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beware ipod

My inital experience with the new 40gb ipod was excellent but the honeymoon is over! The unit has completely died after only several weeks of use. Numerous glitches forced me to constantly "reboot" the unit until it stopped working completely. Battery life never came close to the claimed eight hours, plus you are unable to back-up audio files from the ipod thanks to apple becoming a lackey for the music industry. I really feel like I have been taken to the cleaners on this purchase. I spent the better part of a week loading .wav files onto the unit and to have it completely crash so quickly means that apple obviously has some quality issues. The ipod is based on an off the shelf Toshiba hardrive that retails for a couple of hundred dollars so you are paying apple for the interface and the cute plastic box. I love electronics and have spent a fortune on them over the years but no purchase has been such a huge disappointment. Avoid the temptation to buy what seems like a great unit. Steven Jobs has no clothes.
ntscdan
bright_star_audio
179 posts
 
I recently read in Extreme PC magazine that have been faulty battery issues with ipods .

Best,

Barry
mcfavre4
85 posts
 
Beware anything that is electronic. Sometimes things do just go bad. I have had two 15g iPods for about 6 months now after owning a 10g I sold. Not a single issue and they are best sounding MP3 and formatted player I have used, while also giving me the ability to use uncompressed files. Nothing on the market comes close IMO. I would be upset though if one of them were to just stop working. Sorry to hear about what happened to yours.
rives
953 posts
 
My son and wife have one. My son's has already been replaced by Apple. My wife's continuously locks up and usually just needs to sit away from the charger for a day and then it works again.
ben_campbell
1,164 posts
 
Only a month or so in with my 40GB but I'm a big fan.
Only one GB or so left for new stuff!!

Although it does appear from what I read there seems to be the odd one with catastrophic problems....
r3fico
34 posts
 
I'm sorry to hear about your Ipod, I suspect you may have got a lemon. Why don't you take it to the nearest Apple store and ask for a replacement? Any moving part is subject to failure, in this respect the newer flash type memory disks may be more reliable (Ipod Mini). No one I know with an Ipod has had an issue with the hard disk, though many have complained of the battery dying out (first generation, I beleive issues have been ironed out for the 3rd generation). There was a class action suit filed against Apple last year in regards to the battery problem. Not sure what the resolution was.
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