Man is Windows XP a buzz kill. I bought my adorable little iPod Shuffle at the Apple Store on Monday, stopped by Best Buy on the way home to purchase a Windows XP upgrade, and brought it all home only to figure out that Windows XP takes 3 goddamn hours to install. OK, when I put in the CD, it said “approximately 88 minutes until installation is complete” but apparently there’s some kind of Albert Einstein Speed-of-Light Theory-of-Relatively malarkey going on inside my computer because it took THREE HOURS to install. So I didn’t get iTunes installed until after midnight, and I didn’t have time to actually rip any CDs. So on Tuesday morning, I loaded my little white baby up with the 20 measly mp3 files I already had on my computer and I took it to work. I was going to iPod no matter what!
Last night I ripped three more CDs, plus I downloaded the two iTunes free music sampler album doodads, so today I had a little more selection, but the Shuffle was still only half full. Seems like it will fit approximately 10 CDs worth of music on it, which is just fine for my tone-deaf ass. They were all sold out of the armband, though, so I guess I’m going to have to quit jogging for a while (har!).