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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Well having recently dropped my trusty 30gb Video (and buggering it) - I went out and forked over a rediculous ammount for the new iPod touch, mainly because I wanted flash memory (not harddrive like the old video). It's very sexy indeed.
But one problem (one huge sodding problem) - It appears that Apple have taken away the option of using it as a mass storage device. Being a uni student, I use this feature almost everyday. What gives? Or am I just blind? Apple manages to me off yet again. |
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mate screw ipod, i changed to creative and its like an 80gig usb. No converting music, better sound, cheaper, doesn't break, more user friendly. best of all plug it in and put whatever you want straight on.
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Another vote for Creative here!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Same thing was happening to my brothers nano. iTunes has a setting you have to disable that hides the device once you've plugged it in. If you connect it to a pc without iTunes installed it should work like normal.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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if the sales kid told you something about the product that you specifically asked for and bought it for that reason, take it back and tell them, surely they'd offer to exchange it.
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Cuban... nothing like it
Join Date: Dec 2004
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If they dont take it back and swap, and you used your credit card, dispute the transaction as failure to deliver as detailed
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Beyond that, what makes the touch awesome? I'm not that gadgety and happy to have a device that can store, play back mp3 and have the ability to bookmark, but what features does the touch have over your plain old iPod? |
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The new touch has Wifi and the fairly decent screen size makes it worth while. It also has a decent internet explorer - at uni we have free student wireless broadband so this is very useful to me in boring lectures. It's a massive step up from the traditional iPod. Oh and it has a YouTube function; can't beat that in boring lectures! I suggest you take a look at one to understand the difference; I actually went into the store to buy the new iPod "classic" (Video), and had a play with the Touch and was sold, even though it was a few hundy more. |
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excuse my technoligy disability. but i have the 80g and thats all i thought you could store. ![]()
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Or you could just buy a $20 1gb usb flash drive for your uni stuff. im sure it couldn't be that much of an inconvenience.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Ipod's are abit overrated i think. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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yeah the classic looks to me like a better bang for you buck bargin atm.
160GB ipod is awesome and like all things is going to have fanboys and haters. I've had 2 ipods, a creative and an iriver and the only thing I dislike about my ipod is having to use itunes to update instead of drag and drop. It's an inconvience but in a way it's also useful so I take the good with the bad. I like the iphone and the itouch clone, but I think it's too early to buy and until they iron out the bugs and the hacks start coming out i'll wait till christmas till my phone contract runs out. hope it works out for you, i've seen some videos of it working and it looks like the gadget of the future |
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There's also 3rd party software you can install on the iPod and dual boot to it if you wish. Rockbox (from memory) was one of those. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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The best MP3 brand out at the moment would have to be SAMSUNG.
They use flash memory - but dont have the large capacity products like the opposition which is their only downside. but if 8 gig is enough for you iw ould highly reccommend the SAMSUNG products. THe new T10 is out very soon and will be an Ipod Nano KILLER. just my 2c guys |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South Australia
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The iPod Touch and Nano both also use Flash memory...
I have no issues at all with itunes or any of my/my GF's iPods.. but then I have heard the OSX version of itunes is much better than the Winblows version... I assumed the Touch could be mass storage as well.. weird how it isnt seeing both my new Classic and my GF's new Nano have the option. Are you sure you've checked the box saying use as a mass storage device? |
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Guess who Apple buy their flash memory from.....
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Most of the new gen ones actually have Toshiba flash memory in them, though some have been seen with Samsung chips still
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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My PalmOne was cheaper new, and does eveything the ipods does and more !. I dont even know why you would bother with ipods ?????????
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Perth
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I'll sell ya a 30GB ipod video cheap!
I bought 1, only used it long enough for the battery to go flat about 3 times and its sat in my glovebox ever since. I've got an IPAQ and a couple of big SD cards with music and videos, it has tom tom GPS maps and reciever, and does a million other things my ipod doesnt. Also got an N95 so ipod was just more of a pain in the *** for me. Just another thing to carry, another charger, blah blah blah blah blah. |
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