Gadget Disappointment
 

"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 6/27/13 5:13 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
...



The new laptop has all solid state storage, an SSD. No spinning
drive.
That'll be something new for me in an actual laptop or desktop
computer
but of course precisely what is in a smart phone and most tablets.

Supposedly faster than a hard drive, easier on the battery, et
cetera.
But not upgradeable, the way a hard drive is.

-----------------------------------------

What kind of storage capacity do they offer? I think getting away
from
spinning hard drives is a great idea.



The current laptops now offer storage SSDs from 128 GBs to 768 GBs,
and
you get get hybrid drives on the desktops that combine spinning drives
and SSDs.

---------------------------------------

Wow. That's more than enough for me. I don't permanently store a
lot of stuff on my computer hard drives. I have a couple of external
drives that I use to store stuff I want to keep but only hook them up
and run them when I need them.

I just checked this computer that I've had for about 3 years. Hard
drive capacity is 450Gb of which 362Gb are free. I'll never come
close to filling it up.

Gadget Disappointment
 

On 6/27/13 6:22 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:19:54 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:


Perhaps you are comparing your MP3 player to an Apple hardware device,
such as an iPhone or iPad. In that case, you'd be wrong.


I assume he is comparing it to an I-pod, that is appropriate.
The I tunes software is free but the songs are not.



I have an iPod. I can play music and videos on it. It has 55 GBs of
content on it, and probably less than 100 tunes are tunes I bought and
paid for via iTunes. The rest are CDs I own I uploaded to iTunes and
MP3s from various sources, mostly free or near free. I manage it all
easily via iTunes.

Gadget Disappointment
 

wrote in message ...

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me
into putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....

It certainly is and Amazon is a lot easier to get music from than
I-tunes. It is a one click thing.

Of course using UseNet is even easier and a whole lot cheaper ;-)

-----------------------------------------------------

What I do is a little different than just getting published music.
There are tons of guitar instructional videos including full backing
tracks (minus the melody) on YouTube. I do a search for a song I'd
like to have and then record the audio from it using a simple but very
good program called "Audacity".
Audacity is a audio recording and editing program similar to Pro Tools
except it's much simpler to use.

Once I've recorded it, cleaned it up a bit (and even change the key
it's in if I want) I export it as a mp3. From there I can transfer
it to my music library on the iPad. The iPad (being so portable) is
great to play the backing track from with it's audio output connected
to a Fishman SoloAmp PA.
Works great and keeps me off the streets.

Gadget Disappointment
 

On 6/27/13 6:36 PM, Eisboch wrote:


wrote in message ...

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me into
putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....

It certainly is and Amazon is a lot easier to get music from than
I-tunes. It is a one click thing.

Of course using UseNet is even easier and a whole lot cheaper ;-)

-----------------------------------------------------

What I do is a little different than just getting published music. There
are tons of guitar instructional videos including full backing tracks
(minus the melody) on YouTube. I do a search for a song I'd like to
have and then record the audio from it using a simple but very good
program called "Audacity".
Audacity is a audio recording and editing program similar to Pro Tools
except it's much simpler to use.

Once I've recorded it, cleaned it up a bit (and even change the key it's
in if I want) I export it as a mp3. From there I can transfer it to
my music library on the iPad. The iPad (being so portable) is great to
play the backing track from with it's audio output connected to a
Fishman SoloAmp PA.
Works great and keeps me off the streets.



I don't go through any of that trouble, but there's certainly no problem
importing tunes via iTunes or other software onto an Apple device that
plays music.

Gadget Disappointment
 

On 6/27/2013 6:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:44:45 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

The new laptop has all solid state storage, an SSD. No spinning drive.
That'll be something new for me in an actual laptop or desktop computer
but of course precisely what is in a smart phone and most tablets.

Supposedly faster than a hard drive, easier on the battery, et cetera.
But not upgradeable, the way a hard drive is.

My grand daughter's 2009 Disney laptop has an SSD drive but when I
bought the one for the younger grand daughter I got a real machine
with a hard drive.

You can get replacement SSDs but they ain't cheap.

A 1 terabit external drive cost me $100.

Gadget Disappointment
 

On 6/27/2013 6:41 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 6/27/13 6:36 PM, Eisboch wrote:


wrote in message ...

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me into
putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....

It certainly is and Amazon is a lot easier to get music from than
I-tunes. It is a one click thing.

Of course using UseNet is even easier and a whole lot cheaper ;-)

-----------------------------------------------------

What I do is a little different than just getting published music. There
are tons of guitar instructional videos including full backing tracks
(minus the melody) on YouTube. I do a search for a song I'd like to
have and then record the audio from it using a simple but very good
program called "Audacity".
Audacity is a audio recording and editing program similar to Pro Tools
except it's much simpler to use.

Once I've recorded it, cleaned it up a bit (and even change the key it's
in if I want) I export it as a mp3. From there I can transfer it to
my music library on the iPad. The iPad (being so portable) is great to
play the backing track from with it's audio output connected to a
Fishman SoloAmp PA.
Works great and keeps me off the streets.



I don't go through any of that trouble, but there's certainly no problem
importing tunes via iTunes or other software onto an Apple device that
plays music.

You two are on completely different wavelengths. You don't have an
inkling of what he's talking about.

Gadget Disappointment
 

On 6/27/13 6:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:44:45 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

The new laptop has all solid state storage, an SSD. No spinning drive.
That'll be something new for me in an actual laptop or desktop computer
but of course precisely what is in a smart phone and most tablets.

Supposedly faster than a hard drive, easier on the battery, et cetera.
But not upgradeable, the way a hard drive is.

My grand daughter's 2009 Disney laptop has an SSD drive but when I
bought the one for the younger grand daughter I got a real machine
with a hard drive.

You can get replacement SSDs but they ain't cheap.


They will be. Rotating disk hard drives are the dinosaurs now for
consumer and small business use and probably will disappear in a handful
of years, except for the replacement market.

Gadget Disappointment
 

In article , says...

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:44:45 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

The new laptop has all solid state storage, an SSD. No spinning drive.
That'll be something new for me in an actual laptop or desktop computer
but of course precisely what is in a smart phone and most tablets.

Supposedly faster than a hard drive, easier on the battery, et cetera.
But not upgradeable, the way a hard drive is.

My grand daughter's 2009 Disney laptop has an SSD drive but when I
bought the one for the younger grand daughter I got a real machine
with a hard drive.

You can get replacement SSDs but they ain't cheap.

My company loves SSD!

Gadget Disappointment
 

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:09:42 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me into putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....

It certainly is and Amazon is a lot easier to get music from than
I-tunes. It is a one click thing.

Of course using UseNet is even easier and a whole lot cheaper ;-)

For shame, for shame. Surely you don't partake in newsgroups such as this:

Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bluegrass


John (Gun Nut) H.
--

Hope you're having a great day!

Gadget Disappointment
 

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:47:12 -0400, Hank© wrote:

On 6/27/2013 6:41 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 6/27/13 6:36 PM, Eisboch wrote:


wrote in message ...

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me into
putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....

It certainly is and Amazon is a lot easier to get music from than
I-tunes. It is a one click thing.

Of course using UseNet is even easier and a whole lot cheaper ;-)

-----------------------------------------------------

What I do is a little different than just getting published music. There
are tons of guitar instructional videos including full backing tracks
(minus the melody) on YouTube. I do a search for a song I'd like to
have and then record the audio from it using a simple but very good
program called "Audacity".
Audacity is a audio recording and editing program similar to Pro Tools
except it's much simpler to use.

Once I've recorded it, cleaned it up a bit (and even change the key it's
in if I want) I export it as a mp3. From there I can transfer it to
my music library on the iPad. The iPad (being so portable) is great to
play the backing track from with it's audio output connected to a
Fishman SoloAmp PA.
Works great and keeps me off the streets.



I don't go through any of that trouble, but there's certainly no problem
importing tunes via iTunes or other software onto an Apple device that
plays music.

You two are on completely different wavelengths. You don't have an
inkling of what he's talking about.

Hush. Don't tell him.

John (Gun Nut) H.
--

Hope you're having a great day!