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Helmling · Jun 15, 2008, 01:31 AM

I'd like to ask for a little minute of silence in honor of my first iPod which gave up the ghost tonight at approximately 10:48 PM, MT after two years of faithful service.

Now, if I wasn't three weeks from buying an iPhone, I might be upset by this development. I still have my wife/daughter's Nano soldiering on after a little over a year of very, very light use, but I'm wondering:

What's your iPod track record?

Ω · Jun 15, 2008, 02:04 AM

30GB iPod still works - battery not the best but use it more as a HD than as a player as I have an old skool 1GB Shuffle that gets abused everyday - no issues other than earphones

analogika · Jun 15, 2008, 03:52 AM

1st-generation 5GB iPod w/ mechanical scroll wheel is over SIX YEARS old now and still working. Last I bothered testing battery life (I usually just have it hooked up to the 12V car adapter), I was still getting 4 to 5 hours of battery life - on the original battery!

AFAIC, those "let's-sue-Apple-because-a-handful-of-iPod-batteries-died-after-18-months" guys were completely full of ****.

64stang06 · Jun 15, 2008, 09:04 AM

My first (second?) gen 10GB iPod works great. Love the full-size firewire port!

Cold Warrior · Jun 15, 2008, 09:58 AM

My wife still has a second-gen I bought here in the summer of '03. Still working great. She has a much newer one though, but she's happy to keep both: one iPod for classical music, one for regular.

ooninay · Jun 15, 2008, 10:40 AM

My first iPod 30GB click-wheel died just after a year of use. I think I bought it around 2004. Replaced by AppleCare. Replacement just died a couple of months ago. I already had a Touch by then and am still using that. Will buy a 3G on July 11 along with the rest of Canada (yeah, I know I'm exaggerating

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msuper69 · Jun 15, 2008, 11:37 AM

1st gen still going strong (replaced the battery for $20 after a few years)

-Q- · Jun 15, 2008, 04:43 PM

My 1st Gen. 5GB died last year. I had passed it onto my wife and she took it everywhere (she travels regularly as part of her job) so it definitely gave us many years of good service.

My iPod 20GB was stolen from my car. The wife left her iPod mini on a plane, but we still have two original iPod Nano's going strong, along with my iPhone and 60GB iPod in my car.

ghporter · Jun 15, 2008, 05:54 PM

My 60GB, 4G iPod is still going strong. I don't sit and listen to it as much as my "Product Red" 2G Nano, which is also going strong, but it's great for road trips and such, and it has ALL of my music on it, so I have a lot of choice.

mkerr64 · Jun 16, 2008, 08:57 AM

1st gen -- still working
3g- dead 2 weeks ago R.I.P
video -- still working
nano 1g--- still working
touch-- working

CorpITGuy · Jun 16, 2008, 09:58 AM

1st Gen - still working
Wife's pink Mini - still working
1st Original iPhone - landed in the toilet

Replacement iPhone still alive

Dakar the Fourth · Jun 16, 2008, 10:00 AM

My 80 gig 5.5er is doin' fine after almost two years, though she be approaching full status.

Don Pickett · Jun 16, 2008, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

1st-generation 5GB iPod w/ mechanical scroll wheel is over SIX YEARS old now and still working. Last I bothered testing battery life (I usually just have it hooked up to the 12V car adapter), I was still getting 4 to 5 hours of battery life - on the original battery!

AFAIC, those "let's-sue-Apple-because-a-handful-of-iPod-batteries-died-after-18-months" guys were completely full of ****.

Same here with a 10GB 2G one. If the Touch wasn't such a huge leap forward I'd still be using it daily.

CorpITGuy · Jun 16, 2008, 10:42 AM

I had to replace the battery on my 1st Generation iPod, but it's hard to complain... many years of faithful service. My wife's pink mini, OTOH, started losing battery life within a few months... but now we just use it hooked up to a stereo in our kitchen...

DigitalEl · Jun 16, 2008, 12:06 PM

1st Gen 5GB - Sold to a co-worker
iPod 10GB (with the front touch buttons) - eBayed
iPod Photo 40GB - Now in my Scion's center console, serving up media to the head unit
iPod nano 1GB - Stolen from car, probably by car wash scumbags
iPod shuffle 512MB #1 - In a drawer somewhere, great for doing yardwork or working out
iPod shuffle 512MB #2 - In a drawer somewhere, these are practically disposable
iPhone 8GB - In daily use

QSilver · Jun 16, 2008, 12:23 PM

3G white iPod 30GB--replacement battery needs to be replaced. We mostly use it now plugged into something (primarily a v1 inMotion).

1st Gen black nano--works great...one of the kids has it now.

2nd gen green nano--works great for one of the kids...although, come to think of it, I haven't seen it lately. Hope it's not MIA.

1st gen iPhone--no worries.

QS