New iDrive controller & infotainment system(with hard drive) for X5 and X6

[BMWBlog]

Originally Posted by IloveNYC

But why do a lot of german dealers confirm Mar 09 (also those wo said Sept 09 before)? Are they lying to increase their sales?

Not sure, let's wait and see what happens. Until there is an official confirmation from BMW, this is all speculation in the end.

if I hear something "more official", I will def post it here

[King]

Of course all 07 & 08 owners want to know if the new idrive can be retrofitted into their existing vehicles. I'm sure if there's a will, there's a way. Heck if you can retrofit nav from scratch, I'm sure you can upgrade - although it will probably cost as much as a whole new nav install.

So rather than speculate if it's possible, we need to talk to some 3 series owners that already have the new idrive and see how the guts are different from the previous 3 series.

Any 3 owners here??

[Shinchan]

just wondering the life span of hard drive in a moving car.... Hard Drive in general is like record player that need a needle touching the physical plate. Notebook has some sensor to part the drive head if it detect falling... or notebook is moving... but car is constantly on the move... what prevent it from not damage the plate? Have anyone ever drop a laptop accidentally.. while the power is on? U damange the HD...... imaging hitting a nasty bump.. damage the rim.. and also Damage the HD... total disaster...

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by Shinchan

just wondering the life span of hard drive in a moving car.... Hard Drive in general is like record player that need a needle touching the physical plate. Notebook has some sensor to part the drive head if it detect falling... or notebook is moving... but car is constantly on the move... what prevent it from not damage the plate? Have anyone ever drop a laptop accidentally.. while the power is on? U damange the HD...... imaging hitting a nasty bump.. damage the rim.. and also Damage the HD... total disaster...

Unlike the usual hard drive in most laptops, solid state hard drives have no moving parts. Some of the new laptops these days have solid state drives.

[tim-atl]

Originally Posted by Shinchan

just wondering the life span of hard drive in a moving car.... Hard Drive in general is like record player that need a needle touching the physical plate. Notebook has some sensor to part the drive head if it detect falling... or notebook is moving... but car is constantly on the move... what prevent it from not damage the plate? Have anyone ever drop a laptop accidentally.. while the power is on? U damange the HD...... imaging hitting a nasty bump.. damage the rim.. and also Damage the HD... total disaster...

Infiniti has been doing this for two years with no problems that I have heard of. I would assume they are using solid state as well since vibration could be a problem. The head in a harddrive doesn't actually touch the platter but your points are still valid.

Tim

[Craig]

Originally Posted by LeMansX5

Unlike the usual hard drive in most laptops, solid state hard drives have no moving parts. Some of the new laptops these days have solid state drives.

Craig

[IloveNYC]

In Germany also several enginge updates, 30d (235hp->245hp) and 35d (286hp->300hp) are discussed. Maybe BMW opens NAIAS with a bang!? ;-) For my opinion the engine update is not realistic because of the recently US market introduction for the Diesel technologie... A slight chance for the European market may exist.

More German dealers confirmed new iDrive (X5 X6) for March 09 production today. Several forum users called their dealers and posted the results.

[LeMansX5]

Teaser pics from X5 ///M thread on how the new iDrive controller will look in X5.

[X5 Meister]

Seems like the i-drive knob is not in the greatest location because of the shifter. Probably an improvement over the one in the E53 though.

[Sher KamaL]

E53 did not have an i-drive knob, unless the rest of the world missed something, LOL...