Do you have a scheduler one, Jess? I'm trying to work out if I can ever keep the place tidy enough to have it run without me starting it explicitly. At the site where I got it, it was cheaper than the one without a scheduler, so at least I don't feel like there was money wasted if I never make it.

Ran it twice in the living room, and it was way cool to empty the bin with all that fuzz that *I* hadn't had to vacuum myself. There is some lurve.

Do you have a scheduler one, Jess?

No, we just got the basic model. The way our apartment is laid out, there's no way for it to do any room except the living room without being physically picked up and moved there (because of the raised dining area / sunken living rom), so it didn't seem worth the extra expense.

Mine doesn't like my bathroom rug. Not a big deal, except I'll have to remember to shut that door (or put the infrared wall somewhere I won't knock it over).

Still, happy so far. I hope my allergies are too.

When a very old iPod (3rd Gen, I think - the last model w/ the monochrome screen) dies, and multiple Restores and Resets do nothing to bring it back to life, is it worth taking to the Genius Bar, or should we simply mourn its passing an replace it with a newer model? The warranty is long expired.

(DH's iPod has been acting up for the past week or so, and this morning seems to have given up completely. iTunes recognizes it as a broken iPod, but when we restore it, it's still broken. Plugging it into the wall gives us a sad little frowny face icon and instructions to go to the Apple iPod support page online. Apple's support page tells us to restore and reset, which we've already done multiple times.)

There is this internal disk diagnostic you can run on an iPod - I think it's like a checkdisk or something. Have you tried that? (It's been ages since I've done it (on my 3rd Gen iPod) but the Apple website can tell you how you enter the diagnostic mode.)

but the Apple website can tell you how you enter the diagnostic mode.

Huh - I'll have to go back and check it again. I didn't see anything on there about the older generation iPods at all.

Hidden iPod Commands

Weird - reseting it from within Diagnostic Mode seems to have brought it back! (And thanks Tom for the link, since searching the Apple knowledgebase brought up zero helpful results for "diagnostic mode" "diagnostic mode ipod" "diagnostic ipod" or any other of about fifteen searches I tried. It's almost like they don't want you to be able to fix them...)

Oops...spoke too soon. It synched up 3 songs and then froze up again. Now when I try to reset (or do anything) I can hear an ominous clicking sound. Not a good sign,

Yeah, not good. Sounds hardware related, like the drive has gone bad (just a guess on my part).