Re: The Mac vs. Windows War is Over. And the Winner is...

In article <090420060055056434%see@xxxxxxxxx>, Davoud <Davoud> wrote:

Paul Schlyter wrote:

OK, I guess I need to be somewhat more specific then: the portable
player shall be small and convenient, and IMO this excludes extra
clip-on hardware. Therefore I require the battery _inside_the_player_
to be easily exchangeable.

Your "easily" and mine may differ greatly, of course, but I recently
purchased a replacement battery for my oldest and most-used iPod. It
came with a tool that opened the iPod case without marring it. Total
installation time was about five minutes.

To me, "easily replaceable in the field" means it can be done in some
15-30 seconds without tools, not in 5 minutes with special tools.
If I'm riding the subway, listening to my portable player, and it runs
out of battery power, chances are quite big I'll get off the subway
within those 5 minutes your special tool requires to replace the battery
on your iPod.

That doesn't compare very favorably with the 30 seconds or so it takes
to open many devices, drop in two rechargeable AA's,

My portable players all run on one single AAA, not two AA's ....

and close the lid, but it didn't seem terribly onerous, particularly
considering that I would expect to do it only once every few years

Yep -- you replace it only when it needs permament replacement, not
when it runs out of power.

One advantage of using only portable devices which runs on standard
batteries is that you only need one charger for all these batteries.
You don't need a separate charger for each and every device. And you
rarely carry the charger with you - you have it at home. Perhaps you
also keep another one at your work and a third one in your country
house. And if you're travelling for some time, you have several
options: bring a charger with you, or bring a sufficient amount of
charged batteries, or temporarily switch to non-rechargeable batteries
which you buy along the way as you need them. That's flexibility.
With an Ipod you only have one option: bring the charger along with
you.

-- if the hard drive lasts another few years. And I could probably do
it in three minues next time.

My conclusion: iPod battery replacement could and should be easier, but
the issue is not a show stopper for me.

But then I once owned a sports car that required two hours of work by a
competent mechanic to change the oil filter...

Davoud

I guess we're quite different. I would never waste money on a sports car;
that money I'd rather spend elsewhere. One could for instance get a
very nice telescope for that amount of money....

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