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reason that the suggest 10K on the Nano and other solid state drives is because
of the membrane keypad. As you might imagine air density will effect that
as well. However, most failure are temporary and non-damaging and they
fail in a mode where the keyboard become ineffective. If you are just
listening and not selecting all the time, you should be able to live with the
slight inconvenience. I've also noticed that not off them behave poorly
above 10K, the older Ipods suffered more from this than the new ones in my
experience.
Alan
According to Apple's specs the iPod does have a
hard drive and the maximum operating altitude is 10,000 ft. I wouldn't
risk it, unless you just want to get a new iPod every once in a while, after the
disk drive crashes. The iPod nano uses a flash drive (no moving parts so
the disk won't fail due to reduced air density) but it is also rated for a
maximum operating altitude of 10,000 ft. Maybe they're just being
conservative, or heat becomes an issue at the max operating temp (95F)
above 10,000 ft, or maybe they simply didn't test any higher than
10,000 ft. I'd go with the nano.
Tom Gourley
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