Apple 40 GB iPod from HP (MP103) Review

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(More customer reviews)First, this HP iPod is the same as the Apple iPod. There is an Apple store 1 block from my office and I took it in and compared them. The ONLY difference in the unit itself is a smal HP logo on the back.
I bought this simply because it was in stock and the "Apple" version wasn't, no other reason.
I really like my iPod for all the reasons everyone else does..it's elegant, works well, holds a ton of music, etc. That said, here are a few cons I thought I'd mention...
-Using the device as a hard-drive in Windows requires a setting that makes you "eject" each time you disconnect the cable. Seems like an odd extra step.
-USB connection charges the battery, Firewire doesn't.
-There are fewer cases/covers available for this new design without the buttons above the selector wheel. These things scratch so easily you need a case.
-Sometimes the wrong song title appears on the display, even though the file has the correct one in iTunes.
I also have a few issues with iTunes 4.6 for Windows, a key component of the iPod:
-The screen doesn't refresh automatically, showing a different song playing than actually is. Sometimes I get gibberish on the screen.
-The music store is often quite slow to respond to searches or even hangs.
-There's not enough information on the music to make purchase decisions, so I find myself browsing at Amazon and then buying at iTunes.
-Different iTunes songs have different volume levels. I think there's a setting to make them all the same, but I haven't found it.
-It's hard to synch all your music onto multiple computers. I would like to have my music on my iPod, work laptop, and home desktop. Getting them all the same isn't easy.
-You really have to watch pricing on albums. Most albums cost $9.99 and most songs cost 99 cents. If there are less than 10 songs on an album, you still get charged $9.99, even if you could get all the songs individually for less.
-I had one of the original Rio MP3 players and ripped a lot of songs using their software, which combined song-album-artist into one field. iTunes doesn't parse these when importing.
-If I import music from a CD without an Internet connection, iTunes doesn't go to the CDDB later when I do have a connection to get track info.
Despite all the above, I'm really enjoying my iPod, I just wanted to point out a few of the shortcomings in the hopes that Apple would address.

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