Cybrid
07-28-2008, 04:57 PM
Well, this is a novella of a post but it is entertaining nonetheless...
For my anniversary, I decided to buy my wife an iPod Touch. This, as most who I have flamed and shamed, will know is probably the last thing I would ever buy for myself. I did this since my wife isn't very technically inclined and while would love to have a "tricked out" Pocket PC, doesn't have the slightest desire in learning how to do that.
In previous years, to answer "Honey, is there a way to have all my phone #'s and appt's in one place so that it is easy to find?" . I went out and purchased an HP 1950 since the older Dell X5 I had laying around was "ugly" and biig. It also had the bonus of WM5 which meant charging nightly wouldn't be a concern. Soft resets are, however, a new way of life with that little beast.
She didn't like carrying that around and so it sits on the night table. She does use it to surf over wifi occasionally and finds PIE horrible. Opera mini to the rescue.
When she needs a phone #, she'll look it up.....or get me to when she's not home and I am.
She has a tiny nano sized mp3 player she uses when working out but that doesn't hold enough songs and she really doesn't want to know how to sync that either.
So yesterday, I decided that I'll purchase a iPod Touch. This would somehow fulfill the promise that WinCe didn't deliver on since 1998-99. From the glowing rose colored reports, this should do everything but cook dinner...
and now for the story....
I bring this home and knowing my wife's tendencies, begin setting it up for her. I secretly begin ripping all her CD's and even plan to digitize her old audio tapes of old Hindi songs that now would be near impossible to collect.
I download iTunes (70-80mb) and Quicktime (?) over my cable lite connection and then half an hour later begin to set this up. The PC is a homebrew AMD sempron 3000+ with 1 GB RAM and XP PRO.
I purchase and download the 221Mb update to 2.0, and begin updating. This progresses slower than any ROM update I have ever been witness to.
So 4 hours later from my $420 investment, I am now ready to begin setting this up.
I specify all the folders, network shares, etc where all my media is stored and wait...and wait...
This is slow. This initial sync is about 3-4 Gb. With time on my hands I'm even considering buying Quicktime Pro, so that I could convert my Digital Camcorder videos to play. She'd get a real thrill out of that.
So....it begins optimizing the 2354 photos, I have shared on the network folder...
Hours later...
Many hours later...
I get the "The ipod "...iPod" could not be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)"
Several tries of syncing,
Several tries of "Hold power+Home" for 10 seconds to power off the iPod A.K.A soft reset
calling it a day and getting a bright and early start on it this morning
and now a "Restore" A.K.A. hard reset
setting up a new partnership and...
I get the "The ipod "...iPod" could not be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)"
So while I, a technically inclined geek try to sort out this mess before the 2nd of Sept. (My anniversary), I leave you all to make your own observations and conclusions.
My own will follow in a reply.
For my anniversary, I decided to buy my wife an iPod Touch. This, as most who I have flamed and shamed, will know is probably the last thing I would ever buy for myself. I did this since my wife isn't very technically inclined and while would love to have a "tricked out" Pocket PC, doesn't have the slightest desire in learning how to do that.
In previous years, to answer "Honey, is there a way to have all my phone #'s and appt's in one place so that it is easy to find?" . I went out and purchased an HP 1950 since the older Dell X5 I had laying around was "ugly" and biig. It also had the bonus of WM5 which meant charging nightly wouldn't be a concern. Soft resets are, however, a new way of life with that little beast.
She didn't like carrying that around and so it sits on the night table. She does use it to surf over wifi occasionally and finds PIE horrible. Opera mini to the rescue.
When she needs a phone #, she'll look it up.....or get me to when she's not home and I am.
She has a tiny nano sized mp3 player she uses when working out but that doesn't hold enough songs and she really doesn't want to know how to sync that either.
So yesterday, I decided that I'll purchase a iPod Touch. This would somehow fulfill the promise that WinCe didn't deliver on since 1998-99. From the glowing rose colored reports, this should do everything but cook dinner...
and now for the story....
I bring this home and knowing my wife's tendencies, begin setting it up for her. I secretly begin ripping all her CD's and even plan to digitize her old audio tapes of old Hindi songs that now would be near impossible to collect.
I download iTunes (70-80mb) and Quicktime (?) over my cable lite connection and then half an hour later begin to set this up. The PC is a homebrew AMD sempron 3000+ with 1 GB RAM and XP PRO.
I purchase and download the 221Mb update to 2.0, and begin updating. This progresses slower than any ROM update I have ever been witness to.
So 4 hours later from my $420 investment, I am now ready to begin setting this up.
I specify all the folders, network shares, etc where all my media is stored and wait...and wait...
This is slow. This initial sync is about 3-4 Gb. With time on my hands I'm even considering buying Quicktime Pro, so that I could convert my Digital Camcorder videos to play. She'd get a real thrill out of that.
So....it begins optimizing the 2354 photos, I have shared on the network folder...
Hours later...
Many hours later...
I get the "The ipod "...iPod" could not be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)"
Several tries of syncing,
Several tries of "Hold power+Home" for 10 seconds to power off the iPod A.K.A soft reset
calling it a day and getting a bright and early start on it this morning
and now a "Restore" A.K.A. hard reset
setting up a new partnership and...
I get the "The ipod "...iPod" could not be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)"
So while I, a technically inclined geek try to sort out this mess before the 2nd of Sept. (My anniversary), I leave you all to make your own observations and conclusions.
My own will follow in a reply.