I doubt Apple is planning on supporting any old PC. For one thing, with each new revision of OS X Intel, more and more kexts start disappearing which used to support older hardware…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit Sure, Apple might go to an OS-only strategy when the hardware is making them less money than they would on software. And Canada might become …

It would be great if Apple released a commercial that pissed off the entire news media, technology industry, and Windows users. But that probably won't happen.

everytime I try and connect my Nano to a Win XP computer to use the hard disk functions for files, I get a message saying that the disk needs to be formated. It then gives me the …

Its formatted for mac. It has to be formatted for windows in order for windows xp to read it. If you format it FAT for windows, both computers should be able to read and write.

Gir- what do you mean by "if you format it FAT for windows?"

And why would I need to? Shouldn't the iPod already be formated to work with the two systems? Just a little lost on this whole situation.

When the iPod is formatted on a Mac, it gets written with the OS X filesystem, which Windows can't read or write. When the iPod is formatted in Windows (as it's asking you to do),…

will it still work with itunes on the mac?

It worked fine on the iBook, iTunes and all. I formated it like said to FAT32 on the XP box. I then got a B&W battery image with (!) in triangle on the nano screen. I remove…

This is really getting stupid. I managed to restore the software on the Nano. When I restore the factory settings on the mac, it asks to be formated on the XP. When restore on X…

You need to set the iPod up on the Windows PC, using the supplied iPod Software Updater (or even better, the latest iPod Software Updater downloaded from the iPod + iTunes section…

analogika That seemed to have fixed it. It now works well with both platforms. Thanks for the walk through on this. I am a little dumber than I thought.

No, you're not. Glad it worked.

Even your nano hates windows. JK, just format it for windows and it will be readable by both platforms

I believe we'd got that far.

Great explanation, analogika. There's some reasonable confusion about what "formatted for Windows" means when talking about an iPod. It DOES NOT mean that the internal drive is f…

I have some ideas for a mail plug-in and also a application service (item in the Services sub-menu under the application menu). I'm pretty new to Mac programming so can't just wor…

hi there, this may have been dealt with already, but can an ipod+HP work on my mac, or only on PC. thanks in advance for your help.

It may be formatted for PCs out of the box but you can just reformat it on your mac. It should behave normally since as far as I know the only difference is the logo on the back.

iPod = iPod. Marketed by HP makes it just slightly different in its packaging-and maybe it's preformatted for PCs. An iPod straight from Apple comes ready to set up with either p…

Yes it will work. But I couldn't stand having an iPod with the HP logo!

I was checking out some of our local stores to see if i can buy a new nano and when i get to one of the stores got surprise when i saw how the shuffle got a very low price and wh…

Where do you live?

The land of apostrophe abuse....