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Why is my cousin's iPod heavier than mine?
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My cousin and I both have new 20 GB 4G iPods. One of us happened to notice one was heavier than the other. Using the highly sophisticated method of shuffling iPods behind your back and handing them to each other, we can always pick the heavier one. What's going on? 
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Maybe there is more music in one !
Surely tracks must weight something?
Of course you could just put them on some scales and check.
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Haha, the heavier one actually has more music.
Next time he's around we'll weight them.
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naw, the heavier one is actually the 5g iPod prototype, which can not only do the things the 4g can, but it also has a little printer inside it... a gps.. a cellphone, and a tape dispenser (definetly superior tape too).
and you think im kidding...
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yep.
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Originally posted by Parky:
Maybe there is more music in one !
Surely tracks must weight something?
Yeah, the empty space is all 0s whereas the music is 1s and 0s.
1s weigh about 30% more than 0s, 35% on a Tuesday.
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Don't forget that rock music has more notes than other types of music so that the encoding process takes up more space, resulting in larger files which take up the extra space and add weight.
(Last edited by Randman; Sep 20, 2004 at 08:01 AM.
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My iPod has about 2100 songs on it....all heavy metal. I can hardly lift it.
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Originally posted by Chito:
My iPod has about 2100 songs on it....all heavy metal. I can hardly lift it.
 
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Have you ever tried putting them on a diet? No heavy USB 2.0, only nice and slim firewire?
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Have you ever tried putting them on a diet? No heavy USB 2.0, only nice and slim firewire?
The heavy one actually uses USB.
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Originally posted by drive-thru:
Yeah, the empty space is all 0s whereas the music is 1s and 0s.
1s weigh about 30% more than 0s, 35% on a Tuesday.
hahahaha
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It is because of all of the rock and heavy metal music you have on there. Try using pop music instead. It should make your iPod a lot lighter.
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Take the CIA's tracking device out of the heavier iPod and replace your Tin-Foil hat ASAP. 
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Originally posted by Buck_Naked:
Take the CIA's tracking device out of the heavier iPod and replace your Tin-Foil hat ASAP.
about time a tin foil hat comment would show up
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Originally posted by Lancer409:
about time a tin foil hat comment would show up
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shiny side out
classical music for that ipod, i think.
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