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iPod What is your oldest iPod that's still in daily use?
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My 2g Nano blue. Bought it as used and use it for gym. Just sold my iPod Photo,20gig.... Considering buying a iPod Mini though just for fun. Anyone who has one he/she wants to sell and ship to Europe?
.What's that CF mod some of you were talking about?
2gig 2ng gen nano (silver). I use it everyday at the Jim (Gym). damn thing stinks. Does anyone know how to get the stink out?
I use my 1st gen. 10GB iPod daily as a paper weight - but it does still work to play music, although I've had to replace the firewire connector twice...hope it lasts, because there's not much left to solder it to on the circuit board.
Got a 1st gen. 4GB Nano that I use everyday.
Got a 1st gen. 4GB Nano that I use everyday.
My 2g Nano blue. Bought it as used and use it for gym. Just sold my iPod Photo,20gig.... Considering buying a iPod Mini though just for fun. Anyone who has one he/she wants to sell and ship to Europe?
What's that CF mod some of you were talking about?
The CF mod is basically replacing the Mini's microdrive with a CF card, which gives you longer battery life and the option to have storage up to 128GB. Works just like the original microdrive.
Anyway, I have a 5G 30GB iPod Video as my main iPod, not the current gen so I guess it's "old". Not planning on upgrading for a few years
3G 15GB is still going strong after almost 4 years. Battery is pretty much shot but I use it only at work in a dock from 7am-6pm. That's a lot of tunes in 4 years.
BTW, I loves me some lighted buttons on the 3G.
Me too!!! Still going strong, but I changed the battery once. Best $5 I ever spent on eBay. (Although I just bought a touch)
2nd gen iPod Mini that normally sits in a drawer connected to my Xbox 360 as a media store. It's been about a year since the poor thing has seen daylight so just got it out now and absolutley amazed at how far the iPod range has come in three years. I guess we tend not to notice when it goes mini > Nano1 > Nano2 > Nano3 (to say nothing about the Touch) but when you hold a Mini next to the current Nano it's shocking, especially in the screen real estate.
3G 15GB 6 years old, still going!!!
I have replaced the battery on my 3G 15GB iPod, twice, and it still runs great!!! I am frankly shocked, that the hard drive is still running... but even when that chokes, I will replace it with a slightly bigger drive. I see no reason to upgrade, as I only need it for music. I listen to music @ work, 7 hours a day, 50 weeks... that's 1,750 hours a year, and I have been doing this for 6 years... that's 10,500 hours of music play!!! Amazing. I know most other folks would give up the ghost, upgrade to newer iPods with more features, but I guess I'm old school, my phone is a phone, my iPod is my music, and my computer is my internet. Someday I will get an iTouch, but for now I am quite happy with my 6 year old iPod.
I have replaced the battery on my 3G 15GB iPod, twice, and it still runs great!!! I am frankly shocked, that the hard drive is still running... but even when that chokes, I will replace it with a slightly bigger drive. I see no reason to upgrade, as I only need it for music. I listen to music @ work, 7 hours a day, 50 weeks... that's 1,750 hours a year, and I have been doing this for 6 years... that's 10,500 hours of music play!!! Amazing. I know most other folks would give up the ghost, upgrade to newer iPods with more features, but I guess I'm old school, my phone is a phone, my iPod is my music, and my computer is my internet. Someday I will get an iTouch, but for now I am quite happy with my 6 year old iPod.
iPod Mini 4GB Pink - the Mrs iPod bough in 2005 used almost every day in my daughters bedroom playing nursery rymes and audiobooks
I'm still using my old 60GB photo which is nearly 5 years old.
The battery is on it's last legs but it's mainly used in the car, plugged into the lighter socket and running with an iTrip.
The battery is on it's last legs but it's mainly used in the car, plugged into the lighter socket and running with an iTrip.
My 20GB B&W is used every night to play bedtime songs for my son. It's one of the few ways we can routinely get him to sleep! So it's definitely serving a very vital function ~4 years after I first bought it.
I still use my 2nd Gen 10gig; it's my "car iPod." I did change out the battery a few years ago (when it was still my sole iPod). It's a great iPod for the car; with the "real" buttons, and not quite as sensitive touch, it's easy to scroll and find what I want without having to look at it.
Unfortunately, the hard drive is, I think, starting to go; if I try to skip through a bunch of songs in a row, it has a tendency to freeze and needs to be reset.
Unfortunately, the hard drive is, I think, starting to go; if I try to skip through a bunch of songs in a row, it has a tendency to freeze and needs to be reset.
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I still have 40GB 3g used every day for audiobooks and in the car.
My wife has a 20gb 4g photo
I still have 40GB 3g used every day for audiobooks and in the car.
My wife has a 20gb 4g photo
iPod - 3G - 20GB.
It's hooked up to a Tivoli Audio Kloss One next to my daughters bed. She uses it for listening to bedtime stories. The battery is almost dead, but its hooked up to the power adaptor, anyway. Otherwise it's in perfect working condition.
We also use our iPod Shuffle - 0.5 GB - 1st gen from time to time...
It's hooked up to a Tivoli Audio Kloss One next to my daughters bed. She uses it for listening to bedtime stories. The battery is almost dead, but its hooked up to the power adaptor, anyway. Otherwise it's in perfect working condition.
We also use our iPod Shuffle - 0.5 GB - 1st gen from time to time...
Oldest ones I use almost every day are a green 1G mini and the first U2 one, the one that was just audio. They both get used mostly in speaker docks, so their likely quite low battery capability is not an issue. And I rarely change up the playlist they're in, just hit pause and turn off the speaker and walk away, so they don't get a lot of drive wear.
I used a 15GB 3G iPod everyday until I got a Classic about 2 weeks ago. The 3G is my favorite iPod, I prefer the buttons to the click wheel because it doesn't take any pressure to active the 3G. You have the grip the Classic to push the buttons which is annoying when it's in a dock.
I still use the 3G in my car and when I go places I don't want to take the Classic.
I still use the 3G in my car and when I go places I don't want to take the Classic.