I bought the new iPod nano for Ellen's birthday. It's so completely Jetsons, almost like a wrist-watch tv. It can store music, pictures, and even has an FM tuner. I put a quarter next to it in the photo to the left for scale, and I noticed the date on the quarter was 1998, which was about when we bought our last music system-- what we at the time thought was a pretty state-of-the art system with a double cassette deck and a 50-CD changer. Then our significant CD collection disappeared when it was ripped to an early generation iPod, which next to today's nano looks like an absolute REFRIGERATOR! The revolution in the development of this kind of portable media device in the last few years is pretty amazing. Anyway, the one downside of this new technology is that its demands for RAM have outstripped the capabilities our five-year-old iMac, so Ellen has to load the new nano from our Dell laptop. So this puts in focus the eventual and unavoidable need to update our increasingly creaky desktop, but that's a familiar story, right? That's what the hardware companies are hoping we'll do... kvz
I bought the new iPod nano for Ellen's birthday. It's so completely Jetsons, almost like a wrist-watch tv. It can store music, pictures, and even has an FM tuner. I put a quarter next to it in the photo to the left for scale, and I noticed the date on the quarter was 1998, which was about when we bought our last music system-- what we at the time thought was a pretty state-of-the art system with a double cassette deck and a 50-CD changer. Then our significant CD collection disappeared when it was ripped to an early generation iPod, which next to today's nano looks like an absolute REFRIGERATOR! The revolution in the development of this kind of portable media device in the last few years is pretty amazing. Anyway, the one downside of this new technology is that its demands for RAM have outstripped the capabilities our five-year-old iMac, so Ellen has to load the new nano from our Dell laptop. So this puts in focus the eventual and unavoidable need to update our increasingly creaky desktop, but that's a familiar story, right? That's what the hardware companies are hoping we'll do... kvz
It's TEENY!
ReplyDeleteWhen I've talked with audio folks, they says MP3 files aren't as satisfying to listen to as CD recordings. Do you find that true?
I still listen to CDs (and radio stations) because I hate having those earbuds in my ears!
They said that CDs weren't as good as vinyl, but with my tin ears, I can't really tell the difference. Maybe a seasoned musician would know the difference. I was cycling on the bike trail with earbuds in and the wind was whistling on them-- not very aerodynamic, I guess.
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