Goodbye, Old Chum
Posted on March 25, 2007
Alas, my poor iPod, Fermium*, has died. After a few good years of service, having previously died twice only to come back to life, the hard drive on it is officially a goner. It clicks and whirrs and fails to be seen by any computer when it’s connected. If I start it up, the dead hard drive screen shows, that is unless the screen just goes all black. I’ll just have to save up for a new iPod, and until that time, have to kick it old school, listening to CDs in the car. Dang.
The iPod is survived by an iBook, and iMac, and two inkjet printers. A long lost brother, an iPod Shuffle residing somewhere in southern California, could not be reached for comment. In lieu of flowers, the bereaved request that a charitable donation of $15 be paypal’d directly to me.
*All of my disks are named after elements. The iMac has Iridium as its main volume, and Molybdenum and Argon are my external drives. My iBook’s main volume is Vanadium.
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Ahhhhh, sounds like you got a few good years out of the poor bastard. I’m on my second one myself, but I use it so much its already worn out and the battery doesn’t have the same capacity as it originally did. Me knowing your affinity for all things apple, I take it that you will purchase a new one? Or will you just wait for the phone? I’m just going to wait for the phone to come out. Not because I will get one, but I figure once they do come out the price of the nano has to drop, which is when I will get a new one.
I would wait for the phone, but my contract isn’t up until August. The thought of going five months without an iPod appalls me, and I’m still undecided on whether or not I’m actually going to get an iPhone (as hott as it is and how much I desire one, the economics of paying for a data plan every month sort of work against me.) I’m not a hundred percent decided, but I’m leaning towards just getting a Nano, and trying to live without taking my entire music collection with me. Either that or an 80 Gb iPod. We’ll see.
I saw a 6 or so ipods down at the Mr Money pawn shop at 17th and M. They had some older and newer ones. Plus a shuffle for $37 (older version)
Sure you have to wonder how good the batteries are and stuff. Just letting ya know.
BTW: the survived cracked me up.
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