I Love Apple

[yesterday - 10:00pm]
kind of writing a paper
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So I originally began to write this post on an iPod touch that I was trying out. I don't know why I didn't finish it, might have been because of class, or because of the campus' pretty shitty wifi (or at least it was for me.)

Anyway, for years now, I've been wanting an iPod, not any other brand of music player, just iPod. Of course, I've always put it off for some reason or another - Theres going to be a new one announced in a few months, I don't have the money, Its summer and I'll only use it during school so I'll wait, I have the money -but do I really want to spend it? - Yeah, stuff like that. So, around mid September, I said "Hey, I'm in school, I have a lot of free time between classes, I have money, and my birthday is coming up, I should get one. Not surprisingly, as soon as I start to look up some stuff, the new iPod line is announced. I loved the iPhone and its interface, so naturally, the iPod touch looked amazing to me. Sadly, my old job at Moe's had just ended, so I really was out of money, and I kinda put it off in my head again.

So, last week, at my Father's office, they got a whole load of different players for the new line of Ford vehicles that are fully integrated with mp3 players. I convinced him to let me "test it" for the weekend. I tried setting it up at his office, but I really couldn't since all my stuff is at home on this computer, and for some reason the area hes in doesn't have wifi, only the "presentation suites" upstairs. Why the work area doesn't have wireless internet, I don't know.

The thing handles like a dream. It's light, the screen is beautifully clear, at home the internet was fast, youtube worked awesome, and the songs/album/artist lists are just fun to use because you can throw the stuff around with your finger. The one thing I was always worried about was how the fingerprint smudges would look on the screen after more than 25 seconds of use. With the backlight on you don't even notice a thing (unless for some reason you release an abnormally high amount of oils from your skin, or just ate some sort of pizza). I read probably 5 or 6 of Tucker Max's stories and went on Facebook, and the screen stayed clear as always and I completely forgot about the smudges existing since they're invisible from that view perspective.

All in all, I'm buying one, plain and simple. 16gb though, because even though I only used about 5gb of space on that one, and i don't even listen to 70% of that music since it's not mine, most of my CDs aren't on this hard drive and I plan on having at least a movie or two on it, plus room for extra stuff and photos.

One last note, at the moment, I have in my hands a 30gb Zune. I'll be done with "testing it" tomorrow around 5pm, so I'll give some feedback on how it stacks up to the competition.