iPod battery life

[puggit]

Anyone care to comment before I splash out hundreds of dollars on one?

Might get the mini-iPod though and flash it around before its available over here

[dazren]

Less than they advertised. Battery life is rapidly diminished at higher volumes and if you keep swapping tracks/albums etc (4 hours no problem though).

Make sure you get the correct leads to connect to your PC/mac. When I got my ipod it stayed in the box for 2 weeks before the right leads turned up in the post.

DAZ

Other mini iPod thread going:
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=82626

>> Edited by dazren on Thursday 19th February 09:47

[puggit]

Everything at www.jandr.com/JRProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=1&Product_Id=3959045.

4GB, "8 hours"

[page3]

My iPod's over a year old and the battery is as good as ever.

The quoted time is 'best case' though - just like a laptop computer. Doing lots of navigation will reduce it as the hard drive will need to spin up to access your music - in normal play it only needs to do that every 20 minutes or so.

Edited to add - of course the early iPod's do 12 hours, not 8

>> Edited by page3 on Wednesday 18th February 21:42

[trooper1212]

I get around 6 hours sticking it on random and letting it run. It's been the same for the past year and hasn't dropped off yet.

[rdhawkins]

Did anyone here in the States that peolple were sueing Apple as the actual battery life didn't match the stated battery life.

Once upon a time people used to phone customer services to complain, now they sue them instead FFS!

[barry sheene]

If you're looking for more info on the ipod then there's no better place to get it than

www.ipodlounge.com/

..and I get about 8 hours on continuous random on my 40gb ipod. (I tested it
Normally though I charge it every night and listen to it on the motorbike (via an autocomm system) on the way to/from work which is an hour each way.
Love it to bits, much better than the Archos I'd previously been using.