Sucks. I wish I had gotten a skin for my old 3G. Now I have a new black 5G and I'm babying that thing like none other until the Contour Showcase for 30GB ships.

I prefer the Speck ToughSkin. Those thin skins just don't do it for me. I had a rubber skin from another company and it also didn't sit flush on my iPod video.

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…

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!

Where do you live?

The land of apostrophe abuse....

Is there something in the water where I am, or is the OP NOT using English? I didn't understand the post at all.

Im with you ghporter, I didnt comprehend any of that.

I believe the poster is discussing the already discussed counterfeit iPod shuffle units - the packaging and design looks very similar but it is not the same.

what was c.... supposed to mean? :S

My guess is China. I took a look at my 20 GB iPod (monochrome...4th generation? Came out the same time as the U2 edition) I got here in the US last year and it says on the back,…