a question about memory, an i swear this is my last question (i think!)

[eseffpephotogra]

does the ipod touch have flash memory? or is the only way to get more memory to buy a new ipod?

[BlackWolf]

it has flash memory and the maximum size is 32GB. the only way to get more is to buy a 80 oder 160GB ipod classic.

[eseffpephotogra]

it has flash memory and the maximum size is 32GB. the only way to get more is to buy a 80 oder 160GB ipod classic.

hey thanks, well aslong as i can get up to 32 gb thats enough for me! i cant imagine ever using more than that :eek:

[BlackWolf]

hey thanks, well aslong as i can get up to 32 gb thats enough for me! i cant imagine ever using more than that :eek:
a simple look at apple.com would have revealed that too by the way ;-)

[Code Monkey]

hey thanks, well aslong as i can get up to 32 gb thats enough for me! i cant imagine ever using more than that :eek:You should bookmark this post so that in a year when you're scratching your head wondering how you wound up with double that amount you can remember your innocent days ;)

Before iPod: I had amassed around 400 albums over about 15 years time. That's about two albums a month.
After iPod: I amassed something on the order of 1600 additional full albums, not to mention how many ever singles and partial albums, in about four years time. That's about eight albums a week.

The more convenient it becomes to manage and listen to music, the more you feel like listening to :D.

I'm an extreme example, but the phenomenon of a person getting into digital music and then greatly increasing their acquisition of music is almost a given.

[jhollington]

Although I'm also an extreme example, I"m sure, I should point out that I now have close to two terabytes of content, albeit mostly video content, to be fair.

By comparison, my first hard drive that I ever owned was 5MB, and I remember wondering what I was going to do with all that space. Now, I have 400,000 times the storage of my first hard drive in media content alone.....

"Enough" storage is always 1GB more than whatever you actually have..... ;)

[smiduri]

.....I should point out that I now have close to two terabytes of content, albeit mostly video content, to be fair.

:eek: ....2 tera of Video? what are you a proxy for every Tv Show, movie and Music Video ever produced?

:D

[Code Monkey]

:eek: ....2 tera of Video? what are you a proxy for every Tv Show, movie and Music Video ever produced?

:DAlthough, I know you're semi joking, 2TB of video is nothing. Even assuming a reasonable iPod centric encoding, you're still looking at around 250MB to 500MB per hour of video. If you assume you're also looking to output to TV, you're definitely at a minumum of 500MB/hour if you're trying to keep high quality. While 2000-3000 hours or so of video is a fair amount, it's still not that much relative to the amount of content you could potentially have. Plus, if you're storing video "losslessly" as actual backup, it's really not much at all seeing as each DVD is in the neighborhood of 8GB.

[smiduri]

Although, I know you're semi joking, 2TB of video is nothing. Even assuming a reasonable iPod centric encoding, you're still looking at around 250MB to 500MB per hour of video. If you assume you're also looking to output to TV and you're definitely at a minumum of 500MB/hour if you're trying to keep high quality. While 2000-3000 hours or so of video is a fair amount, it's still not that much relative to the amount of content you could potentially have. Plus, if you're storing video "losslessly" as actual backup, it's really not much at all seeing as each DVD is in the neighborhood of 8GB.

Yes I was semi-joking and I agree with all you said; but probably is something psicological 2 Teras of anything still sound like a lot to me.

I know, few years ago a portable device with 160 gigs would have seemed like something useless, and now it's not but still 2 Teras....... I´m still not used to that

[jhollington]

That's rather my point, actually.... 2TB seems like a lot even by today's standards, and really as Code Monkey very correctly points out, it's not very much at all in terms of the overall amount of content that is out there. Yes, I probably have about 20 weeks of video content available, but there are still things that I know I'm conspicuously missing from that collection, so it's only going to grow bigger over time.

My 5MB hard drive seemed like a lot of storage space too back in 1984, back when I was running a BBS from a 360KB floppy diskette.

Everything is relative.

Ergo, 32GB for an iPod touch may seem like more than somebody new to the world of digital music would ever possibly need, but those of us with a bit more experience can see how quickly one might fill that up. It depends on one's musical tastes, of course -- I know many people who are happy with their 4GB iPod nanos simply because they just listen to the same music all the time anyway.