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Sunday May 04, 2003

Snookered at the Apple Store

They got me tonight... those bastards. I walked in and handed over MiniMe. They're sending him off and will call me in a few days to tell me if the damage is covered by my AppleCare Warranty. It damn well better be ;-) If any of you have ever been to the Apple stores, and had them do anything, you'll know it takes forever for them to complete the paperwork. The last time, I went in to get a new powercord, and it took them 20 minutes to type everything in. I have a sneaky suspicion that they're doing this all on a webapp that is slow like molasses.

So while waiting for them to complete the paperwork, I went to buy an iPod. I wanted the cheapest one - $299 for 10 Gigs. 2500 songs is plenty when I only have around 700. But the salesman sneakingly let me know that the $399 model came with over $150 in accessories (Wired remote, Carrying case w/ belt clip, New iPod Dock). I knew the dock was good from reading James's new iPod experience. So I asked, "How much is the dock?" The swindler told me, "60 or 70 bucks, something like that." I fell for it, and now I'm the proud (and poor with a pissed off wife) owner of the 15 GB (3700 song) iPod. I'll be stuffing this sucker in my pocket and riding to work as long as I'm in Colorado this summer - shouldn't take me long to scratch it up real nice.

First impression: it sucks - I was stuck trying to do stuff in German for the first couple of minutes. :-) I had to reset it to get back to English. All my downloaded songs have many different names for the same artist, so I have 3 different "Eminem" and 4 different "Greatful Dead" artists. Only 1 Garth Brooks though. From these artists, you can see I like it all - music is one of my favorite things in this world.

I'm guessing I'll get used to my iPod (reminder to self: name it) after a few days/weeks of using it. As most things Apple makes - it takes me a while to fall in love with their toys.

Posted in Mac OS X at May 04 2003, 09:43:52 PM MDT 3 Comments
Comments:

Or you could *gasp* return it. The shock on people's face when you return an Apple product is almost worth the bother.

Posted by Lance on May 05, 2003 at 07:10 AM MDT #

Matt, you are making me want one!! darn I have been resisting the temptation for quite sometime, looks like its finally time to give in :) Hope to read your review on it pretty soon ;)

Posted by Arjun on May 05, 2003 at 11:36 AM MDT #

You can fix the mis-name artist name easily with iTunes. Just select all the tracks with the wrong artist name and then use the get info command. A dialog box will come up which will allow you to change the song attributes accross _all_ the tracks you selected. I corrected a lot of naming errors on my collection this way. You can also edit the artist name in the iTunes list view just by clicking on the artist name and then editing it in place.

Posted by Kurt on May 05, 2003 at 11:56 AM MDT #

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