Originally Posted by UScolorado1k
...I unpacked it saturday and tried to pop it in the dock to charge, but nothing happened. I'm not sure, but it appears that the docks from the "old" click wheel model don't seem to work with the new ones! In addition, they changed the power plug, so cords from the old ones don't work with the new power plugs and vice versa. DUMB MOVE!
It gets better.....
Sunday I tried to sync my new IPOD with Itunes. I decided just to be sure that everything was ok, I would load the s/w that came on the CD with the new IPOD. Everything worked, however when I plugged in the IPOD, it said it had to be formatted. ok. Did that, and plugged it in again. Itunes didn't recognize it, nor did my windows computer see the new USB device. Two hours later, I gave up, removed Itunes from my computer, rebooted and reinstalled. Finally my new IPOD was recoginized by both Itunes and my computer.
I have no idea if my experience was normal, however if it is, one has to wonder if anyone tested the upgrade path from older IPODs to newer ones to see if there was an issue!
At least it's done! Lost a day, but now I can carry all of my music, all of my pictures and all of my backup files on my travels!
I'm assuming you mean the 40 gig B+W iPod vs the 60 gig Photo. They have different docking stations so the 40 gig dock may not work correctly since there is a difference in thickness. Also, the correct iPod Photo dock has outputs for video as well as audio and the dock cable.
By "Power Plugs" I assume you mean the cords that attach it to the power adaptor / computer. The new photo iPods do not come with a Firewire cable anymore, but you can still use your old firewire dock cable to charge / sync it. They removed the Firewire cable since most Windows computers don't come with a Firewire port.. They had to change the power adaptor since they decided to remove the firewire cable. I believe it was a pure cost cutting measure because iPods are known to have issues with connecting over USB vs Firewire.
We've never had any trouble with our iPod upgrades on the Mac.