I can send you a first gen iPod 2G, but the bottom half of the screen is hosed (hubby found it on the streets of Chicago, what can I say?).  I’ve since upgraded to the NextGen iPod 8G you were lusting after earlier.  It’s wonderful.  Sleek, sexy, lightweight…need I go on?

A few years ago I bought the 4th Gen iPod 40G mentioned above.  I was traveling to Europe a lot.  I put my entire CD collection on it (more than 250 CDs) as well as my Audible books.  Listening to books was great on a trans Atlantic flight.  I also deployed to Bahrain with it and a small set of speakers.  With the wall charger, I used it as a stereo and alarm clock for 4 months.  What other way could I have handily transported my entire CD collection plus a few books with me?

As for the mac books and desktops?  I’m still leery of them.  I could never figure out how to open a file on the original Macs, so I dread the thought of trying to figure that out on the new ones. 

Yet, I really want an alternative to Microsoft.  I use a Palm for that reason, but I’ve struggled and failed (so far) to get Linux to work, and there’s that aforementioned Mac Anxiety.  What else can I do?  I don’t want to move to Vista, and my present PC and laptop should be good for two to three more years, but eventually, I’ll have to figure out a way ahead.

That was around 2 years ago and I am still using my iPod all of the time, such as right now. It’s a great thing to indulge in all of my media without having to carry anything burdensome. The long battery life for just listening to music is great and is perfect for travel. I hear the video playback drains the battery, but I don’t plan on watching Lord of the Rings on my iPod.

Then in May, I bought a MacBook Pro and it’s the best computer I’ve had to date. It helps fuel the creative fire inside of me and instead of having to find the right kind of software to do something, it has most of it right there and I sit there and dream of ways I could use the different media software.

My next Desktop is going to be a Mac Pro and I’m really hoping to get one sooner rather than later.

I am a full fledged Apple fanatic now and while it is expensive, I haven’t had any issues with my Apple products that I’ve had on my Windows PC’s and I consider it a great buy.

SINNER!!! :)

Actually, from a business perspective, Apple has often been on the cutting edge of technology… In fact MUCH of what the PC world has done, Apple did first. Example: The Apple Newton, which was basically a Palm Pilot (fully functioning) that came out in the early nineties, but because it was “ahead of its time” (Cell Phones were still very new and only owned by the very rich. Doctors still carried pagers.) and because Apple didn’t have a good marketing department, it flopped.

All Apple has needed for a very long time is a marketing department, and it’s looked like they’ve finally found one in the last few years. And yes, marketing is a 3/4 of an iceberg bigger than the ads one sees in TV.