I am ready to give my iPod up for dead and get a new one. My problems with my 20G iPod (until the end when the click wheel died) has mainly had to do with the disk drive. I will totally admit that I am hard on devices, but they give as good as they get. Are the Nanos with a flash drive any more stable than the larger iPods? Will their smaller size make them more vulnerable when (not if) I drop it? Advice anyone?
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Sue - Jul 20, 2007 4:35:09 am PDT #2199 of 25496
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2007 4:39:01 am PDT #2200 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Nanos have no moving parts and are quite durable. Maybe I'll look for a link - these people tried to see how much abuse a Nano (1st gen) could take - they dropped it on the ground repeatedly and it worked fine. They dropped it on the pavement from a car moving at 55mph and it got all scratched up but continued to work fine. Then (IIRC) they drove over it - the LCD display broke but it otherwise continued to work fine.
eta: Here we go. Looks like I got some of the details wrong... [link]
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2007 4:40:04 am PDT #2201 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The iPod nanos are pretty hard to kill.
Sue - Jul 20, 2007 4:54:10 am PDT #2202 of 25496
hip deep in pie
Nice crosspost. Thanks guys.
It sounds like a nano is the thing for me. I will promise not throw it up in the air after it's been repeatedly run over.
Lee - Jul 20, 2007 9:06:45 am PDT #2203 of 25496
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Nanos are tough, in my experience. I drop my nano at least once a week, plus Perkins the cat has decided that the earphone cord is one of his favorite toys (he's managed to pull it out of my purse more than once), and it's still fine.
NSM the ear buds, but they are cheap to replace.
Sue - Jul 20, 2007 9:15:23 am PDT #2204 of 25496
hip deep in pie
I don't use the earbuds anyway, so that doesn't matter. I think I'll order the 8G nano. I'm cashing in some Visa points to get a gift card to help pay for it, so it'll have to wait a few weeks. In the meantime, I'll be probably playing my ipod on shuffle, since it requires the least navigation.
NoiseDesign - Jul 20, 2007 7:07:47 pm PDT #2205 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
I've got an 8 GB nano that's pretty robust.
Dana - Jul 22, 2007 4:27:50 pm PDT #2206 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You can currently get a 320GB external Seagate hard drive at Best Buy for $99. If anyone else is looking to buy.
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2007 7:27:56 am PDT #2207 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just bought a PC at Fry's for $150 (after $100 rebate). I am such a sucker. I consider it some sort of odd virtue that I didn't buy the $179 PC, nor a new flatscreen monitor (I'm scared to check the specs of the one I have now, because if the $200+ one beats it...no, I need to learn restraint).
But basically I figure I've upgraded my Linux box from what was cheap and easy to get in 2000 to what's cheap and easy in 2007.
Next step? Find out how much I can upgrade the hardware itself.
I remember asking before what people did for backup and didn't get much. Do you guys not back up? Mirror? Anything?
Tom Scola - Jul 23, 2007 7:28:52 am PDT #2208 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I periodically use rsync to mirror my disk to an external drive.