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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.
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.
while there is a beautiful iPod icon is actually a bit weird, but hey, this is Slashdot.
iPods do not have Ogg Vorbis support, making them evil. They should never be purchased.
There, happy now?
"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'...
Only big ligs use sigs.
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)
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
Rated [R] for "Rip Off"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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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"Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
1. Compress ripped CD audio to Ogg Vorbis ...
2. Share on your favourite filesharing system(s)
3.
4. Profit!
*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
And you can Apple's iPod site
Since when is "can" not a verb.. [/feeble]
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?
:-)
I've got the balls to post on Slashdot as a non-anonymous user!