Blog - Happy sad iPod Touch

send it to me .. i will take care of it :)

I just read they will open iPhone and iPod Touch for 3rd party (finally) .. does not help you much ..

hmm .. using the mac in the house?

Posted by Peter Nacken on October 18, 2007 at 01:41

Haha. :)

Unfortunately the Mac is also with an old OS. 10.3, maybe even 10.2.

Well I think I've pretty much made up my mind about installing XP. Vista could be a bit too steep and I'm afraid half of my software and hardware might not run on it.
It's a fact that Win2K is old (as its name says) and I guess I have to upgrade someday whether I like it or not.

Posted by Patrick on October 18, 2007 at 08:02

"Apple... WHY???"

The answer is simple: they want you to buy a Macintosh.

Posted by Brad on October 18, 2007 at 10:47

If they would, they'd have removed all Windows support. But all they did is make me buy a Windows XP from M$.

Posted by Patrick on October 18, 2007 at 10:58

My old PC died and I bought a replacement with Vista. A day later I went out and bought a Mac Mini. Go for XP instead. Not that I don't mind my Mac either.

Posted by Leif on October 18, 2007 at 11:40

Really? After some more thinking I was going to go with Vista. Vista Home Premium is cheaper and easier to find than XP Pro. I don't really want to mess with XP Home.

Back to the dilemma.

Posted by Patrick on October 18, 2007 at 11:45

Ok I've settled on XP Pro. Next step: find a cheap OEM. :)

Posted by Patrick on October 18, 2007 at 14:16

i also have windows 2000 and i was about to buy The IPod touch. without knowing that the system requirements were windows vista or whatever. so im going through the same problem cuz im really wanting to get that. and i dont want to settle for anything less.

Posted by ameymae on October 29, 2007 at 07:09

So far I've installed XP Pro on another drive and I'm still using Win2K as my main OS, though I might make the full switch once I have time to reinstall all my applications. XP does feel clunky and slowish compared to Win2K.

Posted by Patrick on October 29, 2007 at 08:04

iTunes is way more bloated than windows xp/vista

Posted by Hugues on December 26, 2007 at 13:15

Agreed. I used to be a happy EphPod user, but unfortunately iTunes is the only way to go for any recent iPod.

Posted by Patrick on December 26, 2007 at 16:28

just got 1 for christmas, salesmen sold it to my mother under the understanding all she needed was internet access, I open it chrisytmas day I knew immediatly it wouldnt work, for a while the new ipod products have been unnimpressed with my obselete windows 2000 but vista is restricted an xp is unstable, there must be a way to run the neccesery itunes ver. under 2k an thn patch the req, from the phone to need vista/ xp or am I talkin shit?

Posted by blau on December 27, 2007 at 04:53

I first also thought there should be a way to patch iTunes to get it to work on Win2K. There might be, but I found no info...

My solution was to end up buying XP and installing it as dual-boot on my PC. I still only use it for iTunes. Instead of paying full price for a boxed copy, I got an OEM copy that someone didn't need for an ok price on an auctions site.

Posted by Patrick on December 27, 2007 at 07:47

so is there no way to make ipod touch work with ephpod, or does it just not work well with it?

Posted by julie on January 2, 2008 at 07:36

Unfortunately, the iPod Touch and the latest iPods are incompatible with EphPod.

Posted by Patrick on January 2, 2008 at 14:22

Aghh my dad got an ipod touch and said i cud use it as he didnt want it, it was a thing from work...

but or computer has win2000. and its ancient! dielmma can it suport vista?

Posted by sophie on June 29, 2008 at 04:13

Unfortunately Windows 2000 isn't supported. I was in the same situation and ended up installing XP (a cheap OEM that I found) separately on the same computer. I only use that XP for putting stuff on my iPod Touch, while I keep using 2000 for the rest.

iTunes does support Vista.

Posted by Patrick on June 29, 2008 at 11:46

You need to buy a mac for gods sake. They work far better than vista on a pc, hell if you can't get used to using Leopard |(Mac OS 10.5) then you can run vista on the mac. I occasionally use vista on my imac and i've never seen it run better on any computer, even a fully specced-up machine kept running loads of glitches that didn't have with xp. Fact is Vista is huge bulky slow and cumbersome to use as well as expensive, not just for the software but the upgrades you need to run it are often rediculous. Leopard is a breeze to use. Stable as anything. Does evreything and far far more than any windows software will ever be. And if there is some piece of software you like to use that is windows only then you can run windows on it too, instead of or even at the same time as OSX. Another plus side is the seamless integration of the ipod. Everyone, even the hardest of hard core pc user know how amazing the ipod is these days - the ipod touch and iphone 3g are just out-of-this-world little devices but there are always little snags along the way as have been mentioned all through this thread. The 1st comment back in answer to the Apple Why question is because Apple want you to buy a mac. Absolutely right they do and why not? I honestly don't understand why people buy pc's when most of the time they're so 'glitchy' unless you spend a massive amount on a really high end machine when you could spend far less on a mac and the difference is astronomical. I don't work for Apple. I've been a firm PC boy for my entire life, building them, optimizing them tweaking them and used to hate macs. I used to play around and tweak things and adjust things and replace bits and pieces until one day the tweaks went wrong and the whole thing blew up losing me 1.8TB of data. Gutted. I went out and got a mac. Enuf said.

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