Apple iPod: Compact MP3 Player Provides Good Mix of Features and Performance. (Reviews).(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)

Macworld, January, 2002 by Seff, Jonathan

Apple's iPod, a 6.5-ounce MP3 player the size of a deck of cards, is one of the most exciting products to come from Apple in years. Powered by FireWire, the iPod can hold up to 5GB of data, providing a compelling balance of size and capacity. However, this combination of features comes at a relatively high price: $399.

But How Does It Work? Between the iPod's stainless-steel back and Lucite front is a hard drive large enough to hold roughly 1,000 songs encoded in MP3 format at 160 kbps. The drive's enormous cache--32MB of solid-state RAM--virtually eliminates ...