iPod!
I purchased an iPod yesterday from Best Buy. A "clearance" model with touch-sensitive scroll wheel, it was a 10GB model for $299. That's the same price as the new model but includes the belt clip and earphone/remote combo. I took some time last night to get my iPod set with my current music selection and experimented with some new AAC tracks from the iTunes music store. Here's some details:
The packaging is exquisite. My PC-owning co-workers remarked that it seemed appropriate for the level of equipment (expensive toy-first class packaging). The user experience was great from the first moment I opened the box: the side that is marked iPod actually contained the iPod unit. It didn't have to, it just did. Elegant.
The ease of use is well documented, so I'll skip it here. I let it charge for about 4 hours, then plugged it into my TiBook. It immediately launched iTunes and update it's firmware to 1.2.6 automatically. In the meantime, Software Update allowed me to download 1.3 and, after the iPod's requisite reboots, I applied it and was off and running. Did I mention it also copied my music collection? It's about 3GB of music, mostly MP3, and it copied in about 15 minutes. Nice.
Next, I set iSync to work with the iPod. Wait, I didn't do that, the Mac did! I fired up iSync and it had already realized I had an iPod so it was set to go. A (long) iSync later and my calendar, contacts and now AAC content was on the iPod.
Finally, a name. When I first setup the iPod, it requested a name. My machine is "getz". I named the iPod "gilberto". It seemed appropriate.
A special thank you to my wife of seven years, Tammy. Without her, my dreams would stay just that--dreams.
-srk@mac.com-
9:20:13 AM 
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