60GB iPod Coming?

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Posted by pudge on Wednesday June 2, 2004 @04:34PM from the yes-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Toshiba today announced that it will offer a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard drive in the coming months and that Apple has already placed its order. Cindy Lee, deputy manager of Toshiba's hard disk drive division, said the drive will enter mass production during July or August. All three iPod models (15GB, 20GB, and 40GB) use Toshiba drives, while the iPod mini uses a 4GB 1-inch drive from Hitachi. Lee noted that Toshiba is currently shipping 350,000 of the 1.8-inch drives per month to Apple."

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You mean? by nighty5 · 2004-06-02 16:36 · Score: 4, Funny

I have to upgrade my 40g ipod already!?!

Im only hovering on 5g of songs!
1. Re:You mean? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 19:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Sexy, yeah. Sexy like Steve Ballmer.
Re:Too much space! by sexecutioner · 2004-06-02 16:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Fill it with porn of course!
Re:Enough is Enough by Garrett+Combs · 2004-06-02 16:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Also, an external backup solution doesn't make your stomach sink when you get a ding or scratch on the casing.

I hate scratches. :(

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Re:Enough is Enough by Wesley+Felter · 2004-06-02 16:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Let me be the first to say "40GB is enough for anyone".

So maybe the 60GB drive is for the mythical video iPod. (Not.)
Re:Too much space! by mlk · 2004-06-02 16:46 · Score: 1, Funny

But Apple don't do video yet.

Mmmm iPod2, the icPorn.

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Sure hope... by ErichTheWebGuy · 2004-06-02 16:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Sure hope that this does not infringe on some Microsoft patent... They just might have a patent on "a mobile computing device with capacity greater than 50 gigabytes"... These days, you just never know.

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1. Re:Sure hope... by baywulf · 2004-06-02 17:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No. Microsoft only has a patent on "a mobile computing device with 640 KB capacity that should be enough for everybody"
Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 16:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Lets get this out of the way:

1. 60GB?!? Who would ever use that much space?
2. 60GB?!? Thank god, I'm out of space on my 40GB.
3. Does it support Ogg?
4. Stop whining about Ogg!
5. Apple rules!
6. Apple sucks/is dying/is out of touch!
7. Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
8. The Nomad/Muvo/two cans and a stick are just as good or better.
9. I, for one, welcome our excessive HD space Overlords
10. In Soviet Russia 60GB iPods buy You!
1. Re:Here we go again... by BodyCount07 · 2004-06-02 17:06 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't forget:
  
  11. I don't have ears, you insensitive clod!
  
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2. Re:Here we go again... by .com+b4+.storm · 2004-06-02 17:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  11. Let's get this out of the way...
  
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Re:Woohoo! by tm2b · 2004-06-02 17:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks. I can afford it because Red Hat bought my company in 2000.

Twit.

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Re:Enough is Enough by aixou · 2004-06-02 17:03 · Score: 5, Funny

128kbps MP3 files ripped in 1999
Ahh, good ol napster.
Re:Too much space! by CaptainFrito · 2004-06-02 17:05 · Score: 5, Funny

What's next? an 80G iPod?!?
Next thing you know cops will pull you over just to scan through your iPod's storehouse looking for pirated music. No doubt someone will die choking on the iPod he frantically tried to swallow...
Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 17:12 · Score: 1, Funny

This might not seem like a big deal, but when I'm travelling, especially when I'm flying my Cherokee 180-D across country, I won't be able to anticipate what I'll really want to listen to - and I invariably want to hear something that I didn't bring along.

Well, there's always the control tower to listen to, if you can be bothered...
Re:July or August, eh? by WasterDave · 2004-06-02 17:18 · Score: 4, Funny

3GHz G5's wouldn't be a surprise. What would be a surprise would be if anyone was actually able to buy one before 2005.

Dave

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Now that's Paranoia! by mbessey · 2004-06-02 17:27 · Score: 5, Funny

"Encrypted backup disk images of digital pictures of friends, family, myself"

Wow. What kinda tinfoil-beanie wearing nutjob do you have to be to encrypt your family photos? Who're your family, the Sopranos or the Bin Ladens?
1. Re:Now that's Paranoia! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 18:22 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Maybe they're real ugly like.
2. Re:Now that's Paranoia! by mgs1000 · 2004-06-03 02:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Because they aren't really pictures of his family, he's just afraid to admit that he keeps backups of his favorite pr0n.
3. Re:Now that's Paranoia! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-03 03:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "family photos" means "nude pics of my wife"
4. Re:Now that's Paranoia! by Eponymous,+Showered · 2004-06-03 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No, but he's married to Asia Carrera, is Jenna Jameson's brother and Ron Jeremy's son.
Gimme an OGG by Crypto+Gnome · 2004-06-02 17:32 · Score: 1, Funny

Anyone remember this?

Waitress Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and OGG; egg bacon and OGG; egg bacon sausage and OGG; OGG bacon sausage and OGG; OGG egg OGG OGG bacon and OGG; OGG sausage OGG OGG bacon OGG tomato and OGG;
Vikings OGG OGG OGG OGG...
Waitress ...OGG OGG OGG egg and OGG; OGG OGG OGG OGG OGG OGG baked beans OGG OGG OGG...
Vikings OGG! Lovely OGG! Lovely OGG!

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Re:Enough is Enough by localman · 2004-06-02 17:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Because you hopefully have better things to do than to rerip your whole CD collection for an improvement so small you can't possibly notice it while listenting through consumer headphones with your computer on in the background?

But I shouldn't talk. I'm actually considering the same thing since I don't have anything better to do :)

Cheers.
Re:Too much space! by UniverseIsADoughnut · 2004-06-02 17:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Do you have a RAID 5 array of iPods?

Someone must be able to do this, people RAID'ed floppy drives on a mac, why not iPods.
Re:Too much space! by UniverseIsADoughnut · 2004-06-02 17:53 · Score: 2, Funny

nah, they will got right to 60x2==120gig or some crazy shit. Just to mess with people. "Gen 4 iPod:now with RAID 0"
"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 17:54 · Score: 4, Funny
Look folks, it's simple enough. "Alot" is NOT A WORD. You mean "a lot". That's TWO WORDS. Repeat after me - "alot" is not a word, it is a lazy mistake. "allllllllot" is not a word, it is a symptom of really believing, wrongly, that "alot" is a word and proceeding to spell it without using the space bar.

Can we at least try to spell things the right way? Let's have some coherent discourse, and leave the typos at home.
- loose is the opposite of "tight". It is not the same word as "lose".
- lose is the opposite of "win". It is not the same word as "loose".
- alot is not a word. You either meant "a lot" (many of) or "allot" (allocate).
- embiggen is not a word, not even a perfectly cromulent word. Homer Simpson made it up.
- irregardless is not a word, it's an word that idiots use because they think it makes them look clever. "regardless" would be fine. "irrespective" would be fine. But no, you have to show the world what an idiot you are.
- virii is not a word. It is not slang. It is not jargon. It is WRONG. It is wrong in every possible way. It's not English, it's not Latin, it's not understood by anybody with an education, it's not understood by anyone except people who already know it's wrong. It is not going to be adopted any time soon. Stop using it.
Show the world you care about good communication. Fucking learn to communicate coherently. Classical music my fucking arse, you can't even spell.
1. Re:"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 18:53 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Please add 'definitely' to your list. It's not 'definately', 'defenatly', or any of the other myriad rapings of the word seen her regularly.
2. Re:"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD! by brodin · 2004-06-02 19:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Jeez, what a looser. Irregardless of this I noticed that Windows embiggens all the virii on my boxen.
3. Re:"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD! by dasmegabyte · 2004-06-03 02:34 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Boxen actually is a word. It's used to test retardation in adults.
  
  DOCTOR: You have 1 box. A friend gives you another box. How many do you have?
  PATIENT: Um...2 boxen! It said 'Windows 98 or better' so I installed Linux! Tux si a very cute mascot! Friends don't let friends install Windows! Lol! Bill Gates is a borg lol!
  DOCTOR: Nurse, we found another one.
  
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4. Re:"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD! by BK425 · 2004-06-03 02:35 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I love that, a grammar rant in the forum where I first learned that Haxored was a word but only if you put numbers in it. I love the smell of irony in the morning. My pet non word is probly. There, I typed it : ) probly probly probly probly. Ie "Don't put on that blood pressure cuff it would probly explode."
where's mine?? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 18:13 · Score: 1, Funny

come on dammit! the hardware is supposed to be free!!
Re:Drives? by martingunnarsson · 2004-06-02 18:33 · Score: 3, Funny

India? :-)

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Re:Too much space! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-02 19:26 · Score: 1, Funny

No, only a beowulf cluster of iPods. You can only imagine.
Re:In the Year 2012 . . . by IntelliTubbie · 2004-06-02 22:39 · Score: 3, Funny

What are you going to do with your terabyte iPod?

Easy -- listen to the newly-released Duke Nukem Forever soundtrack.

Cheers,
IT

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Pah! 60 GB? That's nothing. MS xPod will top it! by michaeldot · 2004-06-02 22:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft's xPod will have 600 GB! It will go for 8 months on a single charge, and cost less than $50.

Hell, we may even give them away in cereal packets!

Please wait for it and don't go buying one of those silly white iPods. Our xPod will be black. Black is cool! It will run super-DRM, hyper-product activated music in the form of the industry standard (it's a STANDARD okay... or else) WMA, which is what everyone wants, in the sense of "here's where you're going today" kind of wants.

And no, there is no truth that WMA stands for "We May Ask for your first child." Who do you think we are, bloodsucking vampires or something. (Looks like we'll have to start using smaller print on the EULAs.)

Oh please please please wait for the Microsoft xPod. I wanna be just like you Steve. I've even started to wear turtlenecks and say "phenomenal" all the time... We wants it, the precious.