Mmmm… iPod…
Well, I have joined the ranks of the iPod owners. The most recent price reduction put it in a range that I was willing to pay. So after checking a few places to see who had one in stock, I ventured down to BestBuy to pick me up the 20gig 4g model.
I’m not sure how I feel about going to the dark side (Apple that is… really… one mouse button? come on!), as it felt a little weird looking down at the apple logoed cable sticking out of my box. But my hatred of the OS aside, you can’t deny that the iPod is a good product, and will hopefully bring me many hours of enjoyment.
So I’ll try and post every now and then how things are going with my new Apple relationship…. maybe that will get me to post more then once a month.
I’ve now had it for just over a day. First weird thing I noticed while clicking (scrolling) around the menus was the capacity before I did anything with it was 18.6 Gigs. What the heck is on there that takes 1.4 G of space? I can understand a little descrepency in size for whatever OS is on there, and a little for other misc stuff… but 1.4 gigs? Come on… Ok, I’m leaving the above rant just for history sake, but decided to go Google ipod capacity 18.6 while typing this up and found that it kind of was what I thought above… that whole “misc stuff” stuff. Binary verses decimal… yadda yadda yadda… blah blah blah… still sucks.
Anyway… am in the middle of re-ripping all my CD’s to have them at a higher quality (192 instead of 128 or whatever I had before), and to start over in a new folder with all spiffy legal music. Ripping CD’s is quite easy with iTunes… but still boring as heck.
Enough blabbering for now… back to ripping… weeeeeee.
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