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Summary: Half a grand for a hard disk!
Review: Sure it looks nice, but [$$$] for a hard disk with an LCD. I don't think so.
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Summary: my precious
Review: My iPod is the single most-used gadget I own BAR NONE! iPods work with both Macs and Windows machines.Plug your iPod into your computer and almost instantly every song on your computer is sucked onto the iPod for transport anywhere. The iPod has the capacity to hold every song I own (my entire CD collection - and it's a big collection)! I now carry EVERY CD I OWN around with me in a gadget that's smaller than a pack of cards. And best of all, it will play them THROUGH MY CAR'S STEREO SYSTEM, THROUGH ANY HOME (or office) STEREO SYSTEM, or, of course, through earbuds while exercising, hiking, etc. All with remarkably high quality. When I play the iPod through my home stereo, I cannot distinguish the reproduction quality from that of the source CD itself - hence, I have not touched a CD since I got my iPod (except to load it onto my computer). The iPod is the kind of product that puts a human face on technological advancement ... and it's smiling!
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Summary: 40Gigs is Finally HERE!
Review: Apple announced the release of the 40gig iPod Monday morning, and I was downloading my music collection onto mine later that evening. I have approximately 44 gigs of MP3s converted at 192kbps equalling about 7400 songs on my external hard drive. I own 99.9% of them on CD, and now they all fit (except my Christmas and Classical CDs) onto the iPod AT ONCE. Now when I play music on random I have 6552 songs cycling through. I can listen to the iPod all day and not even hear the same artist twice!! With the advent of iTMS I can download songs I hear from the radio, preview them for a while, and purchase the albums later. I can't wait to see what happens to all of this when the windows market gets their version of iTMS. Instead of Apple bragging about 10 million MP3s sold, it will be something like 100 million. Get on the wave of the future, get yourself one of these iPods. I owned a first generation that had a moving wheel. The new versions sport touch wheels with no moving parts and are both sleek and elegant. The only advice I would give is to test out better headphones after a while, as I've found the stock headphones deficient on sound quality (although excellent on comfort.) You can't miss with this product. 10/03 Update: iTMS on iTunes for Windows is here. Now anyone anywhere can access books, radio programs, and 400,000 songs legally downloadable and put it straight onto their iPOD. Coolest part: your favorite artist may soon list his own personal favorite MP3 playlist that you can download to hear what they like. Michael Stipe has one that I'm thinking about getting. As for problems, anyone with a minute of time can problem solve anything that might happen wrong with this iPOD. You'll really be missing out if you don't hang on to the iPOD. 1/04: Just got a digital camera. For the same price of a larger compact card, I got a card reader that transfers images and stores them onto the iPod. Works effortlessly and perfectly with no hassle, as expected. Now I have Gigs of space for digital photos while on vacation, as well as all my music and whatever else I might need on the 40 gig harddrive.
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Summary: i love my iPod more than i love my mother
Review: It's impossible to stress how awesome the iPod is! Cheaper than drugs! Lasts longer than sex! Low in carbs! And prettier than 93% of the girls I ever dated. You can read a hundred other reviews about its ease of use, its multi-functionality, its sleek design, its intuitive interface. Here's some real world Q&A after my first month with my iPod: "Do I really need 40 GB?" If you're like me, you do. I have somewhere around 1300 CDs in my collection, and I've already loaded 6298 songs onto the iPod. Of course, I don't listen to them all, but the great thing about the iPod is you start to remember old songs you'd totally forgotten about. Remember Arcadia's "Election Day"? Or MC 900 Ft Jesus' "If I Only Had a Brain"? Or X's "White Girl"? Or Big Audio Dynamite's "Rush"? Neither did I, but put the iPod on random shuffle, and it's about the best radio station you ever heard. "I download a lot of music. What about that?" If you download a lot of music ILLEGALLY (tsk), then you need to go through a re-tag your MP3s so that the iPod can read them. This is almost a fulltime job. I recommened "TAG & RENAME" which I got from download.com for free. You can rename huge batches of MP3s at a time, and if you have the full album track list, it intuitively tags them for you. It still took me WEEKS. But in searching my hard drive, I'm finding things that I didn't even know I downloaded. Like, why did I download the X-Rated version of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" video three times?? Who knows. "I want to run/excercise/carry it places. Shouldn't I get the mini?" I thought this too, but the 40 GB iPod is the size of a deck of cards. It weighs less than a Zippo lighter. It's slimmer than my cell phone, and slides right into my hip pocket. Screw the mini. Get the big boy, you sissy. "What accessories do I need?" The 40 GB comes with the dock, which lets you connect it right to the auxilliary jack on your stereo, as long as you have a cord, which you can buy at Radioshack for $5. And you can use any old cassette adapter to hook the iPod into the stereo in your car. You don't need to buy anything special here. A few missing niceties would be a decent manual (the manual it comes with is terrible; I'm going to have to get one of the "Missing Manual" books). Also, the case it comes with is great for clipping it to your hip, but doesn't allow access to the buttons. Oh, and the headphones are terrible. Buy new headphones too. "My harddrive is smaller than 40 GB. Since the iPod autosyncs with iTunes, does this mean I can't fill my harddrive?" I wondered about this when I first bought the iPod. My harddrive is only 20GB, and on its default setting, iTunes synchronizes whatever songs are on your iPod to whatever tunes are on your harddrive. To get around this, all you need to do is turn off the default and drag and drop songs manually. It works much better. And in order to simplify everything, I ripped all of my CDs as MP3s first, and then burned the MP3s to data CDs. This cab be a LENGTHY process (like...months). But then you can just load the iPod directly from your CDRs. And should your iPod ever crash, you can later reinstall all of MP3s effortlessly, without having to rip all of your CDs again. For the first couple of months, you may feel like you're working on your iPod in every spare moment: ripping CDs, editing MP3 tags, loading songs, editing playlists. But the payoff is so totally freaking worth it. I LOVE MY IPOD!
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Summary: junk
Review: Your better off with a Nomad. I tried 2 ipods and they will only synch with one PC. So if you want to transfer mp3 from pc to another forget this thing.
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Summary: Ipod Stinks
Review: Got one for Christmas. Tried for a week to get the software installed and configured correctly. After many reconfigures and downloading of updates, the best the Ipod would do was skip like a three legged dog. Went online to Apple and found others with similar problems. Called Apple customer service and afer being on hold for 45 mins, the call was droped by Apple's answering service. After that the Ipod was on it's way back to the store and good ridance.
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Summary: Less than five stars? You can't have really used one.
Review: At a time when the eye-popping technology advances such as seeing the Internet on an Ethernet connection have slowed to incremental improvements, my 20 Gig iPod is a huge quantum leap forward. The iTunes software is a near miracle when mated to the iPod's elegant interface. So what if you have five or ten thousand songs if you can't find them? I am able to find any album, playlist, or song in literally seconds, using just one thumb to twirl the wheel and push a button. The versatility is stunning. You can listen with a headset or on *ANY* sound system, car or home. With a $7 Radio Shack adapter, I use the iPod as the source to drive a 300 Watt amp and speakers that rock my house, or at least the room the speakers are in, with near live rock-show volume. The incongruency between my old 60-pound-each speakers and the 5 ounce iPod on which I have my entire CD collection stored (about 300) is like seeing magic. Or, you show up at a friend's house with your entire collection in your pocket or on your belt. The fidelity is indistinguishable from a commercial CD. I also have a mic and intend to record *all* lectures given in class beginning in a few days. These also can be organized and found with incredible speed and ease. This is one cool product. Initially, iPods seem pricey, but Wow! do you get bang for the buck. The price is very reasonable when you discover the power and control that you hold oh so comfortably in one hand. I honestly don't see how anyone would buy something else (and I looked at stuff for a month). You do need a fairly recent (2-3 year old) PC or Mac. The only negative is the poor headphones that that come in the box, but that's easily fixed with about $15-20. A Homerun product . Everything else is minor league. The iPod is the show.
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Summary: Excessive Costs of Repair
Review: I dropped my new 40 GB iPod in the sink for the briefest of moments. Believe me, it is not all that difficult to do. Water rushed into the docking port and the unit is toast. Naturally, water damage is not covered by the warranty.
But now the bad news ... it costs $249 plus $7 in shipping, or $256 to repair, compared to $399 for a new 40 GB iPod (or $299 for the 20 GB model with the same repair charge). It is the same charge whether covered by warranty or not. There is NO credit for being under warranty whatsoever. Even a battery replacement is $99 plus $7 in shipping.
Apple product support personnel were matter of fact about the charge and the problem of water. One person told me of an iPod destroyed by being splashed poolside. Another mentioned that he has raised internally the problem of water rushing into the docking port. Imagine walking around with this iPod in a steady rain.
My conclusions - the 40 GB iPod is a fragile, expensive piece of equipment with arguably a design flaw. The excessive cost of repairs undermines its attractiveness. It was my first Apple product and my last. Bad show Apple!
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Summary: Great Product
Review: I have had my iPod for a while and love it. I can store all my songs and audio clips on it and never worry about how much space I have left. A cover is an essential accessory to your iPod. I would suggest an egrip cover to keep your iPod from slipping in your car or other smooth surfaces. [...]
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Summary: ipod lover
Review: this ipod is amazing... i got it yesterday with my mini.i love them both to death.
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