My First iPod
Oct 22nd, 2007 by Nick
Okay, so my 25th Birthday was on October 12th. For years now I’ve been contemplating getting an MP3 player and never seem to get one for one reason or another. Well, my wonderful wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said either an iPod or a M3 DS Simply. Well…she got me the iPod and I must say I’m happy. Most people that know me will know that I have been a windows fanboy for most of my life. Recently I had to downgrade my laptop from Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows XP Pro, looking back it was more of an upgrade but that’s a whole other post. Anyway, I’ve slowly been getting glimpses of apple and OSX and I must say that I’m slowly coming around. I don’t normally get PC hardware/software and get excited just looking at the packaging but wow, apple get’s it right on, no stupid blister packing or anything stupid like that, a nice simple box, everything laid in perfectly. It’s like opening an amazing present. So I crack open the box and everything is just laid in there so nicely. I’m not quite so impressed with iTunes, it’s kinda sluggish on my laptop and before you say it’s my laptop it’s not, 2 gig’s of ram 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mobile…this laptop flies, damn thing used to run like 3 linux Virtual machines on top of windows.
So I’ve been using it for a little over a week now and I must say that my favorite thing is watching podcasts on this thing. I never got the point of podcasts until now, it’s great, I download a bunch of them, put them on the ipod and then listen to them when I’m running around. I also think the UI is great, it’s simple, there isn’t much to it and it’s just the way I like it, too many other manufacturers try to make MP3 players the end all for everything and they aren’t. Look at the new zune, Microsoft noticed that apple did it right, make the interface simple and users will come.
Anyway, I am not a happy ipod owner, 80 gig’s is enough and while it’s not a touch it is a classic. the touch just didn’t have the storage that I needed and too much pressure if I scratched the screen.
