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Punchy
12-02-2005, 01:28 AM
My iPod mini's battery is dead. It won't charge all the way and it will only play for about 10 minutes before dying. It sucks.

So I go to the Mac store today and they tell me I have to make an appointment to have someone change my battery, but I have to do it online. So I try to make the appointment online and it tells me I can't and I need to buy AppleCare or whatever it is called.

So I'm stuck in this city for another month without my music. Is it really that hard to change an iPod battery? I'm going to go insane without it. Please someone help!
howyadoin
12-02-2005, 03:12 AM
My iPod mini's battery is dead. It won't charge all the way and it will only play for about 10 minutes before dying. It sucks.Do you have an adapter so you can plug it in?
So I go to the Mac store today and they tell me I have to make an appointment to have someone change my battery, but I have to do it online. So I try to make the appointment online and it tells me I can't and I need to buy AppleCare or whatever it is called.The AppleCare's like an extended warranty. But even if you don't have it, they should still be able to fix the Pod; you'll probably just end up having to pay for it.
So I'm stuck in this city for another month without my music. Is it really that hard to change an iPod battery? I'm going to go insane without it. Please someone help!Maybe Morts could make it work. He's one of those computer nerds, y'know.
Punchy
12-02-2005, 08:51 AM
Thanks for the suggestions.

The thing is I can't even MAKE an appointment without the AppleCare since there are so many people trying to get appointments with them. It's a friggin' racket!
Shellhead
12-02-2005, 01:30 PM
Apple has come out with some great products over the years, but there are two ongoing problems that keep me from becoming a customer. First, they tend to be overpriced. Second, they don't seem interested in consumer input until the finished product is on the shelves. A few years back, their great new computer didn't have a disk drive, because they assumed that nobody uses them anymore. With iPod, they assumed that people would just buy a new one when their battery went dead, so they didn't make it reasonable for the customer to replace a dead battery.
howyadoin
12-02-2005, 03:11 PM
their great new computer didn't have a disk drive, because they assumed that nobody uses them anymore.Are you talkin' about floppies? Most of the files on my iMac are too big to fit on one.
Shellhead
12-02-2005, 03:36 PM
Are you talkin' about floppies? Most of the files on my iMac are too big to fit on one.

I thought that the iMac lacked a disk drive, such that users had to buy an external unit from another company, just to be able to work with CD-ROMs.
Pepsigirl
12-02-2005, 04:11 PM
My iPod mini's battery is dead. It won't charge all the way and it will only play for about 10 minutes before dying. It sucks.


The same thing happened to me, and they refused a repair when I went to Apple's website, also. I ended up getting an 30GB iPod Photo for free though, so I kind of gave up on it.

I've heard people say that iPod's batteries die completely after 18 months, but I'm not sure if there's any truth to that.
Tadhg
12-02-2005, 04:16 PM
I thought that the iMac lacked a disk drive, such that users had to buy an external unit from another company, just to be able to work with CD-ROMs.

It lacked a floppy drive. All iMacs had CD-drives and were one of the first consumer computers to ship with CD-R Drives.(And the PowerMac was the first affordable Desktop to offer a DVD Burner).

And as to the lack of a replaceable battery, it's because it would add size and bulk to the iPod to allow for a replaceable battery and Jobs's biggest concern is form, sometimes at the expense of function. I think it's kind of dumb, but it's not the hugest deal in the world
Sheldon
12-02-2005, 04:16 PM
I thought that the iMac lacked a disk drive, such that users had to buy an external unit from another company, just to be able to work with CD-ROMs.

People don't use 3.5 inch floppies any more. USB flash drives are the way now...pretty much all laptops don't come with 3.5 inch drives...and thank goodness...they are are so unreliable, slow and just add unnecessary bulk.
howyadoin
12-02-2005, 04:16 PM
I thought that the iMac lacked a disk drive, such that users had to buy an external unit from another company, just to be able to work with CD-ROMs.That's the first I heard of that, and I have an iMac.
I've heard people say that iPod's batteries die completely after 18 months, but I'm not sure if there's any truth to that.Mine lasted a lot longer than that. It'll still hold a charge for short periods of time, but mainly I plug it in with the adapter.
Tadhg
12-02-2005, 04:18 PM
I've heard people say that iPod's batteries die completely after 18 months, but I'm not sure if there's any truth to that.

Not much. I've had one iPod for 2 years and a second for 15 months and neither battery has gone bad(The 2 year old iPod only gets about 4 hours of playback off a full charge now). Some people had batteries die after 18 months, some due to abuse, and others due to bad luck.
cactusmaac
12-02-2005, 05:06 PM
People don't use 3.5 inch floppies any more. USB flash drives are the way now...pretty much all laptops don't come with 3.5 inch drives...and thank goodness...they are are so unreliable, slow and just add unnecessary bulk.

We still use them at work pretty frequently.

Whenever the network's down for maintenance, they're used for passing around files between staff members.

They're cheap, very disposable and can easily fit the files we use.