Apple - iPod 30GB Review

The portable MP3 player is a pretty basic electronic 'must-have' now days. I mean, who keeps up with cds anymore? That being said, it is important to remember that there are plenty of other MP3 players available out there besides this one. In fact, having owned one for several years now, I probably wouldn't buy an iPod if I knew about other options, as I do now.

Why, you ask? Well the main thing that I find...difficult about the iPod is iTunes. Sure, it may be 'wrong' to 'steal'/share music, but come on! Who doesn't?! Who in the world has the money to finance a healthy musical library when each and every song costs $0.99?! Not I! I'm certain many of my fellow college students would agree that having to pay for music is really really unbearable. Thus, we must consider the alternatives: file sharing! Well, since the iPod only syncs with one computer and/or one iTunes account, file-sharing, even innocent examples of it (like consolidating your own personal cd collection) becomes next to impossible.

For example, I recently loaded up my laptop with many old cds. I had these songs all organized in iTunes, along with several that I got from sources like LimeWire. Well, my hard drive crashed a few weeks later. And I had to go back and put all of the  cds back onto my current computer and start all over again!

Ridiculous!

And the sound quality out of this little thing is in no way good enough to redeem it. Thumbs down, Apple! Thumbs way down!