Re: Question - Upgrading from an Original 5GB to 30gb

Morten van Wezel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ipod.ephpod
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hello All,
> 
> About six months after the original iPod came out I 
> bought a brand new 5gb and installed a firewire card in
> my computer and in 20 minutes I was uploading mp3's
> 
> The battery now lasts about 3.5 hours without the
> backlight on.

Note: battery life gets shortened a LOT if you completely let your ipod
run them dry all the time. Lithion Ion systems last longest (and dont
get hurt) when you just recharge them 24/7

> So, I just bought on ebay a sealed 30gb for 448.99
> including shipping, I couldn't resisr, the main
> question is:
> 
> Do I have to load the piece of crap apple software or
> can I just plug it in and ephpod will find it?

Provided it's a windows pod, yes. Even without ephpod, windows will
recognise it.

If it's a mac pod, download the windows convertor from apple.com  and convert it to FAT32. (although ephpod+macopener can read it without converting it, why would you?)

In fact, why would anyone use a MAC-formatted pod? Mac's can read
windows pods fine, mac pods too of course, and windows can just read
windows pods out of the box. What would be the upside of a mac pod be?

All pretty straightforward.


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