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Summary: This is the best!!
Review: I am one of the happy customers of Apple products and this ipod is as reliable as my past 2 ibooks. I was a PC owner and switched to Macs a few years ago and would never go back. Even with the incompatibility problem of windows with Macs I still will always purchase the Apple product. The ipod is so easy to use and the setup was quite simple. I also purchased the itrip and it also works great. I am a 49 year old married woman and love this toy! If you are looking for the best you can buy and the item that will always get the oohs and aahs, then go for the ipod. As others have said, you do indeed, get what you pay for!!
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Summary: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDIN ME!!
Review: CHRISTMAS 2003 AM, MY SON GETS AN IPOD FOR CHRISTMAS...REALLY EXCITED. NOW, I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER, NO FIREWIRE PORT(COME ON) AND A KID WHO CANNOT DOWNLOAD ANY SONGS UNTIL I CAN GET TO THE STORE TO BUY ALL THE OTHER PARTS I NEED TO MAKE THIS THING WORK. OK, NOT THAT $299.00 PLUS SHIPPING WASN'T ENOUGH. I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT AN APPLE PRODUCT BEFORE, AND AFTER ALL THIS AGGRAVATION, I NEVER WILL AGAIN. BUYER BEWARE!
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Summary: It's amazing.
Review: I just got the iPod for Xmas, and although an MP3 player wasn't the highest priority for me, once I opened the package I was gone. It was so easy to create an iTunes playlist to sync with the iPod, and the wicked fast download time blew me away! Within an hour I was listening to music. From the design (about 1/3 the total size of its cheaper - in both senses of the word - competitors) to compatibility with the iTunes Music Store to the ability to use it as a hard drive to transfer files, after one day I'm already wondering what I did without it.Next steps are to sync up with my iCal calendar and get an iTrip so I can use the iPod in my car. On the downside, my GF told me of the trouble she had just getting an iPod - first everyone was sold out, and then she had to deal with the salesman's FUD-inducing attempt to sell an extended warranty (the ipodsdirtysecret site is an outright lie, and anyone who does their research knows that the battery is rated for 3 years of normal use, and that it IS replaceable). I told her next time, buy it from Amazon. ;-)
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Summary: I wanted to hate this so bad
Review: Just because I hate having money in my bank account, I decided to buy a hard drive player last month. I checked out the iRiver ihp-120, Rio Karma, iPod, Napster, and Zen. In the end I narrowed it down to the iRiver and the Rio and wound up going with iRiver. Although that I believe that it's still the best player, this little thing certainly gives it a run for its money. Of course, it's by far the best looking player. The scrollwheel is maybe the coolest feature I've seen on anything, ever. It takes me sometimes more than 30 seconds to navigate through the 350 or so folders on my IRiver. With Apple, it's instantanious. I also can't stress enough how good this thing feels in you're hand. If you don't believe me, go down to the apple store and see for yourself. (don't if you are not willing to part with three hundred dollars) As cool as it might be though, it comes down to a question of what you're getting and for how much. All these players are only a hard drive and a sound card. Firstly, you're paying 20 gig prices for a 10 gig player that doesn't sound any better than anything else out there. Most other players will include a case, and in my case i even got a remote with LCD. Other players can also act as digital audio recorders. I also can't stand MusicMatch, I'm pretty much neutral about iTunes. So I leave it up to you. There's a lot of convincing reasons to buy an iPod. If you want a great looking player that does nothing else besides play what you tell it to, this is for you. For features and better Window's compatability, I'd reccomend looking elsewhere.
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Summary: I-Pod on PC
Review: I just got it this Christmas morning, luckily I did my research in advance and got a firewire card for my laptop. It is working well, no problems and it will be sweet to take my music collection to work with me!
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Summary: sucks but i'm sure its great
Review: i would be able to post a review but my ipod didnt come with a usb cable . tell me this is not screwed up. on the box it clearly says win or mac . i would asume most win users are using a pc and pc owners rarely have firewire adapters becuase usb is so freakin popular. ... i wonder how many poeple share my thoughts on this christmas morning
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Summary: How could you live without it?
Review: I never go anywhere -- whether on a transatlantic flight or the bus to the other side of town -- without my iPod. It's the thing that sets my life to music ... the music I choose for it. I've used three iPod's in my life: my old original 5MB; the replacement, an old thick 10MB; and now a (sadly, borrowed) super slim 10MB, and each represented a huge leap forward from the previous one. Starting from a well-designed and easy-to-use baseline product, the good folks at Apple have honed and advanced the technology and design until ending up with something that is so intuitive, so sleek, and so addictive that it makes other MP3 players I've seen and used appear to have been designed by cave men. I'm not the most qualified person to delve into all the technical specs of this delightful little machine, and, besides, that info is fully available elsewhere on this page. But I will write that the iPod is a joy to own and when you get yours you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.
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Summary: Another overpriced Apple product.
Review: Another overprice Apple product.
First off you can get a Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 40 GB MP3 Player for $15 more that holds 4 times as many songs at this iPod. Or you can pay $200 more for an iPod of the same size. Second, sorry it may look nicer, but the nomad has a better sound. Third, checkout www.ipodsdirtysecret.com. Apple wanted you to buy a new ipod every 18 months. Finally after tons of bad press they caved and now you can either pay $59 a year for a year warranty or $99 to get the battery replaced EVERY 18 months. It's so nice to see Apple take care of it's customers. If you were smart and went with the nomad you can replace the battery yourself.
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Summary: Yet another great product from Apple...
Review: I've had my ipod for a while now, and have recently started to use it on my mac, an ibook. The intergration between the two is seamless, especially with itunes doing it's music management stuff. Also the ibook and ipod manage to look great together as well! One suggestion for apple is that the battery life seems a little on the short side, especially for a product that is supposed to hold so much music and data, sorting that out would be a step in the right direction, however is no major problem. Overall the ipod is a great product, and at this moment in time way ahead of the competition- a great buy!
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Summary: Simply Fantastic
Review: I had to post a review of the iPod not because this piece of electronics needs my endorsement (it doesn't, obviously), but, rather, because of the inane and flat out wrong statements being made about the unit. Firstly, one reviewer made the comment that PC companies no longer incorporate Firewire in their units. Well, with the exception of a few companies (Sony) they never did! USB2 does boast excellent transfer times but to complain because a $399 Dell doesn't have Firewire is just ludicrous. PC companies do not include Firewire standard because it is too expensive. Apple does, which is one of the many reasons their machines cost an arm and a leg. Secondly, another reviewer complained that they had quite a bit of difficulty getting their iPod to work with their Dell. Welcome to the world of Windows incompatability. Again, Macintosh computers cost more because, generally, you do not have the same level of frustration trying to get things "to work". Yes, the iPod works flawlessly with a Mac, but for a vast majority of Windows users it's worked flawlessly as well; it's important to have the correct version of the iPod's OS and the most updated version of iTunes in order to have a quality Windows experience. Lastly, sound quality is fairly subjective. I will say that every audiophile publication that I have read (both electronic and print) has extolled the sound quality of the iPod. Remember, sound quality is only as good as the source. If you expect the latest top 40 hit downloaded from Kazaa at 96kbps to sound good, you've got another thing coming. For a portable, the sound quality is exceptional. If you enjoy music at all, if you like the fact that you can have every song in your collection at your fingertips, if size and ease of use are important to you, then you will become attached to your iPod like no other piece of electronics. I am a 35 year-old father of three and have rediscovered music because of the iPod. I listen in the car, during my prep periods (I'm an 8th grade teacher) and while I run. In short, it's with me all the time. Remember, you get what you pay for, and with an iPod that's a lot!
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