Quote: Originally posted by typoon: 1. What I would like to see is Color screens all around If Apple did that there would be less reason to buy the expensive iPod …

Quote: Originally posted by ManOfSteal: False. It's "perfectly capable"...now, if it's "perfectly optimal", that's another story. Actually: CoreImage is a capabili…

Quote: Originally posted by OmniX: Actually: CoreImage is a capability of Tiger, and a non programmable GPU such as the 9200 can't fully support many of CoreImage's func…

Quote: Originally posted by nbnz: Anyway, back on topic, I want to see user replaceable batteries in iPods - but don't think it'll happen as it'll mess with the clean de…

Didn't Toshiba announce that the 80Gb 1.8" drives would be ready to roll in Autumn? I'd say that there will be 80Gb iPods pre Christmas, maybe pre school year. Until then, small up…

My 3G iPod has finally died for good, and I'm faced with having to replace it. I've never been wowed by the 4G enough to be actually happy about the need to upgrade. I have a 15G…

KP* - first of all, iPods don't die for good, they just die in such a way that replacement parts costs are outweighed by the lesser cost of getting a new one. If it's the battery,…

nbnz et al: see interesting post today from Macintouch: -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm a previous iBook owner who is looking to buy a new…

It all comes down to where you place your quotes... "perfectly" capable "perfectly capable" "Capable to run is one thing" "perfectly" capable is another thing. ;-) Quote: …

I just wanted to share an experience with my fellow iPodders. Today I attempted to charge my 4G iPod using one of those USB port car chargers and a Firewire/USB port adaptor from …

I'm not sure I understand how you "reversed the polarity." Do you mean you put the cable in backwards or something? It doesn't make sense. And are you actually opening your iPod…

There are bad car adapters and there are good ones. A good one should cause no such problem. Same goes for cell phone chargers.

I believe Eug pretty much nailed it, I think it's the quality of the charger I used. No I did not put it in backwards, that would require some force. I might be using the wrong t…

Well, I am not sure what happened, but I left the iPod charging over night. When I got up this morning I attempted to do a hard reset to no avail. I continued charging through ou…

One thing that has always ticked me off about Audible's radio news things, is that they come in one big file, and you couldn't shuffle up news stories with your music. Now that the…

Quick question: I want to partition my 60 gb iPhoto so I can have backups on one partition, and a complete version of my PB HD on the other. The reason: I don't want to re-do my ba…

Well, if you're prepared to work with Terminal a bit and take the risk of buggering up your iPod, check out the link. Be sure to read, re-read, and understand both the warning at t…

Ummmm . . . never mind. Had no idea (obviously) what I was really asking. Thanks for the link and the warning. On to a different project.

Don't partition. It\s silly and something that peecee people are taught. Simply enable the iPod for usage as a disk drive and you'll be fine. I have a 60 photo model and have my en…

Does the option to have the time displayed at the top of every screen have any impact whatsoever on battery life?

Nope. No more than having text displayed on the screen at any given time. Battery power is affected by HD spins (switching lots of tracks), sound check, and the backlight. W…

I just got a 60 gig iPod photo and im actually leery on usin the photo feature much cus it accesses the hardrive so much, it seems that it starts spinning every time i want to view…

Don't worry, the HDs in newer iPods are rated to last almost as long as laptop drives, as opposed to the much fewer hours for the ones in the first iPods.

oh cool, i didn't know, i though theh hadn't changed much and i remmeber hearin how the old drives won't take as much constant access. My 5 gig did me proud for 3 years. Too bad…

My current 3G does it every once in a while, the loud noise, but I've dealt with it and I hardly notice it anymore. It's supposedly 100% normal. So don't worry, go crazy using your…