Mine is
the first of the colour screen ones. iPod photo, it was called. I've had it three years, and it gets used almost exclusively in my car, where it's on charge.

But when I'm using it on an aeroplane, I can still get 8 or so hours from it, provided I'm not firing it up and putting on different songs all the time. If I let it run through an entire album, or stick it on random play, it loads up the buffer and doesn't have to spin up the disk very often.

It was rated at 14 hours life when new, but I don't think it ever managed that.

Edit - don't do as Bert says, as iPods use Lithium ion batteries which don't take kindly to deep discharge, like the NiCads used to need. (sorry Bert!)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:18, Reply)