WOW My Battery life is amazing!

Lies...

Yeah no way!!! Nice try, you must work for apple.

Lies!!!

8 hours of just sitting there will kill the pod. nice try.

You're full of it.

What the heck, *me joins in*

Total lie!

LOL - Whether or not it's true I don't care, but this thread is the funniest thing I've read all day today about ipods and the new Macs.

Hmm...my iPod lasts around 8 hours only. I want a magic iPod like yours.

My ipods battery is so leet, that i have yet to charge it in my one month of usage. Haw!

There is a way you can prove it to us. Get a webcam, download windows media encoder, fire them both up, put ur ipod next to a digital clock, press play on ur ipod and just leave the webcam recording it and the time. There. Thats a way.

My Ipod runs on magic, it never drops a bar.

I am doing more tests and the life is slow decreasing:( I have ran it for about 4 hours and lost a bar :( You guys are jinxing it!! lol j/k

i removed the battery inside my iPod 15gb and amazingly the iPod now lasts for 20 hours!!!

unbelievable!!

I dont know whats the big deal here but it is very easy for a new ipod to last 15+ hours. When I first got mine, me and my brother in law, it lasted on average for about 12 hours+ So I can believe what he is saying. Those who don't need to do some research on the battery,

I am running the newest model of the ipod (the third generation as most say). Its a 15gb and I have about 40 songs on it so far. On a full charge, lately it lasts about 10 hours. But like I said, when I first got got it, the ipod would play 12-13 hours no problem.

I'm a me-too on good battery life, with a 30 GB and firmware 2.0.1. I drove to a jobsite yesterday morning, while plugged into the Belkin charger. When I got there, I unplugged the iPod, put the hold switch on, and put it in my trunk. However, I'd forgotten to hit the Pause button.

Nine hours later, I go to plug it in again, and see that it has been playing all day. And I still showed 4 bars on the battery! Call me a liar, I don't care, I know that it happened.

Possibly significant item: the playlist that I had selected only had AAC files in it. Hmm.

I have never let mine run all the way down, but my battery life sucks.

After about 3 hours I am down to one bar. I have 2000 songs and just use random play, no backlight. I have to recharge mine every night.

It's a 30GB 3rd generation.

If I am supposed to get 7 or 8 hours out of it, then that last bar better have a lot of endurance.

I went to stay with my cousin for 2 days and took my charger. The battery on my ipod went dead at 7 hours after a full 4 hours of charging. I left it on the dock all night and got up in the morning and started playing it again. At 3 hours a bar dropped. So figure it might have lasted 12 hours on continous play. Kinda strange how it went from 7 hours then to (figure 12 hours)...

I just traveled around the world in 80 days in my balloon with my 30gb iPod on constantly. I only have 72,000 songs on it, so I had some repeats during the flight, but the iPod never stopped. After that, I landed at the North Pole to pick up my SUV which would not start (120 below zero outside). Luckily I had enough power left in the iPod to jump start the SUV.

Actually I was flying to Tokyo on a 777 and the battery went dead after 7 hours. From there I went to sleep and had the dream from above.

Randy

"my gosh that's insane.

13 hrs eh?

I can barely get 9 hrs out of my 2nd Touch-Whell WiPod.

and only 2 bars were gone? u expecting 26 hours man?
stop fabricating things, please!"

Where did you get 26 hours? Nowhere did I say I was expecting 26 hours.

i got mad when 1 battery bar dropped after 3 hours. i remedied that with a sharpie, and now it always stays at 3 bars! wohooo!

Cant be true!?!
I'm lucky if i a get 6 to 7 hours, !!!

......sharpie??!?!

jasonmccabe: My post wasn't even funny the first time aroudn so I'm not going to try explaining it.

As to the general topic of this thread -- I don't even know what my true battery life is. Some days I feel like I've listened to my iPod for 75% of my 10 hour workday, but I have yet to do a battery drain test or really pay attention to how long it's playing. I dock it every night to charge up and I have yet to get a battery warning or failure to turn on due to low battery.

However, my first G3 iPod only lasted about 8 total (non-consecutive) hours before dying on me... so after being without an iPod for about a month I've just been enjoying having it, and not worrying about battery life since it hasn't seemed to impact my usage.

if the HD spins up, battery life goes down. I think. So random play kills the battery because it spins up EVERY SONG...but i have yet to get one so I really can't back this up...

Originally posted by DJ Hyp3rion
...So random play kills the battery because it spins up EVERY SONG... Not quite true... my iPod is set for random play and only spins up the drive on every 6th or 7th song. If I skip a few tracks (usually three) it will also spin up the drive...

Originally posted by torchedlh
so i'm guessing the ipod chooses the songs randomly ahead of time and just stores it in it's 32mb ram?

The listing of it, yeah. Then it loads up songs to fill the 32 MB buffer. Once that's been played through, another 32 MBs is loaded into the buffer, etc.

Obviously he's desperate for attention..