Apple iPod 40 GB White M9245LL/A (3rd Generation) OLD MODEL by Apple Computer
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Digital camera Review: Apple's iPod Has Forever Changed the Way We Enjoy Music!
Summary: 5 Stars
We just purchased a 40GB iPod after being dedicated Mac users for many years who never really saw the "need" for an iPod. Now I don't know how we ever lived without it.
So much has already been written and said about it here, in the NY Times, and just about anywhere computers and audio products are reviewed, that I won't bother to tell you the 3 dozen reasons why we love it. I'll just say this:
I've been a professional musician for so long that I had really lost the love the music. I own well over 2000 CDs, many of which I never really properly listened to. Upon buying the iPod, we started ripping them and something really amazing started to happen.
We started listening to music again.
At first there were 20 albums on there, then there were 80, then 300, and so on... We're still ripping those CDs today and eventually hope to have anything and everything on there that's any good. Even using the simple categorization by genre, we're able to listen to an entire evening of jazz, or classical, or ambient, or rock, or whatever, without ever really getting bored. With one simple plug, it runs through our stereo and suddenly we get it.
CDs are dead.
They're a legacy format that eventually will look like the 8-track tape or the fax, or LPs.
The iPod mixed with iTunes and the Apple Music Store is not the future. It's the present. It's now.
It's so hard to say more than that without losing those who have never had one, and seeing the familiar nods from those who do. We just had our first baby on Christmas eve and now we get it. We totally get what parents all over the world know about having a baby and raising children.
The iPod is a bit like that too.
Hard to explain to those who think they don't need one or would never use one (reminds me of trying to get my mother to buy a telephone answering machine in the 80's), and completely unnecessary to explain to those who already know. We just kind of pass each other and do that chin up head bob to acknowledge each other. Seems to say, "yeah, I love mine too."
Anyway, if you're thinking of getting an iPod, just know that one day you will. One day we all will listen to music this way. It's just a matter of time.
Oh, and there are no diapers to change.
Enjoy!
Nica & Mick Guinn
Digital camera Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought a 10 gig ipod for my daughter and then bought the 40 gig for myself. Now three other people in my family have also switched to ipods (both mac and pc users). We all love them. They are also great to use as external firewire hard drives; mine helps me back up my computer. No cons.Digital camera Review: Awesome - buy it
Summary: 5 Stars
What I like best about Amazon reviews is that, unlike Consumer Reports or other technical reviewers, they come from people who own the product and use it every day. Hence a disclaimer - I got my iPod a week ago.That being said - it is awesome. My iPod is connected to my PowerBook, where I have almost 5,000 songs stored in iTunes. All I have to do is put the iPod in the cradle and it automatically syncs. The first time took about 30 minutes or so - after that it hasn't taken more than a minute or so. It's much easier than other MP3 players. (For Christmas last year, I bought my dad a Rio MP3 player. Teaching him how to load songs onto it was a huge pain.)
The sound quality is as good as it gets for an MP3. I bring my iPod everywhere and am listening to songs I forgot I have. It's also forced me to go through my music library and make sure everything is labeled properly (if it's not, it's going to be hard to find on an iPod, as it doesn't have a search function).
The games it comes with are mindless timewasters, which is what they were intended to be. The music quiz is pretty cool though. The address book and calendar functions are useful, although a bit of a pain to update if you don't use Mac's Address Book and iCal, as you can't use iSync.
The only complaints I have are minor:
-When attached to the remote control, the earphone cord is too long. While it can be tucked in a pocket if you are wearing normal clothes, it's a pain when you go to the gym or for a run.
-There's a slight pause between songs, which is annoying when listening to a complete concert.
-Like many newer cars, mine doesn't have a tape deck. Hence, the only way to play my iPod through the car stereo is through an FM transmitter - most of which have lousy reputations.
-The functionality of the calendar and address book could be improved, although I'm sure that will come in time and iPods will be fully functioning PDAs as well.
Digital camera Review: Awesome capability
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm using windows XP with an adaptec fire wire card and the interface is perfect. Like anything computer, this too will require some initial tweaking on the user's part. On the advice of Apple's tech-support, I went through four different fire wire cards before determining on my own that the slow uploads were due to something called "volume leveling" which robbed system resources. De-selecting that in Music Match sped up the process immensely. I loaded my 28-Gig collection in about 3 hours. Because of Apple's clueless tech-support, the gizmo loses a star in my rating.The controls are intuitive, and of course the design is elegantly simple. It's lighter, faster and easier to use than my previous MP3 player, a Nomad Jukebox, which lasted just 2.5 years before the hard drive crapped out.
The included headphones have excellent sound quality -- superior to my expensive noise-cancelling Sony's -- but are uncomfortable and don't block environmental noise. The volume cranks up loud enough to drown out most airplane racket, however. To avoid sore ears, comfortable noise-cancelling earpieces would be a good idea.
I also bought the FM transmitter, car kit and spare battery pack.
Now, I have my own radio station, loaded with 6500 of my favorite songs. It's amazing to think back to the days when I filled half my trunk with CD's on long driving trips, and now I have my entire collection at my fingertips, in the size of a pack of cigarettes. Right now, it's the best thing out there, but the competition is coming. Dell is working on its version and Creative is sure to follow. If Apple really wants to perfect the Ipod, they could include more comfortable, noise-cancelling headphones, a removable battery with longer life and reduce the unit's size even more.
As is, though, this is the device I think all of us music-crazy travelers have been waiting for.
Digital camera Review: BUY ONE NOW
Summary: 5 Stars
the iPod is a revolutionary device. iPod and iTunes are singlehandly going to reshape the music world, so get on the train! It is so awesome to have all the songs you want right at your fingertips. Stop reading this and order it.