8 & 10 GB iPod Nanos Rumored 238
koweja writes "The UK based technology magazine T3 is predicting that Apple will release larger iPod Nanos in the near future. From the article, "Munster's reasoning is that, as the touchscreen iPod will likely not now appear until next year, Apple needs to launch something eye-catching in time for the lucrative run-up to Christmas - and bigger capacity nanos fit the bill nicely." Granted it's an almost completely unsubstantiated prediction from somebody outside of Apple, but it is what a lot of people have been asking for since the original Nanos came out."
Here is Why... (Score:5, Informative)
If a normal consumer can buy these things on the retail market today, Apple really needs to get its act together and start increasing capacity on its lower end or it is going to lose that market to these cheap drives and the simple add-ons that allow playback of music.
It has been done already (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It has been done already (Score:3, Informative)
What I hadn't known is that the people at hackaday said that: "The legitimacy of this hack is yet to be confirmed.
It'd be cool if it was true, but the firmware might not be able to handle the extra space.
Re:Nanos were made to have smaller capacity (Score:4, Informative)
Precisley. Which is why the regular iPods will be phased out, save perhaps for some large-screen video iPod. After all, why would I want a hard disk based mp3 player if I can have a solid state one with the same capacity for the same price? Hard disk players are going to die out, it's inevitable. Regular iPods won't be an exception.
Re:The reason I havent bought is the small size (Score:3, Informative)
The drive does have a capacity of 6GB. The 0.4GB discrepancy is due to two factors:
So saying the mini holds 6GB is not incorrect at all.
Re:Is it even physically possible? (Score:3, Informative)
I assume Samsung has a few tricks up their short term sleeve as well though.
Re:nano replaced mini (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Nanos were made to have smaller capacity (Score:3, Informative)
Re:In Other News (Score:1, Informative)
Windows XP - October 25, 2001
In roughly that same time frame...
OS X - March 2001
OS X 10.1 - September 2001
OS X 10.2 - August 2002
OS X 10.3 - October 2003
OS X 10.4 - April 2005
Not sure which versions of OS X were free upgrades, I assume most were.
Re:In Other News (Score:2, Informative)
The product name is "Mac OS X", and the version is 4. That gives you 10.4. So when version 5 of OS X comes out, it'll be called OS X.5.
There are major additions to functionality, generally the OS runs much faster on the same hardware, and the under the hood stuff gets better.
You can get the security updates for free, they're like the minor versions. So 10.4.1 was the first set of bugfixes and updates.
Re: In Other News (Score:2, Informative)
Re: In Other News (Score:3, Informative)