The iPod has nearly put me in my grave. I've had continuous issues with iTunes running on XP. Hours and hours resolving mysterious iTune lockup, iPod & iTune lockup, the fun "iTunes arrange your library" that was defaulted to enabled and all my music renamed to unknown/fileXYZ.mpg. Good times
So, walking past the company boneyard the other day I see the poor old G4 Powermac sitting there all lonely like. I take it home with the thought of reviving it to be a iTunes server box and email client for the wife and kids. I build the thing back up with OS-X 10.3 and I installed a PCI card for SATA drive support, a PCI USB 2.0 card, and everything is looking good. The box runs quiet with the new hard drive. I copy all my music to the drive which takes half the day due to several folders having PC formatted stuff that does not transfer. Anywho, I reboot and plug in my daughters iPod nano video...up pops a warning message that the iPod cannot be used without OS-X 10.4.8 and up...
Teaches me for thinking there just might be something to this Mac thing after all. My only solution is to use my XP laptop for all iPod work as I'm not buying OS-X 10.anything for this old G4. So there you have it, the mac won't play with the iPod but the XP will with just one crash per connect. Good times.
Talk amongst yourselves.