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User Submitted Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB Silver (2nd Generation) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-08-04 Great unless you change computers We purchased two of these from Amazon based on the reviews. Loading the itunes software, buying tunes from the itunes site and moving stuff off our existing cds to the ipod were a breeze. Everything was great until we wanted to synch to a different laptop. Then we realized that itunes on the new computer couldn't see the contents of the ipod at all! Sure itunes itself could see what we purchased from the site, but all the other stuff we downloaded from our own library was essentially non-existent. There is information on how to move songs from one computer to another using the ipod as a harddrive but you need the old computer and new computer at hand to do that. If I had the old computer to synch with I wouldn't need to synch to the new one now would I? I can't understand why when you have itunes loaded on two computers you still can't move the ipod from one computer to the other and see what songs are loaded on the ipod. These ipods are rated very highly but more than likely from users who have one computer and never change to another computer. I wouldn't buy these again. I'd stick to the MP3/windows devices that work off of standard computer protocals. This Apple stuff is very quirky to work with unless you are 100% apple. They definitely march to their own drummer. Date: 2008-07-30 Exactly what I was looking for I already own an 80GB video Ipod. I bought the shuffle to hold a few hours worth of music and to be extremely light and portable. It does all of that, along with excellent battery life. When I have this strapped on my shirt or pants when I working out, I can barely even tell it is there. I also use it when I am traveling on my motorcycle, I just clip it onto my tank bag and I can even use the controls with my gloves on. I did buy my own pair of headphones though. Date: 2008-07-24 great fun and so smal This little device is amazing - so small and yet it holds hundreds of songs - and so easy to use Date: 2008-07-22 Stupidly overpriced When you consider the Sansa Clip 4GB has twice the storage for the same price, trading the OLED display for an Apple logo makes no sense whatsoever. NOT recommended. Date: 2008-07-18 Itty-bitty I find the iPod Shuffle is perfect for the gym where it clips easily on a shirt - no carrying case required. It's tiny but holds more songs than I've ever needed to put on it at any one time. For people like my friend who keeps his entire music collection on his iPod, the little Shuffle just won't do. But I only change my playlist occasionally, or sometimes listen to an audio book or a podcast, and I can keep everything on the original CDs or my computer and change it as often as I want. Creating playlists and uploading music using the computer interface is quick and easy. It has only 2 modes - either play the tracks straight or shuffle them, and the buttons are easy to use even without looking. A single charge seems to last nearly a month for me - but I'm mainly using it at the gym. The tiny size is nice, but it has it's drawbacks. My kids have an adapter that plugs it into my wife's car, and when it's separated from the headphones it's so small that I've lost it around the house several times. The kids have left theirs in jeans' pockets, and they don't survive a trip through the washing machine. The little earphones produce great quality sound, but they're not particularly long-lived (my first pair blew a speaker after only a couple of months but the iPod store in the mall gave me a new pair for free - otherwise replacements are $30). But overall, I love it. It makes that half-hour on the eliptical go a lot faster. It's amazing to compare it to the Walkman with cassette I had in the early 80s - a huge improvement.
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