“Toshiba today paved the way for 80GB iPods when it said it will ship an 80GB 1.8in hard drive in Q3 2005 – a year after it introduced the 60GB version that can currently to be found inside the iPod Photo,” Tony Smith reports for The Register. “The Japanese manufacturer didn’t mention any customers by name of course, but having supplied Apple with micro hard drives to date, it seems likely the relationship will continue with the new, higher capacity.”
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80GB iPod – how many songs would that hold?
I bet Turd-rot will have some negative take on this.
With him the glass is ALWAYS half empty, never half full.
I wonder just how large they can go.
Nice to have the room if you use your iPod as a portable drive in addition to the music and photo carrier.
they should just phase out the music ipods and just sell ipod photos instead.
It Apple does incorporate video at some point they will need this type of capacity.
Not only for the 80 GB iPod, but for a thinner version of the 40 GB too (those 40 GB ones use two 20 GB “disks”, the 60 GB two 30 GB)
I kind of doubt that Apple will release an 80GB iPod that is otherwise unchanged in terms of features. At some point, the size of the hard drive is plenty big for songs, and even photos. Now, if they start offering songs on iTMS in Apple’s Lossless encoding format, then suddenly the extra space becomes vital. I’d love to see the iPod have an optical out as well.
Otherwise, maybe we’ll see the 80GB HD show up in some “other Apple network device”.
What is the speed on these things anyway? It seems like they should be able to make a Powerbook (G5
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well hopefully apple will put this to good use who knows what they’ll come up with!
These stories always make it sound as though Toshiba is condescending to provide drives for iPods, even though somehow Apple may not be fully worthy.
I think the reality is that Toshiba is bowing and scraping to be allowed vendor approval by Apple, who is purchasing as many of these (very expensive, probably excellent profit margin items) as Toshiba can make.
I can hardly wait for my 80 gig iPod and G5 Powerbook.
Mike
That’s Quarter 3, 2005. I guess they’ll be preannouncing the 120 gig by Quarter 2, 2005. I terabyte by 2007, anyone? You can stuff yo’mama in it.
Jack A – nothing against Toshiba, but tiny HDs like that are low yield devices and aren’t designed to have a full duty cycle like the 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives we use in laptops and desktops. They don’t spin as fast, and their design is for quick reads and spindowns.
you can install Mac OS X on an iPod and boot from it, if you really want to. You will however, kill your iPod eventually from the hard drive abuse.
The 80 gig drive gives Apple the option to make a crazy huge iPod, or some other device… it’s just news.
Anybody want to buy a 60GB iPod in excellent condition in about 12 months?
1 Gig! 1Gig! 1Gig! GigiPod.
40 GB iPod, yay! 60 GB iPod, WOW! 80 GB iPod, HOLY FREAKIN CRAP!!!
Now we just need Apple to have iBooks and PowerBooks with bigger (100+GB) and faster (5400RPM) HDs!
Will the iPod morph into a media player (via TV) for photos; presentations; QT movies; music vidoes; (simple) games, while the ‘iPod mini’ grows into what the iPod began as – a (strictly) music player?
iPod becomes ‘iPod max’ (cute)
‘iPod mini’ becomes iPod
Would that just confuse the models?
hmmm…. I new me was wise to hold off a little longer. I hope this one (if it happens) has true video out capabilities. Not just still pictures.
If it wants to compete with what Sony has ups its sleeve it had better have video out. WiFi would be nice too.
No good complaining about ‘oh i just bought a 60gig iPod’. Patience grasshopper. We all know that something bigger and better is always round the corner. Me ? The last gadget i bought was the 800mhz iBook back in 2001/2?
Im just waiting for the technology to catch up with what i want to buy. Id love one of those holographic progectors the English have apparently invented (I hope they brand name it ‘Rimmer’ or ‘Holly’), and in about 3 – 8 years I might get one.