Jonathan
09-24-2007, 09:55 AM
So friday was payday and I wanted to treat myself to something.
I got an iPod Video.
http://www.ipresents.co.uk/i/stuff/ipod-video.jpg
I originally hadn't planned on purchasing it as circuit City. I wanted to go to Best Buy, because I saw that they were selling an 80Gig (online at least) for around $250.00. Well on Saturday, I went to the Marple Cross Roads shopping center to see Resident Evil: Extinction. It was a good movie. Well, while I was walking toward the front of the shopping center (to return home), I remembered that there was a circuit city in the same shopping center.
I go inside... now a lot of stores I know like the back of my hand, but Circuity City is a strange land to me... not exactly sure why. So I was wondering around before a sales associate asked me I needed help. I told her about the iPod she wanted. She then took me to the iPod & MP3 section. How come the iPod is specifically named? That's not fair.. what about the sansa. They should call it the Sansa & MP3 section. But anyway, I digress
She went to the storeroom and brought back what she said was the last of the video iPods. I asked her about it, maximum capacity (30 GB), price ($199.99), et cetera. I rang it up, and walked out.
So, excited to see my iPod I just bought, I walked out of CC and stepped aside. I tried peeling off the plastic wrap, but to no avail. So I took my office key out of my pocket and ripped the wrapping off. I then did the whole shizzle with unfolding the flaps and stuff. Mhmm. There it is, I'm getting close. I can feel it. I open the case, like a book. And boom, my iPod falls out.
You see. The iPod was just sitting loosely in a small little nook. and the angle i was holding it at was a very slight one, but it was still large enough for the iPod that i have not even touched yet to fall face forward onto the hard concrete beneath me.
I curse. I think I earned the right to curse in this instant. I mean I just paid $212 for a device and drop it right away. I quickly inspect it and find no dinks, scratches, dents, et cetera.
I take it home, install crappy iTunes, blah blah blah. I plug it into the most right USB port on my laptop. Oh cool, iPod assistant has popped up. It says it wants me to name my iPod. Cool. I did so.. butttttt... I get an error. Something about delayed write error. I couldn't name it, sync it, I couldn't do anything to my iPod. I saw a guide on the intarwebz (google <3) to enable disk data caching and reboot my computer. It doesn't work. Dammit.
So i try 15 things... i spend hours trying to get this iPod to work. What the hell is wrong with it? So I go and IM my friend Andrew, an Apple Guru. He almost instantly (I swear, he's good) links me to an Apple page. This Apple help page describes to me the three out of the five errors I have received. The solutions box covered different tasks. All of them would be very time consuming (reinstall USB drivers, etc). Then the last one, try an other USB port. What the hell? Why did I, a computer specialist, not think of this? Holy crap.
I switched to the left USB port, and boom it works. Perfectly. Was all that trouble worth it? Probably. I can play videos (obvi). I've already watched an episode of Diggnation. The picture quality is not too bad at all. Infact, I could not ask for more.
Good product Apple. Just try to explain Windows' errors better on your own program.
I got an iPod Video.
http://www.ipresents.co.uk/i/stuff/ipod-video.jpg
I originally hadn't planned on purchasing it as circuit City. I wanted to go to Best Buy, because I saw that they were selling an 80Gig (online at least) for around $250.00. Well on Saturday, I went to the Marple Cross Roads shopping center to see Resident Evil: Extinction. It was a good movie. Well, while I was walking toward the front of the shopping center (to return home), I remembered that there was a circuit city in the same shopping center.
I go inside... now a lot of stores I know like the back of my hand, but Circuity City is a strange land to me... not exactly sure why. So I was wondering around before a sales associate asked me I needed help. I told her about the iPod she wanted. She then took me to the iPod & MP3 section. How come the iPod is specifically named? That's not fair.. what about the sansa. They should call it the Sansa & MP3 section. But anyway, I digress
She went to the storeroom and brought back what she said was the last of the video iPods. I asked her about it, maximum capacity (30 GB), price ($199.99), et cetera. I rang it up, and walked out.
So, excited to see my iPod I just bought, I walked out of CC and stepped aside. I tried peeling off the plastic wrap, but to no avail. So I took my office key out of my pocket and ripped the wrapping off. I then did the whole shizzle with unfolding the flaps and stuff. Mhmm. There it is, I'm getting close. I can feel it. I open the case, like a book. And boom, my iPod falls out.
You see. The iPod was just sitting loosely in a small little nook. and the angle i was holding it at was a very slight one, but it was still large enough for the iPod that i have not even touched yet to fall face forward onto the hard concrete beneath me.
I curse. I think I earned the right to curse in this instant. I mean I just paid $212 for a device and drop it right away. I quickly inspect it and find no dinks, scratches, dents, et cetera.
I take it home, install crappy iTunes, blah blah blah. I plug it into the most right USB port on my laptop. Oh cool, iPod assistant has popped up. It says it wants me to name my iPod. Cool. I did so.. butttttt... I get an error. Something about delayed write error. I couldn't name it, sync it, I couldn't do anything to my iPod. I saw a guide on the intarwebz (google <3) to enable disk data caching and reboot my computer. It doesn't work. Dammit.
So i try 15 things... i spend hours trying to get this iPod to work. What the hell is wrong with it? So I go and IM my friend Andrew, an Apple Guru. He almost instantly (I swear, he's good) links me to an Apple page. This Apple help page describes to me the three out of the five errors I have received. The solutions box covered different tasks. All of them would be very time consuming (reinstall USB drivers, etc). Then the last one, try an other USB port. What the hell? Why did I, a computer specialist, not think of this? Holy crap.
I switched to the left USB port, and boom it works. Perfectly. Was all that trouble worth it? Probably. I can play videos (obvi). I've already watched an episode of Diggnation. The picture quality is not too bad at all. Infact, I could not ask for more.
Good product Apple. Just try to explain Windows' errors better on your own program.