The legend of the £900 ipod
October 28th, 2007Last week, on holiday in Florida, we took advantage of the 2:1 exchange rate to get Catherine a new 8GB iPod Nano (Yes, the red one!). Works out about £35 cheaper than it costs in the UK. However, our 4 year old iMac is not USB2, so transfers would be a bit slow, but so what.
Well, it seems the good people at Apple decided that the iPod really needs updated contact and calendar syncronisation, and so used OS X Tiger specific code in there. Our old iMac is only running Panther. No worries, I’ll just order Tiger – no longer available as Leopard has shipped. The iMac should run Leopard if the RAM was increased, but I get the feeling Leopard is really designed for Intel Macs, and the G4/G5 support is just there “because”.
Anyway, long story short, the new 20″ iMac (with Leopard, and Core Duo) will be here on Thursday. Steve Jobs wins again!
I suppose I could have found a legitimate copy of Tiger on ebay. Doh!
