[Ti] Offtopic: likely date for new iPods

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 02:13  pm, Loren Schooley wrote:
>
> The next hardware revision rumor is a 40Gig model. None of the existing
> models will be revised. My advise: Get the 20gig. I have a 10 gig and 
> it is
> maxxed out to the max.
>

i'm in the same boat as I am also considering an iPod purchase.

The bottom line for me atm is that I can't really afford the 20gb 
version (yet) but having used mp3 technology for quite some time know 
that anything less than 40-60Gb will be less than adequate for my large 
collection, which is also going to take me hours to rip!

At this stage I am considering buying a Firewire HD enclosure from 
Other World Computing, and putting a quiet and stable single platter 
5400rpm 60Gb disk in it.

Of course this would not be a replacement for an iPod but just a way to 
have all of my music in one convenient place for listening.

If a 40Gb iPod is released soon I may have to reconsider since my 
friends have iPods and THEY ROCK.




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Tarik Bilgin
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