The iPod is quite nice. A few of us have them at work, 2 old-style and 1-new-style. The new-style looks terrible, but Apple have not provided a software update for the old-style to allow them to match the new-style software. Irritating.
It looks as though Apple have cheapened the process for making the new style iPods and it shows. The buttons look pretty tacky. [and replying below to FM things...] On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Lee Larson wrote: > On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > > > Thus far my search yielded a FM adaptor for $ 29.95 - Tunecast FM > > transmitter for iPod. Found it on the Applestore website under > > accessories. > > Before you get that one, check out the iTrip. I spent a bit of time > reading reviews of all the FM adaptors, and bought the iTrip at the > Apple store in Cincinnati. It has three advantages: > > (1) It needs no batteries. Nice > (2) It can be tuned to any frequency on the FM dial just by playing > little files stored on the iPod. Most of the others have only a few > possible frequencies, or are tuned with a knob that can be easily > bumped. Essential. I have an 'iRock' and it's i$#%#. Because it's limited to public bands, we find that for a large part of our trip it gets drowned out by local illegal(?) radio stations and/or university radio. On a trip down to Mammooth Caves, we got to listen to someone's daughter playing her favourite tunes before her mother came back to put on some classic oldies. > (3) It's designed for the iPod and elegantly sits right on top of it. Not bad. The iRock just dangles off. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
