15 gig questions

The difference has to do with formatting and the way bytes are counted. Basically you get 13.8GB for a 15GB drive. I have a 120GB drive in my PC and it's 111GB formatted. This is just the way it goes.

I ran my iPod through my stereo this weekend, set on shuffle with the EQ on bass booster and I got 7.5-8.5 hours out of it. Unfortunately, I didn't pay close enough attention to what time I started playing.

Whenever you manually change songs, browse menus, play the volume really loud or use the backlight or eq you reduce your effective usage time. From what I can tell, 8 hours should be realistic if all you're doing is straight playing of songs. It can be equated to talk time versus standby time on a cell phone, where talk time is time skipping tracks or using backlight, and standby time is playing music without touching any controls.

John

Actually yes, a nd it's not hard. The Dock your ipod came with has a stereo line out... What you need is a cable that has two male rca jacks on one end and one small male stereo jack that fits into your dock on the other end... You can get a monster cable at best buy for 20-30 bucks that does this, or you can even get a cable from walmart or radioshack that does the same thing for 5-6 dollars... the sound quality is onehundred times better than an itrip..

Eric

PS if you want to connect to a car stereo, it's just as possible, although it's a bit more complicated.