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Summary: Phenomenal MP3, er, AAC Player
Review: Apple's iPod is a truly wonderful MP3 (or AAC or AIFF, etc.) player. I've only used it with a Mac, so I can't answer to how well it works with a PC (and I won't bother to proselytize by giving my rather biased but well informed opinion of PCs in general ;-). It took me about 30 minutes to upload ~15GB of songs when I first sync'd it with my computer. I'm using the remaining 15GB for future songs (let's hear it for Apple's music store!) and blazingly fast nightly backups of my hard drive. You can by a cheaper player, but you cannot buy a better one.
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Summary: love it!
Review: Works seamlessly with my imac. I have 3 solid weeks (21 days and 8 hours) of music in a box barely larger than my cell phone. The headphones are hands down the best of their kind i've ever used. Combined with iTunes, you can buy a new album on your computer, and within 2 minutes you can walk out the door with the album you just bought, in a sound quality unrivaled by any other online music store. I keep my calendar, todo list, address book, and a notepad on mine - all automatically synced back to my computer whenever i plug it in. And because the ipod runs an actual operating system, the software on the ipod itself can be updated, and free new features are available every once in a while, so the little wonder won't be going obsolete any time soon.
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Summary: Good concept, poor battery life, hostile customer service
Review: The iPod is definitely the hottest music player in the world. The new series, confusingly still called iPod...is even leaner and meaner. However, I find the new button layout not as innovative or intuitive as the old wheely one, and the battery life is considerably shorter than the original version...
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Summary: Apple Ipod 20 Gb
Review: Apple continues to refine their product line with the introduction of this incredible machine. The storage capacity of the I-Pod, the features, as well as the ease of use and design features make it by far the best Mp3 player on the market today. It's userability far exceeds that of competitors products, and its storage capacity compared to its size are unrivaled. An amazing product and a reccommended buy for anyone...The new model is especially great with more features including more games and backlit buttons.
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Summary: jsc31676...boo ya lots of music! love it!
Review: Besides the fact I have my entire cd collection (a lot) ... 30 gigs is great, I now can store images and songs on the fly...... I can't wait to travel now! IF you have the extra bucks go for it. The ipod itself is so small. Fits in my hand with ease. I use it at work so the dock it a huge bonus. I'm not sure about the early compaints of battery time. The display and menu are easy to go through. I could go through all the technical stuff, but if you really want one, just do it! ... good luck if you do purchase! long live the mac!
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Summary: Windows users beware
Review: The iPod itself, if you're able to get songs onto it, is a wonderful device for music lovers. The low rating here has to do with Apple's typical disregard for Windows users. Apple seems to want to believe that everyone out there has a mac when the reality is 96% of people use Windows. That's an actual statistic. A LITTLE HISTORY I had a 20 gig iPod and after dozens of calls to Apple customer service, I never got it working. They told me to send it back but to do so you need to fill out a web-form to get a box to send it back. That form didn't work. They blamed it on my computer. Now, I'm a web designer by trade and I know a thing or two about computers. I have both Macs and PC's. So I tried the form from three other computers and none of them worked. Another call to Apple. They guy would NOT take my information to send me a return box over the phone an snottily told me that I'd have to find a computer that worked with form. I opted to sell the 20GB on ebay. Windows users interact with the iPod via MusicMatch Jukebox, a fine program by itself that I've used for years, and a stand-alone iPod manager program that is so buggy it makes me crazy. First off, you're going to need a particular version of MusicMatch. And I mean particular. If you have 7.5.xxxx1 and you need 7.5.xxxx2, it won't work. I had to completely remove MusicMatch from my system several times including going through the registry and removing all MusicMatch elements. If you're a windows user get used to these phrases "Can't Mount iPod" and "Can't UnMount iPod". They are the error messages that you will see over and over tyring to configure your iPod. MusicMatch is set to attach to the iPod by default, so trying to use the iPod manager to format your iPod will frequently cause conflicts. After literally hours of fiddling I got the new 30GB to take a download of my 25 gigs of music. This takes a couple hours. I look on the iPod and the artists are duplicated up to 10 times! I call customer service again.... well, you must have duplicated the library. Well folks, that's impossible because I've only downloaded to the thing once. "Hmm, beats me, says the tech". That's helpful, thanks. The fallback generic answer at Apple is "Restore" your iPod (this erases all the information on the iPod folks, and you're starting over). Well, you can't restore because the iPod manager can't get control over the iPod because MusicMatch (even though it's not open) has somehow "mounted" the iPod. On and on it goes. Hey APPLE! Wake up. The world uses Windows, sorry about that, but if you want to make money with this product MAKE IT WORK WITH WINDOWS!!
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Summary: Apple's New iPOD THE tech gift for 2003
Review: I'm a music lover, but I lack the obsession that early adopters in the MP3 player world tend to have. I don't download from Napster-like sites, I don't craft playlists (yet), I don't spend my waking hours with my mix cranking in my eardrums. Thus, I missed the iPOD completely the first time around. What caught my eye with the new 30 GB iPOD is the following: - 7500 song capacity (that's around 700 CDs of music)
- Dual Win/Mac platform support
- Supports USB 2.0 and Firewire (dock with cable for USB 2.0 will be out in July)
- Tiny and lightweight
- 8 hour battery life This combination made this a winner for me---I could now put my paltry 200 CD music collection in one place, accessible to me at any time. I travel a lot for work, so the prospect of being able to hear anything I want to hear on the long, boring flights was certainly welcome. I dropped a Firewire/USB 2.0 card in my computer (about $79). Installing the iPOD software took 2 minutes; after that, I used the MusicBox application to begin ripping CDs. A typical CD takes less than 5 minutes to transfer this way versus 10-15 using RealPlayer. Aside from having to wait a few moments for the system to recognize the iPOD attached, transfer to the iPOD went off without a hitch. I moved some 50 CDs over to the iPOD in about 10 minutes through my FireWire; at least, it was done by the time I checked on it 10 minutes later. The iPOD works great on headphones, through my car audio (used one of those cassette headphone adapters for that), through PC speakers, and through my stereo. The audio quality is CD-level, insofar as I can discern. The packaging is a thing of beauty (as is the unit and accessories, as one would expect from Apple). The instructions are clear and a quick reference guide is included. The only negatives I can come up with involve the dual power/docking cord being in a slightly different configuration than your typical FireWire cable---it limits you to using this one cable for everything or buying another. Also, Apple offers no equivalent to its iTunes music store for purchasing single downloads to PC users as of yet. This is a sensational product with virtually unlimited potential---I for one am going to push a bunch of my Powerpoint presentations over to it so as to have them on the road. This'll cut down on my having to carry a bunch of data CDs with me and there's plenty of room on the iPOD to carry them plus my CD collection. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best and Cute MP3 Player on Digital Market
Review: Best design and cool interface, syncing with both Windows PCs and Macs, excellent play list features.
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Summary: Where's my genetic code?
Review: I downloaded my genetic code on my new 30gb iPod. Stupid me! I didn't back it up! The next day--poof!--my code is gone. Now I'm a puddle on the floor. Great headphones!
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Summary: Much more than I expected!
Review: I'm a new "switcher" and it was the iPod that bumped me off the fence. The ultimate travel companion - I've downloaded almost my entire CD collection and several books from Audible.com so I'm never without company even on long stretches of country road. I was going to go with XM - but with the iPod I don't feel the need any longer.
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