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iPod Generation 4 Released
I_am_Rambi writes "According to MSNBC "The considerably tweaked fourth-generation iPod will roll out this week, and Newsweek got an advance peek. It looks a bit different, operates more efficiently, has a few more features and costs less. Here are the highlights...." Improved battery life, upto 12 hours, a click wheel, more efficient menus, multiple on the go play list, and probably one of the best changes is a lower price. $399 (down from $499) for a 40 gig, $299 (down from $399) for a 20 gig, and there are no 15 gig versions." And you can read Apple's iPod site for the full details.
Slashdot nerds will complain that iPod's do not have OGG support and are thus evil and should never be purchased.
Nice job Hemos. Sentences should a main verb.
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There certainly is a firmware update, and in keeping with Apple's general update policy, it will only cost around $399. Now you can't ask much fairer than that.
Mmh, hotcakes /homer simpson
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while there is a beautiful iPod icon is actually a bit weird, but hey, this is Slashdot.
"you could fly from Sydney to Singapore and still have hours of listening time left over as you stroll the Champs Elysée."
I think the Australian 'localisation team' need to do better than a find and replace of 'New York' & 'Paris'...
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I just got a 15g for my Wife for her birthday earlier this month.
Damn you Jobs!
(Ok... the one I got is still cool, though)
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Having a built-in radio receiver would be nice, but I'd hardly call it a "must-have, life-saving" feature.
Maybe you should ask Steve Jobs to include a weeks dry rations and heart defibrillator too.
This expression is used continually everywhere to describe run away success in sales, popularity, etc. It was used here in this thread at least a dozen times when talking about the fantastic sales of the iPods.
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I do not understand this? Who are these hotcake vendors? Where are they selling these hotcakes everyone talks about being so popular? Who buys these hotcakes anyway?
I certainly am not interested in buying hotcakes. They probably aren't Atkins friendly anyway. In fact, they don't sound so appetizing to me. Do they come with syrup? Are they sold with powdered sugar coating? Or fruit toppings? How about with butter or creamc heese?
Sounds like the popular pancakes that used to be sold in Moscow.
Surely this isn't where the term "selling like hotcakes" comes from, right?
How about we all change this old fashioned, outdated and silly phrase!
Lets all being using the term "Selling Like iPods!" instead. .
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Hey, guys, how well do hotcakes sell?
Hard to say, but I heard a rumour that Pillsbury just came out with a new hotcake that's selling like iPods.
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"The case isn't meant to be opened by the user for a convienience factor."
Yeah, it's so much more 'convenient' to ship your new ipod to Apple, and have them send you someone else's ipod back, with a new battery, than to have a little hatch with a screw, and the ability to replace the battery yourself.
Convenience factor your ass, you little marketing droid.
for the generation of iPods that will come with 100 teragigs, stop the war and cure cancer.
*The 60gb hds are actually for the iMac G5's that will float on a cushion of air and have a hockey puck base which can make any flat surface into an air hockey table. Who says we Mac users don't get any of the good games? I love air hockey.
*Pure conjecture
Yeah, but they still won't engrave "Bad Motherfucker." Bastards.
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Yes, the number of iPod models offered has always been 3 for sufficiently large values of 1 (5GB first gen) or 2 (5GB and 10GB first gen), or sufficiently small values of 4 (4GB mini and 15/20/40GB third gen). Oh, and chocolate rations are up.
ALL HAIL BRAK!!!
And you can Apple's iPod site
Since when is "can" not a verb.. [/feeble]
The aliens can be killed with water!
Maybe you could play your LPs back at 45 or 78, capture at 96k, and then resample them down to the correct speed... ;-)
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Pointing to Creative's Nomad line as iPod knockoffs is far from accurate. In terms of quality and meaningful features, the Nomad blows an iPod out of the water everytime. My first MP3 player was an iPod. I was disappointed in the quality of almost every aspect of the unit. The case felt cheap, the sound quality was awful (IMO), and the controls just didn't feel comfortable. I demoed a Nomad Zen at a local shop and returned the iPod a couple of hours later. The Zen costs significantly less and offers much higer quality sound and a more significant feature set (again IMO). For the quality you get, the iPod is drastically over-priced. h
> Sooo... you've got about as much spine as cooked spaghetti?
:-)
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