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Summary: Best present ever
Review: My wife bought me the 10GB IPOD for christmas and I love it. I read a lot of reviews before I actually recieved it and I'm glad I did. It enabled me to go get a firewire card for my Dell. I had downloaded ITunes months ago so when the Ipod arrived, I was ready to go.I opened the box, plugged it into the firewire and, within 5 minutes, an update was downloaded and my entire 3.5 Gb of music I already had on my harddrive was on transferred. I have not been able to put the thing down ever since. I also bought the Belkin FM tranmitter so I can listen in my car. There is a little static but basicly sounds good. I now have over a thousand songs ready to go, in the palm of my hands.
For those having Windows compatability problems, I found a few hints at Techtv.com and ipodlounge. Good luck to you. Once you get it working, you will love it.
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Summary: Still The Best
Review: I've had my iPod for a couple of months now, and it has been one of my best purchases ever. I've had no problems with the battery, and the software on both the iPod and my computer work seamlessly and flawlessly, making it nothing less than a joy to sync up my music with it. The battery lasts for hours, and it charges when it's hooked up to my computer. I've noticed people complaining about the battery conking out. My friend had a similar problem with his iPod, read those complaints, decided he'd been screwed, and got mad at Apple. I told him to send it to them with an explanation of what wasn't working. He did, and they sent him a brand new one the next week. That is not bad customer service.
The thing about the iPod that is scary is its high price tag, otherwise everyone would have one. There are now competitors/imitators out for less mulah, and the reviews for all of them seem to flatter said devices. I have noticed, however, that all of these reviews mention the iPod and compare them quite defensively with it which shows me that iPod, though it has competitors, is still the best, and still the measure of what a digital media jukebox should be. If you want the best out there, get an iPod. If you want a cheaper one with confusing software, and crummy, ugly hardware, get an imitator. My recomendation is to save up for an iPod. It's worth it. (I've also heard rumors of a less expensive, smaller model coming out soon.. Maybe wait for that?)
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Summary: GET A FIREWIRE CARD FIRST!!!!! (PC USERS)
Review: otherwise you are going to be staring at your iPod and wondering when the mailman is going to come with your firewire card.so please, buy that first.. or the firewire to usb cable from apple (about 19 bucks). now that that's out the way. the iPod rocks. i haven't had any problems with it once i got used to it. if you have problems with the iPod then you have no idea what you are doing.
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Summary: Awful for PC users
Review: This is the worst christmas present I have received. I am STILL waiting for my connector cord to see if my PC will even recognize the thing.
I have stored all my music in the itunes and foolishly downloaded some music, which I cannot burn onto the disc, a common problem for PC users.
I'm happy for the PC users that haven't had problems, but I would seriously recommend anyone with a PC to try anything but apple.
Support from Apple website, a week ago I sent an e-mail, still waiting for a reply.
I've spent hours searching on the ipod website trying to find a solution, to no avail.
Too late to return it, will probably give it to someone I like who has a MAC or someone I hate who has a PC.
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Summary: Love It!! Love itunes!!
Review: I can't say enough about my love affair with my ipod. I can store all my cds and organize by playlist. Plus I can download on itunes $1/song site. I am the type of person who would reluctantly shell out $15+ for cds when I only wanted one song so this is a perfect system for me. Love itunes for all the reasons I love Amazon. You can see what others are buying and they have these cool celebrity playlists so you can check out what Sting listens too. Lastly, ever since my toddler put coins in my car's cd player, we haven't been able to use it. Several accessories allow us to play our ipod over our car's stereo system (for under $25) and this has allowed us to forgoe the $300 repair. I don't use the calendar function as of yet but I plan to give it a try. P.S. I prefer the Sony cassete players vs am transmitters. We tried both.
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Summary: Help for those Looking at an Ipod
Review: I recently purchased an 10 gig ipod, the first thing i noticed was the unusual package it came with very different from the other typical bubble wraped items. The unit is very small and fits easyily in your hand. One problem lots of windows users seem to be having is that no USB adapter is included. Well to lots this means you would need a new usb 2.0 card and the usb adapter. I recommend just purchasing a firewire card which are around 19.99. Or you can purchase a usb 2.0 and firewire card (mine cost 39.99). Your probably wondering why i would want a firewire over usb 2.0. Since the usb is 80mbs faster. Well the ipod will only upload songs about 15 mbps so the usb is pointless. The firewire also charges your unit and you already have the needed cords. Just a quick reference for those windows users looking into buying the ipod. Also musicmatch i have found is MUCH better then itunes, it allows you to fix all your song tags automatically by looking them up, which is a big help if your like me and have a ton of mp3 that are all with messed up song titles and such.
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Summary: Fun to have, but some complaints....
Review: Most things are just a matter of taste and preference. I have really enjoyed having my iPod. I haven't had any problems between my iPod and my Windows XP PC. I purchased my iPod simply for walking and traveling. I have hundreds of CD's, and I was able to fit all the songs I wanted onto my 10GB iPod with tons of room left over. I really like the option of purchasing songs on iTunes, as well as the audiobooks. PROS - Small, easy to handle
- For the most part, user friendly interface and design
- I love being able to take all my music with me in such a small, slim package
- Having the backlighting is very useful, but uses up a lot of battery
- iTunes is easy to use (although they have never responded to any inquiries) CONS - Overall good quality in earbuds, but could be better
- Earbuds slightly uncomfortable to wear (this is probably not true for all)
- Shameful battery life, even in warmer weather
- Face of iPod scratches fairly easily In my opinion, the iPod is overpriced. But I do not regret purchasing it, and have enjoyed using it.
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Summary: don't waste your $ or time!!
Review: It is now January 3 and I have devoted days of my christmas vacation attempting to get my son's christmas gift to work- if it was not the poor kid's "big gift", I would have given up days ago. I have never been as frustrated, I have never written a review. My guess is, you need an apple- I have two brand new dells and the IPOD really didn't work on either. The software that PC users use (jukebox) is also not great- I have now paid for an update of that and I won't use it- I am down at least $375 and countless hours!!
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Summary: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY
Review: First let me say the sound quality is very good, but it can't handle the low frequencies of hip hop and rap, but rock is fine, even impressive at the same volume (about 2/3 up). Ease of use is good. Too bad it does not come with a belt clip and the nylon/steel clip is $39.00 on Apples accessories page. My complaint stems from the fact that you cannot erase the songs from your compuetrs hardrive. In other words you cant use your computer as a platform to build a music collection on your iPod, because iPod will erase the songs on iPod that you have erased on your computer. So you really don't get 10GB more, what you purchase is a $300 mirror, unless you set up to manually load your iPod which they explain how to do in the manual. The factory preset is to mirror your computers hardrive which will cause you to lose your songs if you have the least bit of wanton excitement in loading songs to your new toy like I did, and like most people do.
The battery lasts 18 months and then you have to buy a new iPod, but iPod does not export back to your computer so when you get your new iPod you have to start from scratch, and build your music collection again. If you only had CD's burned onto your iPod, your fine. You'll only spend a month of free time loading your iPod, but if you had purchased music from iTunes, you are up a creek, because they won't give them back to you, even though they know exactly what you purchased before and won't even respond to your e-mails or feedback links from their web page. There are cheaper alternatives that last longer and probably come with a belt clip.
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Summary: i love this thing
Review: i got a new 10 gb ipod for christmas and i absolutely love it. i was worried when i read the reviews becuasse people siad they had problems with the ipod on windows. i have a dell with xp and i had no problem at all setting things up. i recomend using i tunes which just came out for windows. the 10gb hold 2500 songs. i love i tunes and this is the best present i have ever gotten.
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