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I hate to give doc the satisfaction, but WTF iPods?

I've been considering getting a new one for two reasons. First, I like to run outdoors and my current iPod has a hard drive in it, instead of flash memory, so about two or three times a run it will stop, and I have to stop running and stand still while it recovers itself. Not a huge deal, but a nuisance. And it will occasionally lock up all together and be useless until I can get home and reset it.

Second, I'm going to be taking a longish trip in a while and I was thinking about getting one with longer battery life. My current one can probably go about 10 hours but the new ones say they can do 20 to 24.

BUT! All the new iPods require your computer to have USB 2.0, which mine doesn't. I'm not buying a new computer just to get a new iPod when my current laptop is still perfectly good. What, was firewire sooooooo slow that Apple didn't feel like supporting it anymore?

Isn't this costing them customers? I would totally have given them $250, but because my computer is 4 years old they aren't gonna get that.

G. Keenan wrote:BUT! All the new iPods require your computer to have USB 2.0, which mine doesn't. I'm not buying a new computer just to get a new iPod when my current laptop is still perfectly good. What, was firewire sooooooo slow that Apple didn't feel like supporting it anymore?

Isn't this costing them customers? I would totally have given them $250, but because my computer is 4 years old they aren't gonna get that.

Can't you throw a USB 2.0 card in your computer? I'm pretty certain I did on my fiancee's computer. Gave her something like 4 USB 2.0 ports and I don't think it was very expensive. Not sure about laptops though.

Richie Allen wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:BUT! All the new iPods require your computer to have USB 2.0, which mine doesn't. I'm not buying a new computer just to get a new iPod when my current laptop is still perfectly good. What, was firewire sooooooo slow that Apple didn't feel like supporting it anymore?

Isn't this costing them customers? I would totally have given them $250, but because my computer is 4 years old they aren't gonna get that.

Can't you throw a USB 2.0 card in your computer? I'm pretty certain I did on my fiancee's computer. Gave her something like 4 USB 2.0 ports and I don't think it was very expensive. Not sure about laptops though.

Nah, I'm using a 12 inch powerbook. Not possible.

G. Keenan wrote: I'm using a 12 inch powerbook.

perv

This worked perfectly fine:


and the only reason I bought this:


is because I gave away the Creative. (A guy I was seeing lost his father - and I didn't know what the appropriate response was so I gave him my mp3 player. I thought music might help grief...)

The SanDisk is ok but the Creative was better.

I've never even touched an Ipod so I have no idea what I am missing. I only use my mp3 player for running/working out. Neither has ever "skipped" or stopped working. I work out 1-2 hours a day most days and I have to change the AAA battery about once a month at the most.

edit: and neither cost more than $40

How in the world does your laptop not have any USB 2.0 ports? Was it made during 'Nam?

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:How in the world does your laptop not have any USB 2.0 ports? Was it made during 'Nam?

Apple was slow to jump on the bandwagon, because they invented Firewire and it was about the same speed. There wasn't any need for 2.0 except for certain third party peripherals, and the first iPods were all on Firewire.

G. Keenan wrote:BUT! All the new iPods require your computer to have USB 2.0, which mine doesn't. I'm not buying a new computer just to get a new iPod when my current laptop is still perfectly good. What, was firewire sooooooo slow that Apple didn't feel like supporting it anymore?

While Apple recommends that you have UBS 2.0, the newer iPods (should) be backwards compatible with USB 1.1. They'll just sync really slow.

sorry gk...i have the same problem with my ipod locking up when i run (ugh)

luckily my wife has a newer macbook with usb 2.0

don't know if this will help (looked at quickly/briefly)

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductP ... _Id=199941

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:How in the world does your laptop not have any USB 2.0 ports? Was it made during 'Nam?

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