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Review: I bought one of these Apple iPod Photo 30GB MP3 players when over in the USA as an upgrade from my Creative Muvo, a bit hesitant looking at the price tag (I'd originally gone into the Apple store to buy a mini), but I thought 'what the heck' and bought one. So here's my thoughts: The good:
--------- Extremely easy to set up (in my opinion) with my PC and get my music onto the iPod. You might be told that the iPod doesn't work with USB 1.x - it does, although the transfer rate is slow. People also say that it doesn't charge through USB 1.x but I've had no problems so far. The click-wheel is easy to use, and combining this with playlists you can select your favourite songs. You also have a shuffle mode that will play your songs in random order. There's also a couple of games on there, but they eat up battery especially if used with the backlight. Sound output is great, although the headphones leave something to be desired, and bass is somewhat lacking (recommended headphones are the Sony MDR-EX71SLW). You can also use it as an external 30Gb hard drive - which I've done on numerous occasions. The bad:
-------- The CD-ripping tool doesn't always produce good results, I find myself having to resort to other methods for some tunes to get good output. A couple of times it looks like all the songs have disappeared from the iPod! This is annoying but is fixed by resetting it. You can import photos into the iPod, but iTunes doesn't have much in the way of assitance like it does with music. When scrolling through photos the iPod tends to freeze up for a few seconds before continuing. The ugly:
--------- It scratches VERY easily - get a cover as soon as you can unless you want it to look old really quickly! Conclusion: Although appearing to be expensive, if you want alot of music to travel around with you, it's definitely worth buying. | 
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