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| Posted by: daniel |
9/9/2005 4:00 PM |
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Lookout! Run! Flee! Its the End Times! The Apocalypse Has Come!
Surely the end is nigh, because I actually bought an Apple product today. I stopped by the Apple store today and after being molested by numerous people in fruity t-shirts i was able to lay ownership to the new Apple Nano. I picked up the 2 gig player in Apple White flavor. I originally intended to purchase the black model, however, I was told by the sales/customer molestation unit that the darkened model comes complete with WHITE headphones....hmmm...pass. A few initial impressions. First and foremost the player rocks. its a very fine piece of audio-electronica. Seems to be well made and the display is absolutely beautiful. I dropped some pictures of the childrens on to it and the quality is outstanding given the size of the screen. I was a little put off by the fact that there was no case for the device. or even a simple lanyard. My initial fear that, because of it's size, I may drop the unit and watch it smash into little apple bits is still a resounding voice of concern in the back of me head. And i was also a bit surprised by the fact that despite having been released yesterday, the cd version of Itunes included with the product was already out of date. after the 15 minutes or so following the initial installation of the cd products, I was told that my current version was not so current. so off to download, install and register all over again. moments later...i'm back into Itunes. It took a bit of doing to get my music onto the player, having never used an actual Ipod before. And the included instructions are very limited in scope and description. But I was able to figure it out after much clicking, right clicking and poking around within the Itunes application. Overall it wasnt a bad initial "apple software" experience. I probably wouldnt have read the manual anyway, had it actually included said descriptive instructions.
The sound quality of the headphones is actually pretty decent for being stock. Its been my experience that most "headphones included" usually end up in a box somewhere in the basement. But these have decent sound. They could certainly use a bit more bass, but overall....not too bad.
a decent mp3 player. small - no hard drive - and plenty of storage. Its met all my requirements with flying colors. Apple definitely has this audio thing down to an artform. Too bad the laptops suck. :P | |
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