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Apple iPod Update Increases Battery Life

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-battery dept.

hhoor writes "Apple has released iPod Software 1.2.6. According to Apple, 'After updating the iPod, customers can expect at least 10 days of standby battery life on a full charge.' So maybe now it's really time to buy one."

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  1. Nethack by termos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does these things come with nethack?
    If they do, they need much more than 10 days of battery time in order to complete the game.

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  2. Re:Odd statement hhoor by Mikey-San · · Score: 2, Funny

    "On scroll-wheel iPods"? As opposed to the trackball iPods that are so popular? ;-)

    -/-

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  3. Re:hmmm...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was made for seti@home, and is working constantly on that, and breaking the X-Box key when the seti@home code needs to "phone home" to get a longer set of jobs.

    That's why iTunes has that "Connect to Internet when needed" option. It's so that when you sync your iPod the iPod can send its latest batch of results to seti@home and download new work to do.

  4. Aha! by tamen · · Score: 3, Funny

    So this is were they put the lost battery life from the iBooks!

  5. Re:Odd statement hhoor by Mikey-San · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I know. My first thought when I saw "scroll-wheel" was "mouse", so I sorta ran with it. ... Into a wall, I guess. :-)

    Karma to burn!

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  6. Re:hmmm...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "apple do not sell ipods to make clusters from"

    repeat after me

    "never use a preposition to end a sentence with"

  7. yeah... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Slashdot - ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.

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