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Summary: Has to be alien technology!
Review: Apple has out done itself on form and function once again! I have never been a fan of the Apple format, but the ipod tempted me into purchasing an Apple product. The only drawback was the MusicMatch Jukebox software that handles windows based PCs. After many, many problems ... I ... downloaded ephpod (freeware) to handle the uploading of my music files to the ipod and never had another problem. Hurray ipod and freeware (now I have one more device I can't live without).
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Review: After struggling with the installation, due to the fault of my computer, not the iPod, I have finally loaded it with music. Looking at the spectacular design, playing with the cool little hand remote, and, oh yeah, listening to the music, I am blown away by Apple. I used to not like them, but now I can't help but love them. This little machine is truly a piece of artwork. When I was considering buying it, I was slightly turned off by it's price, but now that it's here, I think it's worth every penny.
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Summary: Gave me AIDS
Review: This MP3 player gave me AIDS. That is why I don't enjoy using it very too much.
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Summary: Great Design but problems with audio quality and battery
Review: I bought a 15GB ipod and after three days I decided to return it. The design is absolutely great and it was one of the aspects that stopped me from returning it at the beginning. Furthermore, being able to store all my CDs was also great However, I am a minidisc user, and the main problems I found with the ipod were the audio quality and the battery life. I get around 14 hours of battery life from the minidisc, but only 6 and a half with the ipod. Furthermore, although the sound quality of the ipod is pretty good (much better than other mp3 players I had in the past), as soon as you use the equalizer with bass intense songs the audio is distorted (I tried different headphones). I read another review complaining about the same and I have to admit that is true. If you disable the equalizer, the distorsion disappears, but of course, you loose sound quality. I played the same song with the minidisc and the ipod at the same time and kept changing the headphones from one to the other, and the sound from the ipod was not as rich.
I will wait for the next ipod version and hopefully they will correct these two problems.
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Summary: Broke in 1 week and a 10% fee to return from Apple
Review: Locked up and overheated. The Apple store had great difficulty trying to reset my Ipod - after many tries - it finally reset. They charged me a 10% restocking fee to return it- since they were able to reset the ipod. I could tell it was defective. I have always stayed away from Apple as a PC owner. They have always abused their customers dating back to the earliest Macs with the motherboard scandals. If one owns a Apple computer - they 'got you' like in th old days of the PC. It is like owning an exotic car - it just has to look good - whether or not it works is not really important. It is the style that matters!
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Summary: Unbelievable Fun For Music Lovers!
Review: I will spare you the technical details and operational tips pertaining to Apple's iPod, (check out Apple's website for the "full monty")....but as these amazing devices are so user-friendly and intuitive, you probably won't need much schooling anyway.
I use my iPod on a daily basis. I take long road trips, and using a Sony cassette adapter (available at many chain stores).
I can listen to several DAYS worth of tuneskis anywhere I go. I used to pack dozens of CDs into my car for extended trips (ya gotta have music on a road trip).
I no longer take CDs on trips in my car, yet I can listen to tons of songs with full CD quality. (I still enjoy MP3, but nowadays I rip my CD tracks using Apple's newer AAC format, which is more efficient than MP3, yet sounds even better). I can listen to these songs in a given order, or listen to them "shuffled" and played randomly. It's a massive jukebox, in a package no larger than a deck of cards. Currently, I have over 800 songs (two and a half days worth of continual music) on my 15GB iPod, and I am not even using one third of the storage capacity available to me, which tells me that I can burn the bulk of my CD collection onto this tiny little unit with ease.
A slim, elegantly designed case with touch sensitive controls and easy-as-pie navigation, iPods are all about FUN.
Well done, Apple.
P.S. - a visit to Apple's new Music Store (now integrated with iTunes 4) may remind you of potato chips. Just as you can't eat only one chip, you can't buy just one song for 99 cents. It's seriously addictive.
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Summary: iPOD on PC is initially unusable
Review: Apple really needs to be hit with a silly stick for shipping the brand new iPOD with what possibly has to be one of the worst mp3 management applications musicmatch. Firstly, it doesn't work correctly under windows 2000. Secondly their dock and undock application is extremely fragile under W2K.This is how it works. To a PC, the ipod looks like a 15GB SBP2 hard drive. That's right a harddrive. While it is connected to the PC it disables all menu functions and remains in hard drive mode. This part is fine. Apple ships a dock/undock util which doesn't quite do the right thing. If you use the built in MS hotplug device tray util things work much better. The apple util only removes the drive letter, not the 1394 device. The microsoft one removes the whole subsystem, a much cleaner way to go and less error prone under WIN2Ks less than stellar 1394 stack. Music match. Lord what an unstable application. Like many windows apps it's all glitz and no stability. I spent 3 hours trying to get it to work with the iPod. I reformatted the iPod at least 4 times. No files would transfer to the iPod. Only play lists. This was a horrible out of the box experience. I bought this as a gift. I'm not a neophtye, I know how this stuff should work. Especially having seen the OSX work just beautifully in comparison. Solution ? Download ephpod, as recommended by other users on Amazon. This app rocks. It's simple, reliable, stable and it works just beautifully under W2K. MM may have bells and whistles, but as a device manager it fails miserably. Apple should buy ephpod and ship that as the standard device manager, because right now the iPod is pretty much unusable under windows. It might be better under XP but I'm not using XP so that's not all that helpful. The iPod itself is beautifully presented in almost japanese style understated packaging. The device itself is a modern miracle and has much to recommend it. 10 out of 10 for the ipod itself. 1 out of 10 for music match. Apple I do hope you are listening.
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Summary: Positively awesome!
Review: When I buy electronics, I usually look for items that serve multiple purposes (ie I waited for a DVD player until Playstation 2 came out so I'd be gettng two machines in one). My husband and I have been looking to upsize from our current iMac since we can't upgrade the video card, and 8 mb just isn't enough for some of the programs we're running. Since we'd been wanting an MP3 player, and we also wanted to be able to transfer the iMac's information onto an external hard drive, we figured this would serve both purposes well.
Although I'm not much of an audiophile, I really love the clarity of the sound that the iPod offers- so if even I can tell the difference, it must be pretty drastic. Transferring music to the iPod is really very simple: Launch iTunes, put in the CD's you want, select the songs you want iTunes to import, and when you're done with that, plug the iPod into the FireWire port, and it automatically sends the songs to the iPod.
A word of warning to those with lower-end Power Macs: importing songs from a CD to iTunes can take a long time. I'm currently running on an iMac with a 450 mhz processor, and each song takes from 1-2 minutes to import. But despite this, sending the songs from iTunes to the iPod is extremely fast- I sent 59 songs from iTunes to the iPod, and it only took maybe 30 seconds.
From reading the instructions included with the iPod, transferring songs from the PC to the iPod is relatively simple too, although it takes a couple more steps to do so on a PC than it does on a Mac.
The new design of the iPod is excellent as well. The buttons are extremely touch-sensitive, but I have found that they are only sensitive with fingers, not objects such as pens. I was able to adjust the volume and switch from song to song with my fingertips effortlessly, but when I tried to use the top of a pen, it wouldn't go. I think this is a very helpful feature, especially if you're going to be carrying this in your pocket, purse, etc.
Just as a word to the wise, if you are considering purchasing an FM transmitter to listen to the iPod in your car or personal stereo, a better option is to use a cassette adapter, like the ones that come with CD car adapters. The FM transmitters have a lot of static, whereas the casette adapter replicates pretty closely the crystal-clear sound in the iPod itself.
Some people may wonder why to purchase the iPod instead of a lower-end MP3 player and there are two major reasons: ease of use, and the large amount of drive space avaiable. If you have an emergency situation where you need to transfer a large amount of information from one computer to another, the iPod is ideal: just connect the iPod to the computer and send the files to the iPod. Of course, you can't open these files on the iPod itself, but it's a great extra hard drive in a pinch.
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Summary: Simple
Review: I previously kept all of my music on Minidisc because I wanted something small that could change music quickly. Now the iPod is small enough and holds ALL of my music, plus it's very easy to use. I'm using mine on a mac with the new iTunes music store which really makes purchasing music quick and easy. Finally, the mac version supports the new mp4(AAC) format for small, high-quality music.
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Summary: Astral
Review: The coolest thing ever best music device made believe me IVE SEEN EM ALL so buy it dont have any doubts
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