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iPod Nano Upgrade

Originally published by "Dave" on 2005-10-03 13:20:00Z

Of all the silly…

Some guy tore apart a perfectly good iPod Nano and connected a 200GB Maxtor hard drive to it. Amazingly, it worked. The capacity increased by 50x, but battery life dropped to about 6 minutes.

Somehow that doesn’t seem like a good tradeoff for a portable.

On the other hand, if you were to do this hack & hook the Nano up to a set of Logitech X-230’s, or maybe one of those spiffy $30 Sonic Impact T-Amps and a good set of Bose speakers… That just might work out as a nice desktop stereo!

Comment by "Danski" on 2005-10-04 13:13:00Z
You know that's an uncylcopaedia article, right? The page you linked to shares a website with other great factual content like The War of the Noodles (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/War*of*the_Noodles).
Comment by "cementimental" on 2005-10-04 13:37:00Z
Wow, I can't believe they went to the trouble of photoshopping a hand holding and ipod and a hard drive!? Surely it'd be easier to just actually put elastic bands round a real ipod and HD... unless they don't have a Nano I guess... Surely noone reeaaaally fell for it?? ... right?? ... Anyway, the whole thing seems to be a lot of trouble to go to just in the hope of trolling apple fans!
Comment by "Dave" on 2005-10-04 15:11:00Z
Oh come on now; they wouldn't lie about a thing like this, would they? Is uncyclopedia the wiki version of The Onion? I'm so ashamed...
Comment by "Deane" on 2005-10-04 06:37:00Z
What's sad is that we got tracked back three times. We perpetuated a con.
Comment by "ivdo" on 2005-10-05 11:06:00Z
[http://www.freemodding.it/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=742&forum=10](http://www.freemodding.it/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=742&forum=10) [http://forum.hwsw.hu/index.php?showtopic=32554&st=240](http://forum.hwsw.hu/index.php?showtopic=32554&st=240) sorry for apple fun, this is photoshoped joke [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Dissection](http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Dissection)*circuit*board.jpg
Comment by "Nigel Pond" on 2005-10-07 17:57:00Z
Bose 'speakers? No, no, no, no!! There are much better alternatives...
Comment by "roman gomez" on 2006-03-17 10:46:00Z
how can i get the radio to work ?
Comment by "Anonymous" on 2006-10-05 07:32:00Z
well...nice photomontage^^
Comment by "pwiincess ecko" on 2008-07-18 14:54:00Z
how could i get ma ipod workin it sayz disk error all ov a sudden
Comment by "jhon humpfrey" on 2009-07-22 11:16:00Z
i need m raidio to work pleas help and i have ipod nano 3gen 4gigs and a update for it