David's World

March 10, 2005

iPod Shuffle - does the job

Got my iPod Shuffle - finally. Here's one way to carry it:

Suprisingly, this Apple gadget is much less exciting than the other Apple products I've bought so far. It has little functionality, but is small, light and very cheap and does one thing very well: play music. Transferring music onto the iPod with my ageging USB 1.0-enabled Powerbook is not quite as slow as I thought (it takes a couple of minutes to fill my 512 Shuffle). The cord, however, is annoyingly long - and if you carry it on the lanyard, as shown in their commercials, you tend to get stuck when walking around. The solution is simple and ugly:

Getting the Shuffle was difficult enough. Apple seems to be getting merchandise to my local Apple shop only after everyone else has delivered, and when I finally ordered it from the UK Apple Store (serviced from Ireland), TNT managed to either deliver it to the wrong person (Hello "Mr. Chopley", thanks for signing for MY package!), or simply nicked it. Whatever. The nice guys from Scotsys finally made the deal.

All in all, the Shuffle works as expected and can be recommended, if you have your PC/Laptop at hand most of the time and need music just while commuting or working out. Then, the Shuffle saves you a lot of money and the extra power adapter etc. when travelling.