iPod Shuffle

I’ve just got my iPod Shuffle up and running and it’s great! For a start it’s tiny, about the length of my index finger and a third as thick. It took me ages to rebuild my iTunes library from my ‘normal’ iPod after my external HD crashed last week, but once I had I plugged the iShuffle (as I’m calling it) in, and told it to Autofill at random from my ‘non-clubbing’ playlist. That’s when I noticed the one and only issue – USB is bloody slow when you’re used to Firewire. The first song it chose was George Michael’s Listen Without Prejudice which I haven’t heard in years – it sounds fantastic on the headphones, so that’s scotched the rumours that the supplied headphones weren’t that good. Maybe if you’re an audiophile you will notice flaws, but for the average person they’re more than capable. AU$150 gets you a 512Mb iShuffle which is a bargain as far as I’m concerned. Even Dean (our office PC holdout) got one today ;-)

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