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…

oh i didnt hear any loud noise i just felt the hardrive startup as i was scrollin thru my pictures and thought it was odd that it cant just store a folder of pix in its ram when th…

Has anyone noticed that the images of the new PowerBooks are a lot brighter than old images? I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint, and is responding to …

my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes

Quote: Originally posted by nuggetman: my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes You've obviously nev…

most laptops screen have horrible quality outside...

The same applies to my iBook. I was in Starbucks the other day with it and had to ask an employee to put the window shades down, as the afternoon sun was making my iBook screen har…

Apple has always had pretty good screens.

Quote: Originally posted by ender2002: most laptops screen have horrible quality outside... Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios...

Fujitsu has the "Crystal View Outdoor Enhanced Screen" where as Sony simply calls it "XBRITE". Not sure what other PC manufacturers call this technology but there definitely is a d…

Quote: Originally posted by TailsToo: Apple has always had pretty good screens. Yeah, I agree. Comparing to the Dell laptops that we use at school, (Centrino) the …

I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in my mind that the pictures on the screens were Pho…

Quote: Originally posted by WJMoore: I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in m…

Yep for sure.... It would be nice if Apple at least made better screens available BTO, kind of like, dare I say it, dell. You can up the price of a machine by quite a bit just by t…

Quote: Originally posted by TailsToo: Correct! The images on the screens are not real - there is no way to tell brightness from the images on the website. Oy. I am a…

Quote: Originally posted by tavilach: Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios... Which would be indoors, then?

Quote: Originally posted by tavilach: I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint To be honest, I haven't heard of any screen brightness compl…