It wasn't the greatest remote in the world, and Apple's handling of it visa-vie the cord length was pretty half-assed. But there are all sorts of situations where it is convenient …

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise Why are some people incapable of understanding that others may have different needs than their own? "Thank god?" The remote's very existence …

To slightly divert the topic, it now looks like any in-line remotes for any iPod generation are going the way of the dodo. If I want to pick one up for my iPod photo, should I get…

I only know of one third party remote, but there are probably more. I bought one of these a while ago. It's very cheap feeling (very light and the buttons are kind of crappy) but i…

I actually liked the remote. I had the SP style inner ear headphones from sony so the cord was really short. The apple remote plus those were a great length.

The iFM might be a possible remote alternative for the new iPods. It is an FM radio tuner, but also acts as a remote control that plugs into the dock connector. Apparently you have…

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise Why are some people incapable of understanding that others may have different needs than their own? "Thank god?" The remote's very existence …

Quote: Originally Posted by mathew_m Remember you're talking about the Star Wars dude. His relevance resides solely in the MacNN forums. Regarding the remote, they probably cu…

Although I never really used the remote that much, I think they should have kept it. At least they should have kept the connector and made the remote an option. Apparently, Apple t…

Quote: Originally Posted by mathew_m Regarding the remote, they probably cut it out of the package for the same reasons that they left out the charger because it costs money. …

Icruise, thank you for posting that alternative and wish I had saw that a few months ago. Although I now have the logitech wi-fi headphones, I will definitely recommend this remote…

hiya, I recently sold my 4th gen b/w 40gb ipod for $300 to someone at work to go towards a 60g 5th gen black video (drool). Anyway, im a mac user and the person i sold the ipod to…

He has to load iTunes on his PC to get it to be seen as anything other than a generic USB-connected disk drive. There seems to be a version of iTunes for all the current versions …

with the ipod updater does he click on update or restore? is there anyway to do this w/out losing the content thats in the ipod itself??

I'm thinking about buying the 15" Powerbook released today, and my main consideration is 100 GB 7200-rpm HD vs. 120 GB 5400-rpm HD. Will the 7200-rpm hard drive use more power than…

I am also in the same consideration. Any help on this would be great. Also, is there a significant performance increase? Say the same increase in going from a 4200 to a 5400? Beca…

I'm curious about the performance increase too? I know a 7200 will be faster than a 5400, but is it "worth the $200" snappier?

I posted a thread awhile back all about the 100GB 7200rpm drive, comparing it to the 5400rpm drive, and providing links to pages online that compare them. The brief version is tha…

I just ordered it. I'll let you know I've also heard that it actually makes marginal difference. But, if it's <10% battery power, I'll take a 10% increase in speed and product…

7200RPM drives have a higher idle power consumption, but the active power consumption is only a tiny bit higher. In both cases, it's not going to make a huge difference in real use…

iomatic: I hear newegg is a good place to buy RAM. Without a specific link, I can't tell if the RAM you're looking at is the same as the RAM in the Powerbook. So the speed is sli…

tooki > can you elaborate on this a bit? Does this mean the 7200 would eat up more battery when the HD is not doing anything? That sounds really bad! When you say the differen…

Quote: Originally Posted by Fusion I have a 100gb 5400 drive in my powerbook right now, and I am very impressed with the performance. In ordering the new one, I was immediately …

Quote: Originally Posted by iomatic What I want to know is, can you use the 533MHz RAM that's only available through dealram and pricegrabber? Yes. No problem. Although it…

The difference in power draw is tiny. Below are the power numbers for Hitachi drives, but they should be similar for other brands Hitachi 5K100 (5400RPM): Startup (peak, max.) 5.…