An essential upgrade

October 12, 2005 4:39 AM

An essential upgradefor iPod nano owners. Note that the 200gb capacity enables you to store about 50 000 pieces of music. If this capacity is filled with illegal mp3s, you can be fined up to 75 Million USD. That aside, the upgraded nano is a thing of beauty.
posted by grahamwell (23 comments total)

you know, the first link made me think that the final 200gb nano product was encase in an interesting book-like product. Clearly, I am unfamiliar with the original nano's packaging.

this is awesome.
posted by shmegegge at 4:44 AM on October 12, 2005

bah. strapon an external hard drive to a flash player.
posted by filmgeek at 4:49 AM on October 12, 2005

I love the graph of battery life.
posted by joegester at 4:58 AM on October 12, 2005

Way to ruin the gag, Captain Obvious.
posted by trey at 4:59 AM on October 12, 2005

Ha, so slender!
posted by Peter H at 5:01 AM on October 12, 2005

could....could this actually work? can you wire a serial ATA hard drive to an iPod?

where it mentions something about compact flash being written to ATA specifications i lost a little bit of my skepticism. now i realize i don't know enough about hardware specs to know if this'd work.

crazy.
posted by taumeson at 6:05 AM on October 12, 2005

Even if the bogus bit about flash memory were true, there's no way in hell you could meet the power requirements of that disk drive from the battery of a Nano.

This Is A Fake.
posted by fake at 6:13 AM on October 12, 2005

The wiring diagram looks a little dubious. A parallel interface would involve a lot of wires attached in a row to the same area on the motherboard, no? Plus the finished product doesn't seem to have a huge data cable protruding anywhere.

But, some schmukus is going to try it anyway.
posted by CynicalKnight at 6:16 AM on October 12, 2005

This is uncyclopedia. Of course it's true. They have standards there. Very rigorous standards.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:22 AM on October 12, 2005

In related news, Apple is going to unveil its newest iPod--we were all hoping for a video iPod, but instead it's going to be the Madonna iPod. Bleh.
posted by fandango_matt at 6:22 AM on October 12, 2005

it's a link to uncyclopedia... of course it's a fake!
posted by twistedonion at 6:29 AM on October 12, 2005

Bust out laughing. Thanks.
I love the battery life, too.
posted by cavalier at 7:39 AM on October 12, 2005

where it mentions something about compact flash being written to ATA specifications i lost a little bit of my skepticism.

I know people used to buy Rio Carbon MP3 players, pop them open for their hard drives, and plug them directly into their digital cameras where a flash memory card is supposed to be. This was supposedly cheaper/easier than actually finding a 5GB flash card.

Whether that has any bearing I don't know, but they do have bearings...
posted by Foosnark at 8:25 AM on October 12, 2005

instead it's going to be the Madonna iPod.

Cool. I would trade the sterile lucite for old pop star leather anyday.
posted by srboisvert at 8:46 AM on October 12, 2005

New iPod.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 8:49 AM on October 12, 2005

The link, she's broken, I think.

But the joke's already been ruined anyway. Oh well. Spoilsports.
posted by fenriq at 10:15 AM on October 12, 2005

but instead it's going to be the Madonna iPod.

Whoa, edgy. What's next, the Ethel Merman iPod?
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:19 AM on October 12, 2005

Link 1 Coralized.

Link 2 Coralized.
posted by basicchannel at 10:20 AM on October 12, 2005

This does raise an interesting idea, though. How great would it be if Ipods offered USB or Firewire out for external storage?
posted by Peter H at 10:45 AM on October 12, 2005

Foosnark - I know people used to buy Rio Carbon MP3 players, pop them open for their hard drives,

I was under the impression that the cameras already used microdrives and that it was cheaper to buy a Rio Carbon than to actually buy a new microdrive at retail...
posted by PurplePorpoise at 10:45 AM on October 12, 2005

I was so shocked thinking that the nano battery had a 5v and a 12v rail, and cold power a full size hard drive...then I came to the conclusion it is total bullshit.
posted by Dean Keaton at 3:43 PM on October 12, 2005

This does raise an interesting idea, though. How great would it be if Ipods offered USB or Firewire out for external storage?

No shit. Isn't that the huge reason *not* to buy one? Though I don't agree with the DMCA at all, I prefer to use a digital-music player that doesn't require me to violate the DMCA to use the player properly (i.e. transfer music wherever I'd like).
posted by mrgrimm at 5:23 PM on October 12, 2005

"Though I don't agree with the DMCA at all"

Hey, looks like I lost any shred of respect I once held for you.
posted by Dean Keaton at 2:57 AM on October 13, 2005