The day of the iPod.
Saturday 9th Oct. Time to pick up the iPod. Also
incidentally the day of the Australian Federal Election. Unfortunately voters
showed the colour of their fleeces and voted the incumbents back in. Worse yet,
for the first time in ages the senate also looks like it'll have a majority of
the same party. This is scary because the senate usually can be relied on to
provide a sanity check on hair-brained policies the house of reps might try to
push through.
Anyway, nothing, not even
that, was going to ruin this
day.
[...]
So we head 20km south and pick up a fun looking,
brightly coloured box labelled iPod
40GB.I'd warned the lovely Reg that
I'd probably want to do the Religious Box Opening thing. She didn't pay me out
(Aust. colloq. make fun of) a bit. She's the
coolest.
Enjoy. Says it all doesn't
it?Just like the PowerBook, the iPod's
packaging is elegant, cool, typically Apple. Make no mistake, this is no
brown-box Dell!
And there it is. Fractionally
bigger than a deck of cards.
Okay so it's not quite the
Bento-like layout of the PowerBook packaging, but hey it's got the goods. Oh and
by the way, this is no brown-box
Dell.
Me happy.
:-)
Awww, baby's first charge...
That charge graphic is great, you can see it across the room. Incidentally, the
iPod is sitting atop a NAD 302 amp (oldie but a goodie) in the space where Sony
MiniDisk and dual cassette units once lived. Poetic
eh?
Initial charge complete, and I
introduce the iPod, now named Cortana (if you know Halo, you'll pick it), to my
PowerBook and iTunes collection. Instantly they're best buddies, and the iPod
spends a short while downloading the collection. The pic above is the first
track I played (I'd spent some time trying to think of
the
track to christen it with): I Love You Goodbye by Thomas
Dolby.Next: first impressions, the
Griffin Technologies iTrip, and something, er, different.
Posted: Monday - October 11, 2004 at 09:31 pm