Use an iPod as a USB drive ?

[Marian Petrides]

Better yet, if you can get academic pricing, you can get a 1GB iPod  
Nano (stores and displays pictures as well as music) for $129.  And,  
yes, I use my nano as a sneaker net at work all the time. Only  
disadvantage to the nano is that it requires a separate cable which  
might be a hassle for your son--I just keep a spare in my desk.


On May 11, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> Further to the tangent.
>
> At the beginning of the year my son's teacher recently requested  
> that I
> purchase a USB thumbdrive so that my son could easily transfer  
> files to the
> class computer for printing - he takes a G3 PB to school, the class  
> computer
> is  windoz. I personally thought just unplugging the USB printer  
> cable and
> plugging it into the PB would be a very reasonable idea but for  
> 'reasons'
> the USB thumbdrive was what the teacher wanted. So, not having  
> bought one
> before I logged onto my Mac User Group forum and asked for  
> recommendations.
>
> The first response I got back was to buy and iPod Shuffle. At first I
> thought it was a joke, until I did some further investigations:
>
> Iomega 1GB Thumbdrive = US99
> iPod Shuffle 1GB = US99
>
> The Iomega does nothing but store data!
>
> So now we all now that an iPod can store data - but in case you  
> didn't know,
> an Iomega Thumbdrive can't play music;-)
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