Umm I still haven't filled my 80 gig! Only 12,000 songs...who needs 500,000 songs? A radio station?

finally a place where i can store all the 3,200 movies i've purchase from iTunes.

i hope this lowers the iphone/ipod/iwahtever price

Yes! I love that they are keeping with the music and film trend of more storage and less quality. This should bode well for future generations.

i love everyones cynicism. the only way to live man.

I am sure they will charge $1000 for it and drop the price to $400 in a few months

give me a break, Anon 11:00. Do you plan on casually scrolling through half-a-million songs while grokking their inherent artistic work (or lack therof). you must have condo money... Or are in the hospital.

I don't like when people rate storage based on the number of songs. I don't know what that really means. Why don't they just say how many gigs?

^^

a lot of 'em.

Instead of going for 500,000 (or whatever that translates to) you could just put higher quality files instead of shitty sounding mp3s.

^^
Or just buy vinyl.

or see live shows mannnnn.

^yes, because everyone carries around their record player on the go. i see them in airports, everywhere.

Anon 11:22-

There is also the issue of albums recorded digitally being pressed onto vinyl. Digital recordings hold less information than vinyl does, so are you getting a better sound?

If a bear shits in the woods, does it smell?

seriously who needs half a million songs? you'd think at that point if one actually have that much music they're just collecting music for the sake of quantity not quality. fuck

I wrote a new song about 500,000 iPods!

NJ Hipster: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. And cassettes are lossless so they sound better than digital formats.

Seriously, how do you define information in this context? Just because vinyl records are analog and don't have a storage capacity in bytes, doesn't mean that they hold more information than digital masters...

i like turtles!

That's like 3 years of music.
I'm still trying to figure out if I like music.

Unfortunately, it'll probably still break really easily. But cheaper is good!

anon-10:39: I'll trade you your 80 for my more manageable 30 GB ipod. I keep having to decide what to erase whenever I rip a new cd.

And this is obviously going to be utilized not to stick 500,000 unlistenable mp3's into an ipod, but 50,000 songs that sound the way they were intended to be heard. I don't think the human race will be around long enough to realize this lofty ambition, unfortunately.

Am I the only one who uses their ipod as a pocket drive? I keep photoshop files on my ipod so that i can work on them at home and at work (and yes, i back up to a separate drive at home and work, 3 copies of each file SOMEWHERE). with a ton of space on a pocket you might even be able to store uncompressed video files to carry to and fro. (although i don't really know tht much about video editing.)

Anyway, my point is, who says it all has to be music and videos?

good point. plus my appetite for porn in insatiable. so that'll fill some space.

@ 11:24 am: actually, they do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Km5765z7Rs

Forget portable media players, I want this to take the place of the HDD in my next laptop. My POS HP laptop takes five minutes or more to finish booting when I turn it on.

JESUS FUCKING GOD. these capitalist scum will have people taking out loans from banks in the future, just to buy an ipod.

"IBM said the technology was still 'exploratory' at this stage, but that it expected devices which used it to be on the market within ten years."

I have to wait at least ten years? Fuck.

"JESUS FUCKING GOD. these capitalist scum will have people taking out loans from banks in the future, just to buy an ipod."

1. An iPod is not a necessity. No one is forced to buy an iPod.

2. You think no one who buys an iPod now charges the cost to a credit card and carries the balance? That's a loan.

3. What part of "cost far less to produce" didn't you understand?

cool, more songs/media to be reloaded when ipod decided to randomly erase itself.

"What is Steve Jobs doing in a boat?"
Preparing to raid the music industry. Yaar.