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---Don't be rediculus. For that you take a device called notebook (PowerBook) and transfer pictures nightly---

If I'm on a roadtrip for fun, why drag along my laptop? I want to escape from the office, and also don't want to risk it being stolen from my car or hotel room. More importantly, I have a Sony digital camera that dates back 3 or 4 years, with a memory stick that can only hold 50 or so photos taken at top resolution. So if I use your solution, I can shoot a limited number of photos, then have to run back to my hotel room. Or, instead, I can dump them onto the iPod that's in my pocket already and keep going.

---In fact I do not believe you will store 10000 songs on iPod for sake of... wisdom.---

My 20G iPod is solidly packed, and am considering an upgrade to the 60G model. I own a ton of cd's and have over 120G of music on a firewire hard drive. I like to hear things I haven't heard for a while, so having a huge pool to shuffle through is mostly how I use it.

---It is simply impractical to hold all music on portable device prone to damages and loss of data.---

Agreed, that's why everything is stored on a hard drive that gets periodically backed up to DVD. Why would anyone just store all of their music on an iPod?

---Do you have 10000 favorite songs to listen to?---

I don't know if I'd call them all "favorites", but there are certainly 10,000 songs that I'd be happy to hear. More importantly, there are lots of songs I own but haven't listened to in months, if not years, and having random access to them is nice.

---Be reasonable. On average few days trip I take 200-500 pictures at pretty high resolution (the highest of my camera and not the one that average Joe uses)---

Sure, so for me that's 4-10 trips to the car/hotel to dump onto the laptop, or zero trips to dump to the iPod.

---Do you risk storing thousands of pictures with memories of part of your life on one portable device?---

Nope, that's why the iPod would get periodically dumped onto the hard drive and burned to disc. Why this obsession with only using one device? Multiple backups are obviously the way to go, and using an iPod does not preclude doing this.

---Just don't cry when failure occurs---

I won't, as it's backed up elsewhere. I expect you won't cry either if one of your camera's memory cards craps out, which is just as likely.

---In the meantime iPod Shuffle seems to be a hit due to how people use multimedia.. in this case music---

Apple says the shuffle was designed around how their research shows people used their iPods. For me, it's pretty accurate, as I mostly only use shuffle play. The small Shuffle wouldn't work for me though, as I demand a big pool of choices.

Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 02/23/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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