I think it's an all-or-nothing upgrade, tommyrot.
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
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Tom Scola - Jan 08, 2009 12:20:37 pm PST #8709 of 25501
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tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 12:28:19 pm PST #8710 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Well, the Apple press-release says:
iTunes offers customers a simple, one-click option to easily upgrade their entire library of previously purchased songs to the higher quality DRM-free iTunes Plus format for just 30 cents per song or 30 percent of the album price.
No mention of other options. I hope there will be. Otherwise, phooey on them.
Where is that "one-click option" anyway?
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 12:36:40 pm PST #8711 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
omnis_audis - Jan 08, 2009 1:04:33 pm PST #8712 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
SSD HD 3-story drop test [link] Usually I do the 6 foot drop test. This is awesome! How much will these puppies cost?
Barb - Jan 08, 2009 1:09:09 pm PST #8713 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”
You can upgrade individual songs tommy. The one click feature is in a column on the right hand side of the iTunes store. When you click on it, it'll take you to a window that shows all your purchases, the complete price to upgrade in one fell swoop, then below, the list of each individual songs with the option to upgrade as wanted/needed.
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 1:15:37 pm PST #8714 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay! 256-kbps DRM-free copies coming my way!
Gudanov - Jan 08, 2009 1:15:40 pm PST #8715 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 1:16:22 pm PST #8716 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How much will these puppies cost?
$237.
That's my guess before even looking at your link....
eta: My guess was close - it's $299.
The price should come down lots, me thinks. Somewhere I read today of a 256GB solid state drive for $500-ish....
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 1:20:24 pm PST #8717 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here it is: SanDisk's affordable 240GB SSD: 7x faster than a hard disk
OK, I was off a bit on capacity....
Available this summer for around $500, this 2.5-inch SATA drive is as fast as it is affordable. Using a marketing term SanDisk invented, the drive is rated at 40,000 VRPM, or Virtual Revolutions Per Minute. What that means to the rest of us is that the drive should perform about 7 times faster than a typical hard drive, giving us faster boot times and more responsive programs. We'll be saving up.
eta: This is normal desktop drive sized (physical), not laptop sized like Gud's link.
eta²: I think. Hard to tell. It looks smaller than a desktop drive but bigger than a laptop drive?
Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2009 1:23:11 pm PST #8718 of 25501
brillig
t still waiting to fill up my humungous-to-me 70gig hard drive