An ipod Touch with a hard drive?! Sounds cool but I seriously doubt this product is intended to be used with a HDD. Now when those solid state drives Seagate has been talking about come out, all bets are on. They’ve been saying up to 160GB by next year but no word on how big these will be. They will probably be very expensive but I’m sure Apple R&D is paying close attention.

I don’t care if it comes in the form of a hard drive, flash or punched cards, I just need 40 GBs minimum.

It’s the screen resolution that counts, not the size. Just hold the unit one inch closer to your face!

Ian, don’t be silly. I am not going to hold the iPod Classic closer to my face in an uncomfortable position for 2 hours just so I go around Apple’s stupid decision to not offer an HDD-based Touch. Funnily, online, people are unhappy about the same thing too (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), plus the removal of Mail.app. Besides, the Touch has a larger resolution anyway, so your point is mute.

Eugenia, get yourself a sense of humour. Fair point about the resolution though.

If that was humor, learn to use smileys. 😉

Here’s Gizmodo’s 5 things to love/hate in the new line up. Right on target!

Where I come from, smiley’s aren’t necessary, but if you insist.

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I agree… I was disappointed.. 8 or 16GB? c’mon! How much harder is it to put a Hard Drive in it!! At least I can get an ipod classic 80GB for same price as the older 30GB .. “sigh”

Please excuse my pedantic nature.
Mute = quiet or silenced
Moot = no longer relevant
🙂

David

In this case, I guess it’s both.

I guess the lack of HDD is a trade-off for battery life.
The Touch certainly has a much higher power consumption (bigger screen, possibly much more powerful processor…). AFAIK Flash consumes much less power than hard drives.

Would you be willing to get 80 Gbs if the battery life was significantly diminished?

I’m just shooting in the dark here, no actual basis for that speculation. An explanation from Apple would be nice (but they are not known to be very forthcoming with their limitations so…)