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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #30 on: September 18, 2010, 04:38:19 am »
I ended up getting an iTouch instead ^^ Its a lot more fun than the mini :)
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #31 on: September 19, 2010, 12:12:45 pm »
Now I know why it's called a nano: it's approximately one nanonanoparsec square ;D

But seriously, the good side of the iPod (and all of Apple's products) is its hardware. It might even be too good for most purposes, anyway.
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #32 on: September 19, 2010, 12:17:15 pm »
What does their hardware have that other computer doesn't though? DO you mean it breaks slower? Hardware-wise, in many cases, for a computer, you ended up paying $1000 more for a Mac that had roughly the same specs as its PC counterpart
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #33 on: September 19, 2010, 12:19:30 pm »
I meant like the aluminum casings/linings on a lot of their products, where most companies would have just used plastic.
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #34 on: September 19, 2010, 12:21:21 pm »
Ah, right. Doesn't that get extremly hot, though? X.x
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #35 on: September 20, 2010, 09:04:29 am »
Aluminum is a good material, but it doesnt change the fact that macs have about $500 worth of hardware and a $50 OS and the computer costs $3000. Where does that other $2450 go? (Im talking in US dollars btw)

You can custom build a PC for $1000 with much better specs that will last just as long as a mac, and if you like Mac OS, you can put it on a PC. Its the fact that their hardware is so shiny that gets the sales.

And the new nano has multitouch. The only thing you can really do with the multitouch is rotate the screen by twisting 2 fingers on it. But why? Do you really need to be able to do that? Its an MP3 player. Stuff like a multitouch screen on an iPod that small just wastes memory and uses up storage space, since it isnt really useful for anything.
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2010, 10:51:28 am »
Apple loves graphics. Everyone knows that :)

Anyway, I actually used an iPod nano yesterday. It's actually pretty good, basically a really scaled down version of an iPod Touch.

As for the menus, they're not exactly black and white. They're black text on a white background with a gradient blue selection, just like on the iPhone, iPad, iMac, and every Apple product produced since 2007.
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2010, 06:20:00 pm »
does it have retina display?  because if it does, I guess they could get super small games on it.  :P
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #38 on: September 20, 2010, 06:57:19 pm »
It's 220 ppi versus 326 on the iPhone 4, so not exactly Retina, but still really, really high-reso (better than the 3GS at 163): http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/specs.html. Don't know about gaming. The missing physical nav wheel makes a lot of games unplayable on the new nano, unfortunately.

EDIT: Whoa, the iPhone 4 white's out! Doesn't look as good as the black model, though...
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2010, 08:00:41 pm »
I bet ppl will be amazed by the white iPhone 4 and buy one even though they already have a black one x.x
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #40 on: September 21, 2010, 06:20:26 pm »
Quote from: Broseph Radson on September 20, 2010, 09:04:29 am
Aluminum is a good material, but it doesnt change the fact that macs have about $500 worth of hardware and a $50 OS and the computer costs $3000. Where does that other $2450 go? (Im talking in US dollars btw)

You can custom build a PC for $1000 with much better specs that will last just as long as a mac, and if you like Mac OS, you can put it on a PC. Its the fact that their hardware is so shiny that gets the sales.

And the new nano has multitouch. The only thing you can really do with the multitouch is rotate the screen by twisting 2 fingers on it. But why? Do you really need to be able to do that? Its an MP3 player. Stuff like a multitouch screen on an iPod that small just wastes memory and uses up storage space, since it isnt really useful for anything.
If you custom build, it will be cheaper than even major PC manufacturers, for the same hardware.
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #41 on: September 21, 2010, 08:00:46 pm »
Quote from: fb39ca4 on September 21, 2010, 06:20:26 pm
Quote from: Broseph Radson on September 20, 2010, 09:04:29 am
Aluminum is a good material, but it doesnt change the fact that macs have about $500 worth of hardware and a $50 OS and the computer costs $3000. Where does that other $2450 go? (Im talking in US dollars btw)

You can custom build a PC for $1000 with much better specs that will last just as long as a mac, and if you like Mac OS, you can put it on a PC. Its the fact that their hardware is so shiny that gets the sales.

And the new nano has multitouch. The only thing you can really do with the multitouch is rotate the screen by twisting 2 fingers on it. But why? Do you really need to be able to do that? Its an MP3 player. Stuff like a multitouch screen on an iPod that small just wastes memory and uses up storage space, since it isnt really useful for anything.
If you custom build, it will be cheaper than even major PC manufacturers, for the same hardware.
yeah...
my custom build Core i7 desktop was only about 1300 dollars..
oh... with a 60gb Solid State Hard drive of course :P
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #42 on: September 21, 2010, 11:12:17 pm »
Quote from: fb39ca4 on September 21, 2010, 06:20:26 pm
Quote from: Broseph Radson on September 20, 2010, 09:04:29 am
Aluminum is a good material, but it doesnt change the fact that macs have about $500 worth of hardware and a $50 OS and the computer costs $3000. Where does that other $2450 go? (Im talking in US dollars btw)

You can custom build a PC for $1000 with much better specs that will last just as long as a mac, and if you like Mac OS, you can put it on a PC. Its the fact that their hardware is so shiny that gets the sales.

And the new nano has multitouch. The only thing you can really do with the multitouch is rotate the screen by twisting 2 fingers on it. But why? Do you really need to be able to do that? Its an MP3 player. Stuff like a multitouch screen on an iPod that small just wastes memory and uses up storage space, since it isnt really useful for anything.
If you custom build, it will be cheaper than even major PC manufacturers, for the same hardware.
It depends where you live, though. Where I live in Canada, the last time I calculated for parts, I ended up with the double of the original price I would have paid for a pre-built computer
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #43 on: September 21, 2010, 11:51:13 pm »
I have a magazine article that shows you how to build a computer for $72.  (It's a few years old, but still...)
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Re: New iPod nano: Another iPhone!
« Reply #44 on: September 21, 2010, 11:52:22 pm »
What are the specs? O.O
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