What to do with extra space?

[gizmo53]

When I got my iBook, I was given the stripped-down model. In fact, the original capacity of the HD was 15 GB. It became 20 GB after it got wrecked by sister and Apple didn't have any 15 GB left. When I got my iPod, it was a 15 GB model. Thing is, I probably won't ever go over the 5 GB mark, as I have to store things other than music on my laptop. My question: What am i to do with 10 GB of space (other than divx movies, already thought of that)?

[kamj12]

just leave it open, i'm sure you'll use it up some day

[harry]

you'll be surprised at what you'll think of to put in that space. I couldn't think of what I was going to do with my 20gb until my friend couldn't download The Animatrix. I plunked a copy on there and took it over to her place so she could check it out.

[AptMunich]

Thing is, I probably won't ever go over the 5 GB mark, as I have to store things other than music on my laptop.


But you can have more music on your ipod than on your ibook, as you don't just have to have the same music on both.


I have a winpod and have 7GB of music on my ipod and only 1,5GB on my PC...


That is one of the main reasons i bought the iPod, i was going to buy an extra HD(around ?/$ 120) as my old 15GB HD was almost full with 'undeletable' music that i always want to listen to and some smaller 64MB mp3 player, but then i reasoned that the iPod could be both!


So check out the mac way to copy songs from Ipod to HD if you want!

[jminio]

i moved from a 5GB to a 30 GB iPod. My music ripped at 160kps takes up 5.2 GB. For awhile I felt like I bought the wrong iPod because i would never fill it up. Now I am thinking of re-ripping my collection at a higher bitrate. Why not I am not going to buy a lot of new music may as well have higher quality.

[bluecamel]

Yeah, but the cool thing is that if you ever need a portable HD in a crunch, you have one with a lot of extra space. I, on the other hand, would be screwed because my 20GB is full. I guess I could delete stuff if I needed to though.

[Sam Williams]

You should pack the extra space full of audio books on how to survive every imaginable disaster contingency, just in case... ;-)

[sparks9]

i use it to backup my documents.

[doktor242]

I'm installing OS 9.2.2 on mine, so on the off chance that I need to boot into OS9, i'll be able to do so by holding down 'option' at startup instead of using the 'startup disk' control panel, which you can only do if 9 is on a seperate partition from X.

[mongoos150]

Originally posted by gizmo53
When I got my iBook, I was given the stripped-down model. In fact, the original capacity of the HD was 15 GB. It became 20 GB after it got wrecked by sister and Apple didn't have any 15 GB left. When I got my iPod, it was a 15 GB model. Thing is, I probably won't ever go over the 5 GB mark, as I have to store things other than music on my laptop. My question: What am i to do with 10 GB of space (other than divx movies, already thought of that)?

Indeed, you could use it as a backup drive or to store large capacity files like divX movies.

[bluecamel]

Does it seem awfully strange to anyone else that the basic iBooks and PowerBooks only have 30 or 40 GB hard drives, when the new iPods have 30? That just seems wrong. Plus, if you're a Windows user like me, thinking about buying an Apple laptop, you're going to end up with half (or more) of your hard drive filled with music if you want to use iTunes to control your iPod. That's pretty jacked.

[idarknight]

I use mine as a backup as for mission critical stuff - like the lastest version of my thesis.

But using it this way seems to build up a load of trash on the disc, so you might want to empty it's trash occasionally.

[Impulse29]

What I'd do is move some of my computer files onto the iPod... This way, my computer will run faster, and if it ever gets screwed, I can just reset it, and copy the files from the iPod again... (higher level thinking:) )