Pod Person

[wshaffer]

My iPod's battery has given up the ghost, rather suddenly: during my copyedit marathon of a few weeks ago, I could bring it to work and still count on a good few hours of listening to podcasts while I entered edits. A week ago, I could get through a 70 minute audio play and a couple of songs before the battery gave up the ghost. Yesterday morning, I got a grand total of 17 minutes of service out of it. That's not gonna work.

I think it was back in April that I replaced this battery - if this is typical, I'm not that impressed with the lifespan of replacement batteries for the iPod. On the other hand, I'm probably guilty of battery abuse. Not only do I use and recharge my iPod almost every day, but in the past month, I've taken it out on cold November mornings, gotten it lightly rained on, and dropped it hard onto a concrete sidewalk. (It survived with minor scratches - didn't even quit playing.)

I ought to be delighted, because ever since Apple released the 160GB iPod classics, I've been itching for an excuse to buy one. Still, I'm feeling slightly grumpy, because I like to replace my technology on my timetable, not on its timetable. (Though, if truth be told, I have a fundamental stinginess about replacing any reasonably functional device which means that I rarely replace anything before it's absolutely necessary. I keep cars until someone totals them, laptops until they stop powering on reliably, and if Daniel didn't keep buying me kitchen gadgets, I'd be cooking with the kit I used when I was in grad school. Very odd behavior for a self-admitted gadget freak.)

This does raise the question of: what does one do with a dead 3rd generation iPod? I suppose there are places that will recycle them. I'm kind of tempted to stick it in a block of lucite and use it as a paperweight.

Comments

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I've never had an iPod battery die. Weird, huh?

I guess I give them away first.

We Fix Macs has a deeply discounted battery replacement service.