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Apple iPod 20GB 4th Gen. MP3 Player

A musical dream come true, the fourth-generation iPod offers huge capacity, letting you easily slip up to 10,000 songs into your pocket. And enjoy it wherever you go. In the car. On the treadmill. At the office. Around the house.Though ease of use has always been the hallmark of iPod, we believe in constantly moving perfection forward. So iPod now incorporates the same touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel that debuted on iPod mini. Without lifting that trusty thumb of yours from the wheel, you can easily select playlists, scroll through thousands of songs, and start the music playing. Want that song to play from the beginning again? A single click will do the trick.You can put the Apple Click Wheel to use the next time you want to set your music to shuffle. Right there on the main menu ? where it?s very easy to find ? you?ll find a new option ? Shuffle Songs. Everyone?s favorite option for mixing things up, Shuffle Songs randomly plays songs in a selected playlist or your entire music collection. You?ll never guess what?s coming up next, so you?re always surprised by startling juxtapositions ? like a melodic Coldplay song hot on the heels of an aria by Caball?. And you can shuffle your way through a lot of songs now that iPod lets you play your music for up to 12 hours on a single battery charge. Imagine: you could fly from New York to Paris and still have hours of listening time left over as you stroll the Champs Elys?es. While you?re on the move, iPod keeps you aware of its charge level, and when it?s time, iPod?s quick to recharge. Plug it into your computer or a handy wall socket (via the included power adapter), and you can fast-charge iPod in as little as 2 hours.The perfect companion to iPod, iTunes lets you easily build and manage your digital music collection. Since the iTunes Music Store is built right in, you can browse through hundreds of thousands of songs and audiobooks until you find just what you?re looking for. Jazz, Reggae, Pop, Electronica, Hip Hop ? the iTunes Music Store has it all. And it?s open 24/7. All year long. In the US and Europe, too. On both the Mac and Windows PCs. As for all of those CDs you already own, iTunes makes it easy to quickly transfer your favorite songs and albums. Just pop a CD into your Mac or PC, and click the Import button. You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you?d prefer. You can even choose the Apple Lossless encoder. Music encoded with that option offers sound quality indistinguishable from the original CDs at about half the file size of the original. And with FireWire and USB 2.0 support, you can transfer the music from an entire CD to iPod in just 5 seconds or less.

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Apple iPod 20GB 4th Gen. MP3 Player

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Apple iPod 20GB 4th Gen. MP3 Player

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  Reviewed by: microsomen

  07-29-06

  Duration of ownership: 2 Days

  Strengths: Design, controls, size

  Weaknesses:Prone to harddisk defects, battery not replacable by user, not working smoothly under windows xp, freezes often, no user adjustable equalizer

  Overall Evaluation: My ipod lasted for 1 y and 10 month. During this time the machine had to restored at least 5-10 times. Operation with XP and iTunes never worked smoothly, switching to winamp solved the problem partly. It crashed two times completely so that I had to format the drive two times, which is not an easy thing for an unexperienced user. The life time of my ipod ended in a (surprise) harddisk defect. To be fair one has to mention that all harddisk based mp3-player are sensitive products if it comes to the harddisk. I think a flashdrive based player is a saver thing to buy or buy the extended warranty.

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  Reviewed by: SharonHahn

  10-19-05

  Duration of ownership: 8 Months

  Strengths: When you first get it it's great, but...

  Weaknesses:poor battery life, crashes constantly, i have had it for 8 months and it's no longer useable. I have replaced it once, and I'm sick of it.

  Overall Evaluation: Do not buy an ipod, it's a bunch of hype and you can do better with other products, cheaper and with a replaceable battery.I have 2, the other's battery life is down to 1 hours. I have replaced it also for crashing- and I mean totally fried hard drive. That's 2 ipod's- same problem, replaced, and now the new one's are doing the same things.

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  Reviewed by: LFNbabe

  10-17-05

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: Intuitive interface, sleek design, variety of accessories

  Weaknesses:a battery you can't replace yourself, a poor battery indicator, prone to crashes, freezes and irritating problems.

  Overall Evaluation: I love my ipod, oh well my replacement ipod. My original baby died two weeks ago without warning and was replaced within a week by Apple. The last thing it did was show a battery symbol with a ! and then nothing. It wouldn't charge or connec to a computer. I have purchased Applecare and would highly recommended factoring this added cost into the intial purchase price, so you are covered for two years in the event of malfunction (which seems to be a frequent occurance with many users). All in all, the ipod is a great little product but it is not without its problems.

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  Reviewed by: gravityhr

  09-21-05

  Duration of ownership: 8 Months

  Strengths: Looks good, backlighting a nice touch. Great interface.

  Weaknesses:Scratches extremely easily. COMPLETELY DIED AFTER 8 MONTHS.

  Overall Evaluation: I barely used this item, and began using it at work to listen to music through computer speakers. I brought it in the next week, and it would not turn on or charge. I don't normally write reviews like this, but my experience was so terrible with something so seemingly revered, I figured I'd add some insight. Unfortunately, I've had other friends with this same problem. I wonder if there will be a class action suit for this Generation as well.I'm done with Ipods, I may post an update with what I end up replacing it with in the coming weeks.

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  Reviewed by: ajanifer

  07-14-05

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Plenty of space, excellent sound quality, cute click wheel.

  Weaknesses:Crashes, Battery life is not 12 hours, Scratches, headphones, very slow loading at times.

  Overall Evaluation: After having the iPod for 6 months I have extremely mixed feelings on the product. Yea, like many of the other reviewers, I LOVED it when I first got it. It was easy to load CDs and mp3s onto it and even store files from my computer. But now that the "newness" has worn off I can give a clearer review. Recently my iPod has begun to crash randomly and not play songs all of the way through. The battery life for me has decreased to about 5 hours. The crashes have a simple remedy by restoring it to factory settings with iPod restore. BUT BEWARE everything is erased when you do this, files, contacts, calendar and music. The music isn't such a big deal losing since everything I have is also kept on my computer, but if I want to store files on it and it decides to crash, I end up with nothing. BE WARNED if you want to use it as a drive only store things on it of which you, for whatever reason, need two copies. Also when you are listening to music on your iPod, you use the playlists from iTunes or you can just scroll through your library or create an "On-the-go" playlist (such a misnomer--it takes TIME to make these). There is nothing wrong with that, but if you have at least 2,000 songs, it's annoying to scroll through all of them to find one, then scroll through it again 3 min later to find another (this method also doubles the loading time between songs). Playlists you create at home are best. TAKE NOTE: In order to replace the battery you have to spend $100. The headphones that come with the iPod are not only of low quality, but if you live in a large city they mark you as a target for mugging. Your best bet in the long term is to buy an iPod mini and selectivly load playlists onto it. I'll probably max out at about 5,000 songs leaving half of the drive empty and wasting space and money. 20 GB is too much space just for music, and the iPod isn't too useful for much else. But if you think you can fill an iPod with 20 GB AND you don't mind using a click wheel to scroll through it all ONE SONG/ALBUM/ARTIST at a time, go ahead, it does the job.

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