Whim
Alumni
Brice
Hutchings
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40Gb iPods: Woo
Hoo!
| Published 10/10/03
Graphic By: John Cordiano
The first thing you'll notice about the new pods is the ultra spiffy new buttons. Now the play, next, back and menu buttons are on there own, and they're touch sensitive. These are not the usual type of touch sensitive buttons. They are "Startrek" style, non-moving, just-touch-it-and-it-works type buttons. These buttons also light up red and white. When you're done with all your button pressing needs, they dim back to sleep.
The 30 and 40 gig iPod's new software features are almost as entreating as watching the buttons fade on and off. In fact, iPod now comes standard with the most popular piece of software from the PC word: Solitaire! If that's not enough to keep you entertained, it also has a bounce-the-ball-off-the-brick game and a parachute game, which is about the opposite of the brick game. The new pods can also make play lists without being hooked up to a computer, which is really cool. If you just broke up with your girlfriend and still have a four hour car ride back home to North Virginia, it could be really useful to make a hardcore punk play list, one which you might not have thought to make before you left.
Also it holds up to 40Gb of music! Now it can stuff even more music onto that huge hard drive because of the new ACC compression codec. ACC is just a fancy name for what is really the Mp4 codec. However it enables you to encode files at about half the bit rate of and Mp3 and keeps the same sound quality.
The new iPods are a lot more fun that the old versions, and they can hold four times more songs and you can organize them On-The-Go.
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Brice is really jealous that the new 'Pods are bigger
than his Hard Drive.
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Responses: For those of you who are interested, the iPod is going for $299 and is available for the Windows and Macintosh platforms.
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