Take your iPod with you and your music collection goes with you
Written: Dec 15 '02
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Pros: pocket-sized skip-proof crystal-clear-sounding zowie-user-interface neato-PIM-features
Cons: capacity huge-but-finite; back catches fingerprints
The Bottom Line: If you buy any MP3 player, take a look at the iPod first.
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| JohnnySoftware's Full Review: Apple iPod 1st Generation 10 GB (MAC) MP3 Player |
I love the iPod. It defines the standard for what an MP3 player should be.
This model holds 10 GB. At the moment I have 115 albums loaded into Apple iTunes 3 my library taking up 6.69 GB. That is not bad, 1305 songs lasting 3.5 days. It's more than enough for me to listen to for a very lengthy vacation, play at a week long stay at a beach house, keep a friend's stereo jammin' at a weekend long party, etc. However, to hold my whole collection, including the albums I have not loaded yet, I would need the 20 GB model. If you have a CD of only 140 or 150 albums, this model is all you need. If you are already pushing 200 and planning to grow it significantly over the next couple years, consider the 20 GB model.
The size of the iPod is so great - the size of a deck of playing cards, which lets face it - are the proverbial "pocket sized" if anything earns that title: shirt pocket, sports jacket pocket, coat pocket - just about anything but i would not put it in the back pocket of your pants. Duh, probably not too comfortable there when you sit down either.
If you have one of the new 2001 or later Macs running OS X 10.1, 10.2, or later - you should have iTunes. If you like music or even audio books - you probably love iTunes. Well, iPod lets you carry all your iTunes in your pocket; to work, in the car, to friends, to where ever you go - assuming you have a shirt, pants, belt, purse, backpack, or car seat to stick it on. If you are running around outside naked then I guess you could still carry it in your hand - it is light.
The ear buds are too large for me; they make my ears hurt after a while. I have small ear canals. Most people except little children will probably find them okay. I have bought a variety of low-cost light weight headphones to go with my iPod. No problems with them. You can get very decent ones starting at ten bucks and even active environmental sound blocking ones for fifty. So the buds are not an issue for me; to be fair I am an issue for them, I have yet to find any ear buds I like.
Range of volume is good. Sound quality is wonderful.
You can get all kinds of options to play an iPod or other portable music player (CD, MP3, whatever) through conventional speaker systems. I have an iRock RF modulator which only works in some areas when I am driving around in my car, but just blew everybody away with its perfect sound modulating the iPod out through my mom's home stereo. In the car I use a cassette-audio adapter plugged in via an electronic cassette into my car stereo; works great. In the office or walking around downtown, I use the headphones.
Downloading speed from an iMac to my iPod is fantastic: very fast. Thank goodness for the Firewire port that today's Macs and the iPod have.
If you have an iPod you can love your music everywhere.
Apple has also been good enough to add a new feature to the iPods. The latest Mac and iPod software supports downloading your calendars from iCal and your addresses from Address Book.
I really like my iPod. Can you tell?
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Amount Paid (US$): 499
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Member: John
Location: Maryland, USA
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About Me:
Lifetime native of the DC suburbs, working as a programmer since I went to college.
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