My old iPod is no longer in decline.

My precious 20 GB, monochrome-screen iPod is, oh, five years old? The battery has been performing poorly for a long while, but now the click-wheel has rapidly gone to the point of utter and total malfunction, rendering the device useless. That puts me in a serious bind. I have an ancient iMac that sports an operating system that doesn't support the current generation of iPods (and it lacks the USB 2.0 hardware that's now required to run an iPod).

And then I found out that the one iPod that has enough capacity to hold my entire music library (over 120 GB as of now) was discontinued by Apple. So I went straight to Amazon and bought one that won't run on my computer! I compounded the problem by mistakenly buying a $76 upgrade package for my operating system that requires version 10.3--and I have version 10.2. So now I've decided to let my finances breathe easily and give up for the time being. The new iPod is secure, if unused, and I'll just live with my tiny little 512 MB iPod Shuffle (which takes forever to load using my ancient USB).

It's just the part of life that happens when you're house-poor...