The iPod arrived yesterday.<\/p>\n
First, a big thumbs-down to buy.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I ordered the iPod last Tuesday – “In stock – delivery in 3 to 5 days”.\u00a0 They claimed to have shipped it on Tuesday – “order by 4pm EDT for same day shipping”.\u00a0 However, all they apparently did was send the package info electronically to Fedex Ground.\u00a0 Fedex didn’t see the package until Thursday.\u00a0 They delivered in Monday, 6 days from ordering (not 3-5 as advertised).\u00a0 On top of that, the packing list in the box was for some poor person in Parma, OH for a rack-mount Ethernet router.\u00a0 I hope that item made it successfully.<\/p>\n The box that it comes in is tiny – and so is the iPod itself.\u00a0 It’s about the size of a cassette tape case (or, if you’re really young a cassette case is about the size of an iPod).\u00a0 It seems to have come about 80% charged – I had to plug it in for about an hour to fully charge it.<\/p>\n Installing the software was tricky.\u00a0 I had to load the CD, wait for it to activate, and then plug in the iPod through the USB cable.\u00a0 It chose to format my iPod (since I’m a Windows user rather than Mac).\u00a0 After the reboot, the computer didn’t see the iPod for a while and I had to pull the USB cord (after waiting 15 minutes with “Do Not Disconnect” on the screen) and re-enter it.\u00a0 It then let me into the serial number screen.\u00a0 That accomplished, the PC rebooted and iTunes came up.<\/p>\n I’d already loaded music into iTunes, so it started sync’ing the approximately 350 MP3 files.\u00a0 That took quite a while (at least 45 minutes).\u00a0 While I was waiting, I ripped a few more CD’s, though that ran at 1\/2 speed (about 3x).<\/p>\n So far, so good.\u00a0 I’ve used it at work, and the sound quality is very good.\u00a0 I used the Apple earbuds for a while, but found them to be uncomfortable after an hour or so.\u00a0 I plugged in the cheapie headphones that I keep at work, and had to crank up the iPod’s volume (though not all the way up – full volume is still too loud).\u00a0 These headphones play treble stronger than the Apple buds, but I was able to turn on Bass Booster on the iPod and it seems to help. My music selection is decidedly skewed by the small number of CD’s ripped thus far – and the fact that they were all sorted together on my shelf.\u00a0 I suspect that Shuffle will produce more random play once I’ve got more CD’s loaded.<\/p>\n I definately need some accessories: I also want to download and play with iArt to put album cover art on the Photo iPod.
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\nThe User interface is pretty straightforward, once you figure out that you have to drag your finger around the dial to get the menus to move.\u00a0 I haven’t had any trouble finding the menu options that I want.\u00a0 The games are a little hard to play, but that’s not why I bought it.<\/p>\n
\nCar Cassette Adapter
\nCar Charger
\nBetter headphones<\/p>\n