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Scotttheking
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Oct 22, 2006, 02:12 PM
 
I'm looking at the refurbished ipods, specifically the silver mini that is $130 or so. I'm wondering though, are the batteries new? My 5GB ipod battery failed after 4.5 years, and there is little point to replacing it now.

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Oct 22, 2006, 05:57 PM
 
Hey scott, how's it going?

for $130 you can get a nano so why get an old mini? That being said, why not just get a new battery here.
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Oct 23, 2006, 08:48 AM
 
Originally Posted by Scotttheking View Post
I'm looking at the refurbished ipods, specifically the silver mini that is $130 or so. I'm wondering though, are the batteries new? My 5GB ipod battery failed after 4.5 years, and there is little point to replacing it now.

--Scott
I just got a 6GB Mini refurb last week[1], and without running the hard drive it has a 16 hour battery life before it turns off.

I know this, since that's about all I can do with it. The hard drive appears DOA, since iTunes says it's corrupted and attempts to restore it, but the restore process hangs partway through with an error and all sorts of I/O errors show up in system.log. I'm not sure the refurbishing process was very rigorous here.

[1] didn't get a nano, since it's replacing an original[2] iPod mini, which we've already got covers and armband clips for, and since it's Firewire (my TiBook is only USB 1.1)

[2] Original got smoked by a cheap 3rd party car charger
     
   
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