I bought one because I wanted to see what all the hype was about it without the hassle of having to sign up to some phone service for twenty-five years at $100 cents a minute.
But my overall impression is:
Disclaimer: I am a Macintosh diehard and have been on the platform since 1984. I despise Windows and will never make a secret of it.
But this little fucker is a challenge. Usually the Mac OS is very intuitive, but with this thing I found myself having to point and shoot a lot more than I bargained for.
It's a toy. Please don't glorify it as a "mobile interactive device" or anything else resembling that. Sure, you can get on the Web. Sure, you can check email. Sure, you can wipe your ass with a Zig-Zag rolling paper. Get my drift?
To check email or surf the Net you will have to be one desperate individual.
The sound quality, once you go through the Byzantine process of actually getting sound on the box, is, as usual, very, very good (but ditch the Apple headphones pronto and get something like those Sonys I had for a while that broke in three months but only because I listened to them for three months).
Bottom line: My MacBook is going to be my mobile device. It does everything the iPod Touch does except better. And I never have to turn it upside down to see a better picture!
We're almost there, the world of the flying cars and George Jetson, but we're NOT THERE YET.
I'm disappointed that you don't like it ... because I bought one last night. Haven't even begun to look at it yet, though.
ReplyDeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not that I don't like it. It's pretty cool. It's just that it doesn't seem to be as intuitive as the old iPods. Like loading music seems to be a bit of a chore . . . but I bought some Sennheiser PX 100 headphones for it (highly recommended) and it freaks me out with its sound quality. But I'm going to download a bunch of games and give it to my son at Christmas.
He'll go nuts!