Apple iPod 10 GB White M8740LL/A (2nd Generation) OLD MODEL

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• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 2.4 x 4 inches ; 6.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006FDR5
• Item model number: M8740LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #47,391 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 16, 2002

Product Description

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The iPod is not just for Macs anymore. Windows users can now join the iPod revolution, and enjoy several exceptional new iPod features as well. The 10 GB Windows model packs 2,000 songs and a 10-hour battery life into a stunning 6.5-ounce package, and Apple ups the ante with new MusicMatch software; a redesigned, touch-sensitive scroll wheel; red-hot FireWire digital file transfers; a wired remote control; and an overhauled calendar/scheduler.

The iPod’s setup and interface are simple: just plug it into your PC and all your songs and playlists are automatically downloaded into iPod at blazing FireWire speed--typically 15 seconds or less. (FireWire is also known to PC users as i.Link and IEEE 1394.) Don’t forget that the player also doubles as a FireWire drive for applications and other files. This new model also comes with a FireWire port cover to protect the player from dirt and other gunk.

In addition to its 10 GB hard drive, iPod has a 32 MB memory cache. The cache is made of solid-state memory, meaning that it has no moving parts, so it's not affected by movement of the device. Skip protection on the iPod works by continually preloading up to 20 minutes of music into the cache.

The iPod has a large, high-quality LCD (liquid crystal display) for viewing up to six lines of text. And the LCD features an LED (light-emitting diode) backlight for clear visibility in low-light situations--indoors or outdoors. Pocket-size and just 6.5 ounces, it weighs appreciably less than the stack of CDs it can store music from.

Featuring MusicMatch software, the iPod can synchronize with newly added music files and playlists. Simply plug the iPod back into your PC and the changes are automatically updated in seconds. With MusicMatch, you can rip MP3s, create playlists, and burn custom CDs all from one simple interface. And thanks to a cool new partnership with audible.com, you can now download audiobooks to the iPod.

You can also download your calendar and schedule to the iPod from applications like Outlook and Palm Desktop. Plus, the iPod now has a built-in digital clock.

The iPod's rechargeable lithium-polymer battery is charged using the FireWire cable when connected to your PC. You can also recharge the iPod using the included FireWire cable and AC adapter when you're on the go.

The iPod supports MP3 (up to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR (variable bit rate), WAV, and AIFF files, and is firmware upgradeable. To use the iPod with your PC, you'll need a FireWire port and you must be running either Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Home or Professional.

The unit comes with a wired remote control, revamped earbud-style headphones, a FireWire cable, power adapter, and CD-ROM with MusicMatch. It's backed by a 90-day limited warranty.

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Good news for the millions of Windows users who own PCs with built-in FireWire (also known as i.LINK and IEEE1394): In response to insistent demand from PC users, the world's best MP3 player now does Windows. iPod fully integrated with the award-winning PC media player -- MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus. So every song you add or playlist you create will automatically transfer to your iPod.iPod easily slips into a pocket to take with you anywhere. The rechargeable lithium polymer battery offers 10 hours of continuous playtime.Connect iPod to your Windows PC with FireWire and it takes just 10 seconds to download an entire music CD. Once it's loaded, access your music in a snap. A unique touch wheel lets you dial up the artist, album, or playlist with just one finger.A powerful built-in amplifier and high-quality headphones enable iPod to output audio in a wide dynamic range. This allows you to hear heart-thumping bass and crystal-clear highs for a superb listening experience.iPod lets you check your calendar or find a phone number while jamming to music. Or download and listen to best-selling books or daily highlights from the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal , all from Audible.com. Need to take a document or application on the road? Load it on -- iPod doubles as a pocket-size hard drive.

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Customer Reviews

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Apple IPod for Windows: The ultimate mp3 player, October 5, 2002

By	Matthew L Popkin (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews

Reader's Recommendations: Top 4 reasons to buy an ipod
1. Ipod is a ultraportable 10 gb music player that has full compatibility with windows
2. Outstanding service and support from Apple, as well as an award winning music program in musicmatch.
3. Highest quality MP3 player on the market in both sound, visual, ease of use quality. Fast download times.
4. Worth the money: can be used for anything including running, walking, driving, on the airplane..anywhere.. definetely worth 400
Read the rest of my review for a detailed review and description of its unique features

I recently purchased the apple ipod 10gb for windows, the ipod connected to my computer which is a dell, easily with musicmatch jukebox and i have also used a program called Ephpod which works wonders in organizing your contacts, calendar and playlist functions of the ipod, in terms of sound quality, unparalled, ease of use superb, beauty great except that the case can pick up fingerprints pretty readily, but the included case and remote control are awesome and well made, problems, had one but it turned out it was my misunderstanding, apple support is much more helpful, caring and knowledgetic that their counterparts at Dell and Compaq for who i have dealt with pretty readily and often, the firewire part of the action presented me no problems because my laptop has a built in firewire port, but if you need to get a firewire card for your pc, try to get a 6-pin one that lets you charge the ipod while it is connected to your computer, like on the mac version, ... Good Luck with an Ipod its portability, size and interface make it the best mp3/cd/md player option that is available, i have used many different players and this is the best one for athletes or people on the go, running and most sports this is the best option for taking your whole music collection along. The firewire support is great because you can purchase and use a 6pin as well allowing you to charge the ipod as well as transferring music

To answer some questions that have arisen,
The most helpful program when using Ipod for Windows is NOT xplay, it frequently crashes and erases all info on IPod, Ephpod is an easy download at Ephpod.com it has all the functionality of an apple and allows you to customize your ipod with news, calendars, contacts etc.
The apple ipod for windows does support Audible Books, it has the software built into it and ephpod as well as musicmatch support audio book format. Ephpod is still the better option.
If you have any questions email me at...
I have had the ipod for about a month now and it has never failed to produce high quality audio and is extremely portable. Of the new options out there by creative, archos and rio are not as good, they sacrifice something somewhere, wheter it is portability, or skip protection which the ipod has 32 mb of protection.
Good Luck with your IPOD it is definetely worth the money

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best MP3 player in the World., November 5, 2002

By	J. DiTroia "Jonny D" (PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Apple Ipod (5 GB, 10 GB, and 20 GB models) is the best MP3 player out on the market- no doubt about it. But why give only 4 stars out of 5? One reason, and its as simple as this, MONEY! The 10 GB Apple Ipod costs an amazing ... But in any case, if money is no object, then your best bet is w/ an Ipod. The Ipod offers amazing features, which some Mp3 players dont have, and fantastic quality. Basically your paying ... for the awesome quality which this little sliver box has to offer. Heres a list of the good and bad of the Apple Ipod:

Pros:
+Sound Is Amazing- Crisp, Clean
+Its a Jukebox 10 GB (only though about 9.2 gb is useable)
+extras such as the calendar, contacts, and get this a game of PONG!
+Terrific Browsing- Automatically BY Artist, Album, etc.
+Customizable Playlists!
+Good Software (Windows- MusicMatch MAC-iTunes)
And the List goes on and on
+Many Different Equalizer Presets

+Uses FireWire to transfer songs-fasT! (if you own a PC you will need to buy a firewire PCI card if your computer doesn't already have one)

Cons:
-expensive!
-very easily scratched (the second you take out the Ipod I guarantee you that you will scratch it within 2 minutes)
-cannot be dropped! fragile! (this isnt for people who need an MP3 player while doing sports and physical activites)

Beside these few minor problems, the Apple Ipod is just truly remarkable. You will not be disappointed if you buy one - its really a good investment.

46 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars MusicMatch is Definitely a Joke and Other Issues..., October 9, 2002

By	R. Baker "rnbaker" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Trust Me-MusicMatch can ruin one's iPod experience (so many glitches, I will not even try to list them). Get XPlay right away. Don't get my review wrong-I like my iPod and use it daily and probably would not buy any other model, but for how expensive it is, I think they need to change a few other things. Please use Apple's iPod feedback website so things that are wrong with the iPod get changed (go to Apple's website and hit iPod and then hit feedback). Some issues may seem picky but if you have an iPod with 1000s of songs by 1000s of artists and use it all the time, they would greatly improve the iPod experience:

1) Apple needs a separate PC website because PC support online is basically non-existent.

2) No audible.com (audible book service) support for Windows-based users. Additionally, it looks like Apple has an updated Mac iPod Updater (1.2.1 recently came out) but not a corresponding new Windows iPod Updater and the website does not tell you that the update is not compatible with Windows. PC iPod's should have the same support and features as Mac-user iPods and it seems like there could be a divergence.

3) "SOUND CHECK" is a volume stabilizing feature on the iPod but it is not compatible with MusicMatch 7.1's "Volume Leveling" and therefore, effectively not compatible with Windows-based iPods. This is a great feature and it is wrong that it is not currently being supported in Windows.

4) Cannot add "Composer" tag (used on the iPod) through MusicMatch and other music management programs.

5) iPod's Internal Software. I have suggested many of these changes to Apple:

A) Long song, artist, and album names get cut off and some songs have the same name (happens when you have 1000s of songs), which can lead to confusion. There is a screen (I believe browse...albums...all songs) where the songs are not in alphabetical order but in album order but the names of the corresponding albums are not on the screen. Apple should add length (time), album, artist name, genre and track number of a song after the song title when the song title is highlighted for a certain amount of time. I think this could be accomplished by automatic scrolling over to the information when the song is highlighted and the longer the song is highlighted the more information is revealed. This could be especially helpful for songs with the same name, which happens when you have lots of songs. Further, this could alleviate the problem with song titles being too long for the browse screen and this happens a lot with different remixes. Also, there are album titles that are too long for the screen, too (for example, "100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Vol .1)" vs. "100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Vol .2)" vs. "... (Vol .3)" and so on) and scrolling over to reveal the full title and artist would be excellent (and if there is more than one artist for an album, it could say "Various Artists") because right now if an album title is too long (and the same with artist name), there is no way to see the full title on the iPod even in the "Now Playing" screen (it only scrolls to reveal the full song name).

B) Add day of the week to the clock.

C) Songs that have no album title (missing tag) should be put under a "Miscellaneous" or "No Album Title" when browsing "Artists...Albums". Since these songs are not included in the album listings, they will not play if you were to play from the album screen or when shuffling by albums.

D) Apple should add scan or intro that plays the first 10 seconds or so of songs (and you should be able to do this randomly and within artists, composers, genres, albums, and playlists) until you hit a button and then it will play that song and will resume the scan after the song. This is extremely nice when you have thousands of songs on your iPod and don't want to sit there and hunt for the song.

E) Playlists. Currently, you have to download playlists (not only song order but the actual songs so if you already have the songs in the playlist on your iPod, you will have duplicate songs) from your computer. Therefore, you should be able to create playlists on the fly from the files that are already on the iPod. More importantly and at least, I would like to be able to create a queue list (even just one queue list at a time would be fine) so I can choose a song to play and then choose the next song to play and the next and so on and being able to save it as a playlist would be a great bonus.

F) Add .wma file support.

G) The iPod places the group "Lo Fidelity Allstars" in the "F" section (rather than "L") like it does for the titles that begin with "The" and the same happens with titles that start with "De"). This should not happen in English menus.

H) Add support for second artists and song comments tags.

7) FireWire Issues. As a PC user (especially laptop users and 4-pin FireWire card users), you may have to buy a new FireWire card and an AC adapter if you want to supply power to the iPod while connected to your computer because many PC FireWire cards do not supply power to the peripherals. There is not a separate power source on the iPod other than its FireWire port (which is can be connected to the FireWire card OR to the AC Adapter but not both). Downloading songs can be lengthy and battery intensive so the battery may only last for an hour or two while downloading via a non-powered FireWire card and so you will have to recharge before downloading to the iPod again.