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'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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …