A friend of mine just performed the ghastly deed...
http://www.studio2f.com/misc/2004/02/25size_matters.php
Amazing to fathom...
http://www.studio2f.com/misc/2004/02/25size_matters.php
Amazing to fathom...
They're murdering iPods...
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Hmmm...now I am suddenly interested in the iPod.
hah.. they are good for something!akira3d said:
very clever idea
I should have read through the thread. Apparently you can't make these work with digital SLRs. Oh well...sounded like a cool way to save some bucks.
I looked at the iPOD mini before I bought the iRIVER IHP 120. The mini looks to be sealed and not come apart. I'm also told that you can't get it apart to change the battery and that Apple exchanges it for a new one if the battery fails in the warrenty/extended warranty period.
You may get it apart, but I doubt that you'll be able to put it together again with a CF card and sell it.
You may get it apart, but I doubt that you'll be able to put it together again with a CF card and sell it.
More info on taking the mini apart:
http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=3059_0_8_0_C
Replacing the battery in the iPod:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,588084-2,00.html
http://ipodbattery.com/
http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=3059_0_8_0_C
Replacing the battery in the iPod:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,588084-2,00.html
http://ipodbattery.com/
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akira3d said:
Check out http://www.andymack.com/mylog/entry_868.html
The Muvo2 is cheaper than the iPod mini anyway. You can get deals on a Muvo2 for under $200 these days.
And there are cheaper sports cars than the NSX too...
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Jimbo said:And there are cheaper sports cars than the NSX too...
If you read the links, the purpose here is to buy the MP3 player simply to gut the 4GB Hitachi microdrive out of it to use in say a digital camera that takes CF cards. Therefore the only thing that matters is price, there is no other point.. The reason for doing this is that for some assanine reason the MP3 players with the 4GB drive are considerably less expensive than just buying the 4GB drive by itself.
FURTHER, the 4GB drives in the ipod mini reportedly do not work in digital cameras, apparently because they are customized for the ipod application and are not CF compliant. Do not be confused by a bogus report on TechTV a while back which stated the ipod mini drives would work (TechTV never tested, they were just assuming since they are all Hitachi microdrives). See http://www.steves-digicams.com/microdrive.html
Further still, if you really do want to keep the MP3 player after ripping the 4GB drive out, is in possible to put a common solid-state CF card or a smaller generic microdrive back into the Muvo2, so if you have say a 512MB CF card or an old 1GB microdrive you can still have a working-though-downsized Muvo2 MP3 player and a 4GB microdrive for your digital camera. I do not think you can put a generic CF card into an ipod mini, so even if the drive worked I believe you'd still end up having to trash the player (since the drive won't work in cameras it doesn't really matter to most people doing this).
See http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,62509,00.htm for a good article describing the whole situation.
And here are instructions for gutting a Muvo (though you may just be able to format the drive in your camera instead of using your computer): http://www.pcconsultant.com/microdrive.htm
Lud,
I read the links...just making a casual observation.
-J
I read the links...just making a casual observation.
-J
Thanks for posting this topic - I'd been thinking about another mp3 player and I just picked up a Nomad Muvo minus its hard drive for $32 on the bay. By using one of the CF cards that I no longer use for anything else I think I made out pretty well. 
