...and I must say that Apple is absolutely brilliant. I bought the new 30gb iPod and, in anticipation of the arrival of my new toy, I made around 400 AAC files at 320k and the sound quality is great. I created various playlists, equalizer settings for various albums, etc. All of this was done in iTunes.

The iPod arrived and I unpacked it... I plugged the firewire cable in and it automatically connected to iTunes and synchronized everything. It only took a couple of minutes to transfer nearly 400 songs and all the settings to the iPod.

I ejected the iPod, made more AAC files and playlists and then docked it again. It synchronized flawlessly and very quickly. This thing is absolutely the BEST portable audio device in the known universe.

Yay for Apple!

Yay for Apple!!!

IceNine said:

I might look into one of those.

Muse2noPharaoh said:

iPod

Cloudbuster said:

Is it something I said?

teller said:

I'm not even joking when I say that I was totally blown away by the thing... and I am a bit hard to impress at most times.

Muse2noPharaoh said:

Buy... now... today... purchase...

IceNine said:

Your not the boss of me!

IceNine said:

Yeah, but the iPod just ruins all other mp3 players.

Muse2noPharaoh said:

Shop... spend... procure... acquire...

teller said:

You are absolutely right... the iPod is absolutely worth the extra money. That little jewel can even be used to boot your computer... strange, but true.

IceNine said:

Yes!

Muse2noPharaoh said:

Excellent... go here:

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Muse2noPharaoh said:

True. I am.

Cloudbuster said:

Is that so?

Muse2noPharaoh said:

Cloudbuster said:

:LOL:

I'm going to buy an ibook or powerbook before I leave for London and am really considering investing in an iPod as well. I'm glad you've found it so great Ice - that gives me even more incentive to get it.

IceNine said:

so give me some tips. I had heard that you can drop them and they wipe themselves out??? Are they repairable??? What if transfer the music, delete from hard drive, transfer more etc etc. and then its stolen your pod AND songs are gone. Just seems fishy to me. Prove me wrong. How do you like itunes?
[This message was edited Sun Jul 13 14:39:07 PDT 2003 by jthad1129]

jthad1129 said:

The iPod could, of course, be broken if dropped... it has a hard drive in it and hard drives don't like being dropped, but it is not any more likely to be damaged by that sort of thing than any other electronic device with a hard drive.

There is no real reason to clear the songs from your hard drive, but you could back them up to DVD or something if you are worried about losing songs. As far as theft goes, it is not Apple's fault if your songs are lost due to someone stealing your iPod.

iTunes is absolutely wonderful... VERY simple and intuitive... NO learning curve at all. The same goes for the iPod, as iTunes does all the work for you.

Why did you resist for so long? Was it kind of iPod Foreplay???

Natsume said:

They are really, really great.

I hope that Apple gets the new 15.4" Powerbook out in time for your trip... that will be the one to buy.

A new Powerbook and an iPod would be a potent combination!

REDFEATHERS said:

I just thought that they were too expensive and I didn't imagine that they would be SO MUCH better than everything else out there... I was wrong. They are FAR better than anything else out there and the price is fine with me.

The new version is smaller and lighter than the previous iPods, so I went for it and I found that the iPod really is all that people say that it is.

IceNine said:

thanks

thanks! My friend had one and while at work (with earphones in) it fell off his desk. When it broke he had a horrible time trying to get it fixed and should have ended up just buying a new one. Its a catch 22, no one else can repair them, they charge an arm and a leg, and no one tells you how fragile they are in the ad.

IceNine said:

15.4" Powerbook! I'm in Heaven. However, I might have to settle with an iBook since I already have a desktop computer and the extra money and everything.

iPod

man i really want one but i am resisting at the moment cuz i figure i only have 62 tracks on my itunes anyway. and i'm not going to get the cheaper mosel ipod cuz it doesn't come with the dock but i don't need 9000 songs all the time.

i figure i'll give it another year or maybe two years and the ipod will be the ultimate lifestyle tool. i'm looking forward to a colour screen, maybe it will be a mobile phone, maybe you could download songs via the itunes store str8 to your ipod, etc, etc...it's bound to happen.
but job well done. everytime i go out the damn door tho, someone is rocking the white headphones.

Ooh! I want one of the new iPods... you lucky git!