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Thursday, September 18, 2003

New iPod arrives
So my refurbished 30 GB iPod arrived this morning (a day late thanks to an under-zealous Fed-Ex driver, ahem). You'd never know it wasn't new. Everything in the box (and the box itself) is, in fact, brand new, still shrinkwrapped. And even the iPod is as-new, also in shrinkwrap. Nice. Anyway, Apple is up to its usual tricks with "designed by Apple in California" notes everywhere (but built by laborers in China, incidentally) and overly-lavish packaging, but the device looks solid. It's kind of astonishing what you get in the box: The iPod itself, a new iPod Dock, a new thinner Firewire cable with the Dock-specific end, a Firewire-to-power plug adapter, a pair of ear-bud headphones (still lousy), a wired remote control (making for a lot of very long wires), a 9 pin-to-6 pin Firewire adapter (for those pesky PC notebooks without powered Firewire ports), two sets of foam ear-bud covers (why one isn't on by default is unknown), a carrying case, and a little carrying bag. Oh, and the unnecessary software and a small manual. I've been uploading my music library for the past hour and it's still got a ways to go (its 24.22 GB on the iMac) so I haven't really tested it yet, and docking it will charge the battery anyway. But compared to my previous iPod, the new version is svelte and cute. So far so good.

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