Re: IPOD - warning

[Ben McCormack <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Now it we get IBM's smart technology in it - sensing movement and auto
> parking the drive, making the case from something robust like titanium
> rather than flimsy ally or plastic, then it might be a bit stronger...
> Then
> it wouldn't be an apple product, I guess.
>

Looks like this is coming

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/12/20041223150027.shtml


The "Media player with acceleration protection" patent (applied
in
June 2003) covers fall protection for the iPod:

The portable computing device protects its disk drive by monitoring for
such accelerations and operating to avoid usage of the disk drive
during periods of acceleration. Through such protection, the likelihood
of damage to the disk drive or loss of data stored on the disk drive is
able to be substantially reduced. According to another aspect, a user
of a portable computing device can be alerted when the portable
computing device is being subjected to undesirable levels of
acceleration.
Of note, IBM introduced similar technology in their ThinkPad notebooks
in late 2003.



Ben





> Still, whining about apple doesn't help with this problem, so I'll
> shut up
> and crawl back under my rock ;)
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kaye [mailto:mark.kaye@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 December 2004 15:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] IPOD - warning
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Nye [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
>>
>>  Just a word of warning to anyone thinking of buying an ipod.
>
> Although a regrettable turn of events, I'm not sure Apple are behaving
> in
> any way different from any other manufacturer of such, or similar,
> devices.
> It's a small thing with a hard drive in it so is susceptible to
> shock/vibration, etc.  If this isn't mentioned in the user
> guide/manual then
> fair enough, but I suspect it will be somewhere.
>
>
>
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