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6 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
 the scoop on the good, the bad, and the ugly, Apr 30, 2023
Apple Computer's iPod Photo: GOOD.
Getting sucked into an unscrupulous marketing ploy: BAD.
The flood of unwanted email, telemarketing calls, and faxes you'll receive after signing up for an "offer": UGLY!!
18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
sign up if you want junk mail "to the next level", Apr 26, 2023
Don't make the same mistake I did! I signed up for one of those get-iPod-free "offers" that are continually being posted here.
Within one day, I received over 200 spam emails and 15 telemarketing calls. What a pain. I guess there really is something to the saying "you can't get something for nothing".
I hope everybody here will learn from my extremely bad experience and avoid these ridiculous pyramid schemes.
The 60Gb iPod Photo is a great gadget. It's too bad they're being used as bait by unethical people.
13 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
 The truth for prospective buyers, Apr 2, 2023
My wife bought me this for my birthday. I noticed that some of my cds were deteriorating, and wanted to digitize my library. My friends raved about this gizmo so she obliged me. Here is the whole story.
This is a marvelous invention, one actually fortunate consequence of our technology mania outside of the medical field. That being said, it has flaws. To use Apples Lossless Encoder which recreates cd quality sound, you will not get anywhere near 15,000 songs, more like 4-6000 max. Next, ITunes sucks. Pardon my crassness, but you need to have a mirror version of what is on your IPod on your pc for maximum enjoyment, ease of organization, auto-synch, or other benefits extolled by Apple. In short, if you have a huge library and would like to digitize and preserve the master copies in storage, take this into account. Itunes must be a revelation if you have a mini or a shuffle, but if you are condidering an IPod this large, it gets unwieldy. I had to buy a 100 gig external hardrive to send the music too (since I will probably get a new pc soon and don't feel like transferring the songs).
I am sure that any 5 year old or high school student can provide a go around or a better way to use technology, but if you are an audio-nut but not a computer-nut, this gadget is as close to perfect as it gets.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
Great, not Perfect, Mar 19, 2023
"Yeah, its an iPod." Then you get to boast about the 60 GB and that wears thin pretty fast. But you have to admit its a damn good looking player. You've read the millions of reviews so I'll only bore you with my thoughts:
$450 and no case? The dock may have been low on the list of usefulness, but come on Apple... this thing scratches if you look at it hard. So the REAL price of this player is more like $490 after you get the required case.
It takes a day to get used to the controls. My wife was so frustrated she tossed it aside and never looked back. The controls are simplified to the point of complexity. Menu is power on (but not power off, that's Play/Pause) but its also back... You get used to it, but I wouldn't sell it as a feature.
The EQ is worthless. I found that ROCK works best and everything else sounds muffled or distorted. It's also a pain to browse EQ settings for the currently playing song. You have to navigate back a couple of menus then into settings then spin down to EQ. After selecting an EQ setting, you drop back to the settings menu. If you don't like that EQ setting, you have to go back into the EQ menu and start the dance all over. Why cant the EQ settings apply live as I spin down them? The song will end before you have time to try them all...
Everyone loves the touch wheel and so do I until you realize you don't remember the group, you have 7800 songs and the one you are looking for begins with a "Z". After about 15 fast laps around the touch wheel it does accelerate, but I wish there was a faster way...
The battery life for me is pretty much as Apple stated. I am concerned that sometime next year after the warranty expires the battery will go poof and die. Apple hasn't done a good job making people like me feel better about the longevity of an iPod. Still, I did take a chance.
I like the Album art when playing. When I used to play CD's (or god bless - my vinyl), I would always have the cover there with me to look at. Something feels more natural having it displayed.
All in all, if you can convince yourself that a portable music player should cost $450/$490 then this is definitely one of the best ones to get, even with its quirks.
16 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
The truth about iPod "offers", Mar 18, 2023
Don't fall for the "get an iPod for free" scams in the fake "reviews" posted here. It's spammers harvesting email addresses for their ridiculous products.
Think about it for a moment. How can somebody afford to give away $250+ gadgets just for signing up for some trial offers? Answer: they can't!
The San Francisco Chronicle also says these offers are bogus. Search sfgate.com or Google for "David Lazarus Free iPod not really" and you will see what the people running these programs are really doing.
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