though iTunes itself can play most any format Quicktime can, only videos that are in the exact iPod compliant mpeg-4 standard will be transferred to your iPod. Simple, right? Not so. Even standard MPEG-4 files encoded in Quicktime Pro using all the correct settings DID NOT get transferred to the iPod.
The only videos we could get to transfer to the iPod were ones where we chose to export them using a new Quicktime Pro preset called "Export to iPod" that is available. This creates a video that uses the highest bitrate (around 700Kbps) file at 320x(whatever). The videos looked awesome but the preset is not customizable in any way. It does automatically preserve the aspect ratio though, which is nice.
We tried creating MPEG-4 and H.264 videos in FFMPEG, MENCODER and a couple of other compliant tools but none of those files would ever be transferred to the iPod by iTunes.
Readers on iPodLounge.com also discovered that videos generated from PSPWare are also compatible with the iPod, and iTunes WILL sync those. Although, the resulting videos from PSPWare are not as good as those that come from the "Export to iPod" Quicktime profile.
Another user stumbled upon a program called Videora iPod Converter for Windows but hadn't tried it yet. It may also work.
In any case, it seems that the .m4v files generated by Quicktime Pro (and PSPWare) may have unique headers that the iPod (and iTunes) checks for before allowing the videos to appear on the iPod. So be warned.
If you're on a Mac and don't have Quicktime Pro, the "Export to iPod" option will also appear within any program that allows Quicktime export such as iMovie and Final Cut.
Another strange thing about iTunes: If you right click a video and choose "Get Info" and switch to the "Options" tab you'll find an option to set whether the video is a Movie or Music Video. Setting this to music video will allow you to sort those separately. Yet, there is no option to set a video as "TV Show" or "Podcast". :/
AZ Greg
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Thanks for the news about iLounge -jinx- and thanks for the impressions ckohler. 
I just want to know if my already converted shows for PSP will work straight away with this iPod. I guess there is no way to find out without actually buying one. =/
Also if these MP4s I have for my PSP don't work with this iPod is there a program I can use to make them work? Thanks. Not really savy when it comes to video converting.
I just want to know if my already converted shows for PSP will work straight away with this iPod. I guess there is no way to find out without actually buying one. =/
Also if these MP4s I have for my PSP don't work with this iPod is there a program I can use to make them work? Thanks. Not really savy when it comes to video converting.
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