All you smartypants out there,

1.) How come if my Ipod is supposed to have 80G memory, when I'm syncing my Ipod to my laptop, it says total capacity is only 74.40? Do my photos shorten the memory somehow?

2.) Have any of you guys used Imovie? Are there any filmmakers out there? Even recreationally? I'm thinking of making a short movie and wondering who already has experience...

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It's the same with mine; it is actually supposed to have 8 G, although on the computer, it says 7 something. I don't really know where the rest went, because it already was that way when there wasn't any music or anything on the I-Pod.
But it seems logical that the photos shorten the memory.

I-Pod actually isn't as good as everyone says. I've heard from a lot of people that their I-Pods just suddenly stopped working or had issues. Mine for example deleted 3/4 of my songs last time I charged it, just like that!!!! I'd just throw it out of the window if I weren't so obsessed with my music^^

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Woah! It deleted 3/4s of your songs?! That can't be normal. Did you connect it to a computer other than your own to charge it? That might have screwed things up... Do you have the Mac protection plan or did you buy it recently enough that you can still return it? I would contact the Apple website about that.

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my 80gb said the same thing at first. Prolly cause the games and programs on there and stuff. It all adds up to 80gb.

No, I didn't connect it to a different computer, it's really weird. The first time, the songs went down from over 2000 to 400. After I charged the I-Pod a second time, there were 600 songs...I'm going to try that for as long until all the songs are on it again. In case that doesn't work, I still can return it for 2 years or so...

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The short answer is that whatever a storage device is advertised to be it is actually less.
Example an 80GB hard drive actually has only 74.5 GB. Thats just the way it is.

here is the long answer:


Advertised vs. Actual

Since consumers don't think in base 2 mathematics, manufacturers decided to rate most drive capacities based on the standard base 10 numbers we are all familiar with. Therefore, one Megabyte equals one million bytes while one Gigabyte equals one billion bytes. This isn't too much of a problem with fairly small numbers such as a Kilobyte, but each level of increase in the prefix also increased the total discrepancy of the actual space compared to the advertised space.

Here is a quick reference to show the amount that the actual values differ compared to the advertised for each common referenced value:

Megabyte Difference = 48,576 Bytes
Gigabyte Difference = 73,741,824 Bytes
Terabyte Difference = 99,511,627,776 Bytes
Based on this, for each Gigabyte that a drive manufacturer claims, they are over reporting the amount of disk space by 73,741,824 Bytes or roughly 70.3 MB of disk space. So, if a manufacturer advertises an 80 GB (80 billion bytes) hard drive, the actual disk space is around 74.5 GB of space, roughly 7% less than what they advertise.

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My Ipod froze one time a few months ago and I took it to the Apple Store and they just gave me a new one. No questions asked.

I did have to scedule an appointment to see a tech, you can't just show up.

If you have your music saved on your computer you can always re-sync your Ipod.
I think it is a great product.

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Mine has developed its own will. It has decided that deleting 3/4 of my music wasn't enough and from now on doesn't let me put new music on it. It just says "Undefined error". Stupid thing.

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- Does anyone know how to use a gun?
- I think you just pull the trigger.

- Hey kid, what's eating you?
- Nothing, he's at the top of the food chain!
(The Lion King^^)

It's actually very smart.

thats true.

I've never had any problems with my ipods