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Posted on 04/10/2007 9:37:14 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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I suppose there is some truth in this. I still don’t think it would kill them to make a laptop that fit somewhere between a 1300 dollar MacBook and the 2000 dollar MacBook Pro. To me that is the area where they actually don’t have enough choice.
You know, on the iPod, if after filling it with songs, you go to the computer in which the songs are backed-up, and delete them to free up some space, and then change the auto-update feature on iTunes, all the songs on the iPod disappear without warning.
Apple may be “easy-to-use” and this aspect appeals to a lot of users, coupled with the delibrate hiding of advanced settings, but there are some aspects of it that will drive one mad. Processes that don’t ask for user confirmations, for instance. For others that annoying box that Windows keeps popping up for every tiny system change, is appreciable.
:’) “You’re a zealot.” “No, you are.” “I said it first.” “So, I said it better.” ...
My first Apple was Mac+, purchased new. I latter added an external Jasmine 20MB HD. I started doing repair for Whole Earth Access, then Computerware, back when the Quadra 700 was hot stuff.
Now I do technical support for a newspaper running almost all Macs.
The existence of Microsoft completely repudiates this statement.
The vast majority of users complaining about Microsoft products are very unhappy, deeply unsatisfied customers...
My dearest is lucky she got the 13” iBook G4, because it’s too small for me to see.
If she had the 15”, I’d be all over that puppy.
As it is, my Dell and my desktop are outfitted with an aqua knockoff. Expose, Dock, icons, etc.
My point exactly. They are deeply dissatisfied (for good reason, in my opinion) yet there are many, many more of them. Apparently, customer satssfaction ain't all it's cracked up to be.
It isn't a cult. No way.
Funny, I’ve done exactly that and my iPod didn’t auto-delete all the songs on it.
By the way, iTunes *does* ask you if you are sure on major decisions like deleting files. If you check the box that says “don’t ask me this again” it doesn’t (unlike MS). My guess? You checked the box and don’t remember doing it.
I'd say that that's enough warning.
Ahh. Now delete the songs from outside of iTunes. Then try it. It’ll show no such warning.
When deleting files on a computer to free up space, one normally wouldn’t tend to go into each specific program alloted to the files to do so.
An explorer-type program is used usually, and using this is when those wonderful warnings don’t show up.
If the iPod’s interface had been a simple drag-and-drop, this process wouldn’t be necessary. Nor would the redundancy of storing the same files once in the computer’s drive and also in the iPod. When song archives go 40GB to 60GB, this is a real PITA to waste such large amounts of space. Especially on a laptop.
Here's another hint, on the screen that comes up automatically when you plug in an iPod:
Guess which option above is the important one.
Yup, “Manage music manually” lets you change the iPod from an autosyncer to a manual “drag and drop” loader, as you desire.
Oh, and this isn’t new. That’s my *original* 5GB iPod, still in heavy use, still running its original battery.
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