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The other day I blogged about changing my iPod’s file system to Macintosh. Since then my iPod has seemed much more responsive and I was very happy with the results. Anyway, I made another iPod switch last night.
No, I didn’t reformat my iPod with a Windows file system. I bumped up to an 80GB Video iPod. A good friend of mine, Jason, called me up asking if I knew of anyone interested in selling a 30GB Video iPod. I have been wanting to get an 80GB for quite sometime now as my 30GB iPod was nearing its capacity. I told him I would sell him mine and he was in. We negotiated the price and it was a done deal.
I went to Best Buy last night and got my new 80GB Video iPod. It is a bit beefier than the 30GB version but still small enough to amaze you that there is an 80GB drive in there, plus a LCD screen and click-wheel. Unfortunately, there are not really any other enhancements over the 30GB other than the search feature that the 80GB has to offer. I haven’t used it yet, but Chris, another good friend of mine, uses his search feature on his 80GB iPod and says it comes in quite handy.
I look forward to my 80GB iPod experiences and hope to completely load it up with music and videos someday. I am at about 27GB to 28GB of music, videos, and album art right now, so I have a little way to go. 80GB is a lot of data, no matter what the data is. And, putting that much data on a device that is 4.1 inches high, 2.4 inches wide, just over a half of an inch deep, and weighing in at 5.5 ounces is quite impressive! If you don’t have an iPod, get on!
Until next time…
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March 27th, 2007 at 12:10 PM
I love my iPod. 80 gigs might sound a bit extreme to the people who can’t fill a 2GB Shuffle, but lemme tell ya .. that thing can hold a LOT more than music.
Let me power mine up, hold on.
While it’s turning on, I’ll introduce you to a software application you may or may not know about. It’s called SharePod and it’s absolutely great. It runs FROM the iPod so you always have it and it lets you transfer songs to and from it. It also does a lot of other cool features, but all I use it for is pulling songs off to “let a friend borrow”.
http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=iPod+Programs&Page=SharePod
It doesn’t work with the 80GB models for transferring songs TO, but I have iTunes for that.
Speaking of which, let me get that application started. Yes, it’s bloated but big apps need love, too.
OK, according to iTunes, I’m using:
30.80 GB Audio
02.20 GB Video
186.1 MB Photos
10.12 GB Other
21.08 GB Free Space
Now let’s break that down.
Audio: 5670 songs. I don’t know how/have access to view the number of playlists. I have about 20 smart playlists and another one for every album. I probably have over 200 playlists. I also have quite a subscription to podcasts which seem to total about 57 items using 3 GB, some of which are video.
Video: 9 small movie files and a lot of podcasts. Small movie files are some Google videos (just copied over Malware Analysis: Rootkits from Google Video the other day), some from poorboys.tv, some from purepwnage.com and I’ve been thinking of getting a semi-automated way of putting the new Red vs. Blue episodes on there.
Photos: I have quite the collection of wallpapers and such that I like to keep in one place wherever I go. I’m not crazy about the way Apple stores them on the iPod but at least I have them in one place. I need to remove the iTunes sync’ing away from the Photos and just copy them over manually in disk mode.
10 gigs of Other. This is all disk mode stuff. I have a lot of personal data on there (all encrypted with TrueCrypt, of course), the whole archive of Red vs. Blue to watch when I get time, iso’s of Linux distros, and just a bunch of random stuff that I like to keep around for that one time I’ll need it. It’s not like I don’t have room for it all on this thing.
20 GB of free space. At my rate that won’t last long. When is Apple releasing a 1 TB iPod? I’ll probably be first in line.
If there are any better ways to manage a traveling iPod, please let me know.
And, believe it or not, I don’t have one single scratch on my baby. I bought a plastic case from Target with it and I left that clear plastic protective sheet on the iPod itself.
iPods are teh win!
FromMarch 29th, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Yeah, Jeff I appreciate it. Anyway, I don’t put other stuff on mine besides Music and Videos, but I used to. I used to put my Outlook Contacts in mine, just so I always had them with me in the car. Chris a 1TB iPod would be nuts. Right now, that would cost like $2000, but it would be pimp.
jason
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