Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13094 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: New40gbipod
• Released on: 2004-07-21
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .39 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer\'s Description
Incorporating the fabulous Apple Click Wheel that was first introduced on iPod mini and offering up to 12 hours of battery life, the iPod continues to define the perfect digital music player for Mac and Windows. Weighing in at just 176 g (6.2 ounces) and getting slightly thinner with each new generation, this fourth-generation iPod offers huge capacity, letting you easily slip up to 10,000 (1) songs into your pocket.

In fact, the new fourth-generation iPod includes features that make it even easier to access -- and have fun with -- your music. Take, for example, the Apple Click Wheel. With the Click Wheel, you can select playlists, scroll through a long list of albums or artists and choose just the song you want to hear without ever lifting your thumb from the wheel. Feel like mixing things up? Now you can choose "Shuffle Songs" right from the main iPod menu. We think you\'ll also enjoy iPod\'s long battery life -- up to 12 hours. And with the 25 minutes of skip protection iPod provides, you can jump for joy and the music will keep playing.

Music and More
But, guess what -- iPod lets you do more than listen to music. Much more. iPod provides you with up to 40 GB of storage. True, you\'re likely to use a good portion of that storage capacity for your music and audio books, but you\'re bound to have a little space left over. You can use the FireWire or USB 2.0 cable that comes with iPod to connect the iPod to your computer and copy files. Word documents. Keynote presentations. Excel spreadsheets. Photoshop files. You name it.

A Music Store at Your Fingertips
The perfect companion to iPod, iTunes lets you easily build and manage your digital music collection. Since the iTunes Music Store is built right in, you can browse through hundreds of thousands of songs and audiobooks until you find just what you\'re looking for. Jazz, Reggae, Pop, Electronica, Hip Hop - the iTunes Music Store has it all. And it\'s open 24/7. All year long. In the US, UK, France and Germany. On both the Mac and Windows PCs.

As for all of those CDs you already own, iTunes makes it easy to quickly transfer your favourite songs and albums. Just pop a CD into your Mac or PC, and click the Import button. You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you\'d prefer. You can even choose the new Apple Lossless encoder. Music encoded with that option offers sound quality indistinguishable from the original CDs at about half the file size of the original. And with FireWire and USB 2.0 support, you can transfer the music from an entire CD to iPod in just 5 seconds or less.

1. Based on using 128Kbps AAC format.
2. Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.

Manufacturer\'s Description
The super-slim iPod defines what a digital music player should be. It\'s lighter than two CDs, can hold up to 10,000 songs, thousands of digital photos and works as a personal voice recorder. Now you can sync with iTunes for Mac and Windows at blazing speeds, and take your entire music collection with you wherever you go.

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Customer Reviews

\'HIT\' & Ultimately MISS
Bought it brand new Oct 2004.
It survived 10 months in South America.
Started getting temperamental on return so took it into Apple shop whilst it was just inside warranty.
It had stopped responding entirely so the Apple guy said \'sticky\' hard drives were common and then smashed it down on the counter - charge end. This actually worked!

I have had more temperamental times with it since then, and sometimes it just needs a good whack on the floor and other times I have to wait for the battery to run out and recharge it before it will operate \'normally\' again.

Over the last 6 months or so the battery life has noticeably got worse so that it sometimes only works for an hour or so, and other times it doesn\'t seem to charge unless I turn it on manually.
I\'m going to buy a new battery for about GBP10 and see if it will give me a bit more time, otherwise it\'s a new one for me and I\'ll just keep this as a spare for the speakers at home.

Despite all of the above I would buy an Apple iPod again, just not this model!
What\'s the choice?
The competition look crap to me, iPods are great when they\'re working, iTunes is the most widely used for free podcasts, borrowing other people\'s chargers is easier as most people have one, and basically it is one of the coolest brands in the world.

The new 30GB would be more than adequate considering I haven\'t used more than 12GB of this one, and crucially, from what it seems the new ones are more reliable with longer battery life. The film facility on a colour screen looks ace if you travel a lot, so the extra memory space will come in useful there. They are also less bulky/heavy now.
 

Not worth your money
Like a couple of the other posters have said - these things are temperamental. Mine died after 8 months, and I did get a replacement.

BUT what they replaced it with is some other busted ipod that they\'ve "repaired". And now this is starting to act up. I have 3 months left on my warranty, and I\'ll be taking it back for another replacement.

If your brand new iPod dies after a week, they might replace it with a year old piece of junk they have lying around the workshop.

Avoid this manufacturer.

Very temperamental
I\'ve had my 40GB ipod for nearly a year now and i\'ve had to order a replacement 4 times. Although easy-to-use and great when it\'s working, it\'s so temperamental - one minute it is working fine, next it is skipping through all my songs refusing to play any of them, and finally turning itself off and refusing to turn on again. My warranty is about to run out, and again the ipod is screwed up. I will not be buying a new warranty or ordering another free replacement - its more trouble than it\'s worth. I\'ll be looking for an alternative mp3 player.