Apple iPod 40 GB White M9245LL/A (3rd Generation) | 
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| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
Buy Used: $150.00
Used (2) from $150.00
Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 17449
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 6.1 x 6.1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: M9245LL/A
Model: M9245LL/A
UPC: 718908519554
EAN: 0718908520208
ASIN: B0000CEOYI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 40 GB model holds up to 10,000 songs; supports MP3, AAC, WAV, MP3 VBR, Audible (6), and AIFF formats | | • | Mac and Windows compatible; FireWire and USB 2.0 interface for fastest digital transfer available | | • | Included docking station makes charging and synching easy | | • | More than 8 hour battery life on a 3 hour charge (1-hour fast charge to 80% capacity) | | • | Features redesigned and backlit navigation; includes dock, wired remote control, earbud headphones, carrying case, and AC adapter |
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Product Description
iPod includes a 10, 15, 20, 30 or 40GB hard drive, a dock connector, an 8-hour rechargeable battery, headphone jack, 2-inch backlit LCD and a touch-sensitive wheel and backlit touch-sensitive buttons. Also standard are a dock connector-to-FireWire cable, earbud-style headphones, 6-pin-to-4-pin FireWire adapter, AC Adapter, and CD with iTunes for Mac OS X and iTunes for Windows. iPod supports any Mac with built-in FireWire and Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later, or any PC with built-in FireWire or USB 2.0 or a Windows-certified FireWire or USB 2.0 card and Windows XP Home or Professional or 2000.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 151 more reviews...
 Bad News April 10, 2007
Trying to return non working IPOD & ValueSource are being herks!
Frank
 See the light? December 12, 2006
The iPod is well designed and very well made and this is where the good stuff about it ends. I find it one of the most anti-intuitive devices I have ever used, with software that must have been engineered by only the most crass of merchants. Flexibility is not the ipod, and it is unlike the Mac in every way. Its clear after having used one for a few years that Fashion over Function is the secret to its success.
The question is, who will I sell mine to?
 Great item!!!!!! October 28, 2006
I got this item used and it broke in about a week. I sent it to a repair service who charged me almost $300 to replace the hard drive and battery. Not a good start, and I went into ownership with a bad first impression. However, this is a great product. I have nearly half my CD collection downloaded and still have plenty of room for the rest of mine and any of my friends I want. The sound quality is great, the navigation is easy and the design is ingenious. This is something I never knew I wanted but I couldn't live without now. Of course one day I'll upgrade to a newer version, but as long as this one is working well I'll keep using and enjoying it.
A Great Product at the Time October 10, 2006
I got the 40GB 3rd Generation iPod for Christmas a few months after it came on the market. I am an avid music fan, so I honestly do have in upwards of 40GB of music that I listen to on a regular basis. The iPod was $500 dollars when I got it, which is extremely pricy in my opinion. However, it did come with a dock, power adapter, and belt-clip holder. I used this mainly at college when walking between classes, and it was great for that application.
PROS:
I don't care what some of these people are saying, this thing is durable. I've dropped this thing many times, including drops from at least 4-5' up in the air onto concrete, and other than the aesthetics being diminished, the hard-drive has continued to work flawlessly.
The sound is great, I've hooked this up through an iTrip to the radio, with RCA jacks to my stereo, etc, and the sound is always surprising to people that don't realize its an iPod.
The user interface is EXTREMELY easy, which is one of the main reasons I got it. I wanted something that I could navigate through on the fly extremely quickly.
CONS:
Ever since I got this thing certain songs will not transfer over 100% from my computer to the iPod. It changes everytime I reformat the iPod, which leads me to believe there are just some bad sectors on the hard-drive (which is bound to happen over time).
The buttons being heat-sensitive are a pain (probably why they changed them for future generation iPods). When its cold outside you have to try and warm the iPod before any buttons will work, which can sometimes be very inconvienent. Also, they won't work if you're wearing gloves since not enough body heat will activate the buttons.
The metal and plastic are WAY to easily scratched. I used the belt-buckle holder for at a year, and would just keep it in my back jeans pocket. The holder did more scratching to the finish than the denim jeans did!
The headphone jack is pretty loose after all the usage it has gone though. This is a big problem for most portable electronics, so I guess I can't fault apple for it too....but I will.
The battery is pretty crappy if you're looking to use this thing for more than a few hours, which is obviously why apple had that big lawsuit and offered to replace batteries if you could prove that yours was bad. I didn't hear about the replacement plan till too late, but I typically have it out of the dock for only an hour of listening at a time. The charge diminishes faster than it should if it isn't plugged into the dock on a regular basis. After only 2 days or so, the battery is completely dead, even if you didn't use it.
Now that I'm working in the "real world", I use my iPod plugged in via the dock all day, so batteries really aren't an issue.
In the end, I think this is a great product that is giving me 3+ years of enjoyment. If I could do it again, I would have waited for the 4th Generation iPods to come out, but who knows if I could have waited that long.
I figure this thing will keep working for years to come, and for every year it does, it makes that $500 price tag look less and less. I have many friends with many different types of cheap mp3 players, and most of them are lucky if they last over a year. Apple prides themselves on quality, and this is a quality product.
Unlucky, Perhaps September 2, 2006
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Since they first came out in 2001, I've bought 3 hard-drive-based iPods. Each performed well, for its day, in sound quality and ease of use. All three, however, failed mechanically just slightly beyond the warranty period. In all, I have sunk over $1,000 into iPods, with nothing left to show for it today. A single buyer's experience is a small sample, of course, and perhaps I was just unlucky. In any event, I decided to cut my losses and bought a hard-drive-based mp3 player of different make. Thus far, after 18 months, the replacement brand has performed flawlessly.
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