General Features
Video Features
Photo Features
Music Features
Music, Photo and Video Management Software
System Requirements

General Features

Compatibility: This 60 GB Apple iPod is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. See the System Requirements section below for minimum requirements.

Storage Capacity: This iPod has a built-in 60 GB hard drive, capable of storing up to 15,000 songs (4-minute per song average--recorded in AAC format at 128 kbps), 25,000 pictures (iPod viewable photos transferred from iTunes), or 150 hours of video (iPod viewable videos transferred from iTunes). In addition to storing audio and video, you can use the hard drive to store data files as well.

Display: The 65,000-color liquid crystal display measures 2.5" diagonally with 320 x 240 pixel resolution and 0.156mm dot pitch.

Backlighting: The backlight on the iPod's LCD screen illuminates for a selectable duration each time a button is pressed. The backlight timer can be set for 2, 5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds, always on, or off.

Controls: The iPod's touch-sensitive "Click Wheel" controls are located on the front of the unit. The Click Wheel gives you the enhanced durability and sensitivity of the iPod Touch Wheel, with buttons underneath. There are 3 Playback Mode buttons (Play/Pause, Previous/Rewind, Next/Fast-forward) and a Menu button located under the Click Wheel. The Select button is located in the center of the Click Wheel. The Click Wheel and Select button allow you to navigate through menus and song, photo, and video lists, highlight the desired selection, and select the item. To avoid unwanted actions due to accidental button pressing, you can disable the iPod's buttons with the top-mounted hold button.

Headphones: The iPod includes earbud-style headphones with 18mm drivers using Neodymium magnets. Their frequency response is 20-20kHz and impedance is 32 ohms. If desired, you can use any headphones with a 3.5mm mini-plug.

Clock Functions: You can set the date and time, clocks in different time zones, and alarm and sleep features on your iPod. There is also a calendar that can be advanced a day at a time or a month at a time. The alarm clock can be set to any minute up to 24 hours in advance. The sleep timer can be set to automatically turn off the unit in 15, 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes.

Contacts/Calendar Events: Your iPod can store contacts, calendar events, and to-do lists for viewing on the go. If you're using Mac OS X v10.4 or later, you can use iTunes to synchronize your Address Book contacts and iCal calendar information with iPod. If you're using any version of Mac OS X earlier than 10.4, you can use iSync to synchronize your information. Synchronizing information using iSync requires iSync 1.1 or later, and iCal 1.0.1 or later. If you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and you use Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later to store your contact information, you can use iTunes to synchronize contacts with iPod. If you use Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later to keep a calendar, you can also synchronize calendar information.

Note Reader: The iPod has a built-in note reader that lets you download text-based information and read it on the screen.

Games: In addition to enjoying music, books, photos, and videos, you can play one of four pre-loaded games on your iPod. The games that are available include Brick, Music Quiz, Parachute, and Solitaire.

Stopwatch: You can use the stopwatch as you exercise to track your overall time and, if you're running on a track, your lap times. You can play music while you use the stopwatch.

Computer Interfaces: The iPod connects to your computer's high-power USB 2.0 port for downloading and charging the battery. You can also charge the battery by FireWire (also called IEEE 1394 or i.LINK), but downloading is done only by USB.

Power Requirements: The iPod has a built-in rechargeable, non-removable, lithium ion battery. When fully charged, the battery provides up to 20 hours of music playback, up to 4 hours of slideshows with music, or up to 3 hours of video playback. The battery charges up to 80% of capacity in 2 hours and fully charges in 4 hours. A battery life indicator appears at the top of the display. You can also operate the unit while it's connected to an optional power adapter.

Recording Voice Memos: You can record voice memos using an optional iPod-compatible microphone. You can store voice memos on your iPod and load them on your computer. You can set iPod to record at "Mono" quality (22 kHz, mono) to save space, or "Stereo" quality (44.1 kHz, stereo) for a better sound.

Video Output: The headphone jack on the iPod also includes a video output for use with an optional A/V cable (mini-jack to audio and video RCA). The optional iPod Dock has this same A/V mini-jack output and adds an S-video output.

Video Features

Overview: You can purchase videos and TV shows, and download video podcasts at the iTunes Music Store, and then download them to your iPod. You can view and listen to the videos on the iPod or on a TV connected to the iPod.

Video Formats: The iPod supports the following video formats: H.264 video up to 768 kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second and MPEG-4 video up to 2.5mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per second.

Viewing and Listening to Videos on iPod: Downloaded videos appear in the Videos menus on iPod. Music Videos also appear in Music menus. When you choose a video from a Videos menu, you see and hear the video. When you choose a music video from a Music menu, you hear the song, but don't see the video.

Watching Videos on a TV Connected to iPod: If you have an iPod AV Cable, you can watch videos on a TV connected to your iPod. First you set the iPod to display videos on a TV, then connect the iPod to your TV, and then play a video.

Importing and Viewing Your Own Videos on iPod: You can view other video files on the iPod, such as videos you create in iMovie (on a Macintosh) or videos you download from the Internet. Using QuickTime Pro, you can encode a video file for iPod, import it into iTunes, and then download it to iPod just as you would download any video to iPod.

Photo Features

Compatible Formats: The 60 GB iPod will hold up to 25,000 photos downloaded using the included iTunes software converted from JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (Mac only).

Auto Transfer: The iPod can automatically transfer photos using iTunes if you have iPhoto v4.0.3 (Mac), Adobe PhotoShop Album 2.0 or later (PC), or PhotoShop Elements 3.0 or later (PC).

Battery Life: When continuously playing a slideshow and simultaneously playing music, the battery will run for approximately 4 hours.

SlideShow: Photos can be viewed manually (one at a time) or automatically using the slideshow feature. When using slideshow, several settings are adjustable: Time Per Slide (2, 3, 5, 10, or 20 seconds), Repeat (on/off), Transition (12 options), TV Out (allows you to choose On, Off, or Ask; if you set TV Out to Ask, iPod gives you the option of showing videos on TV or on iPod every time you play a video), and TV Signal (NTSC or PAL). Background music can be added to the slideshow and the slides can be displayed in random order.

Album Art: iTunes has a setting allowing the iPod to display the album art associated with the album playing.

Music Features

Audio Formats: The iPod supports the following audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR (variable bit rate), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), AIFF, Apple Lossless, and WAV. When you import music from a CD using iTunes, it is converted to AAC format by default.

Skip Protection: In addition to the hard drive, the iPod has a memory cache. Since it is solid state, there are no moving parts, so it is not affected by movement. The memory preloads up to 17 minutes of music to the cache at a time, equating to a 17 minute skip protection.

Playback Functions: You can set the iPod to repeat one song over and over, or repeat all songs in the list (album or playlist) from which the song was selected. You can also have the iPod shuffle songs or albums. When set to shuffle all songs, it plays all the songs on the iPod in random order. Songs from the current list can also be played in random order. When set to shuffle albums, it plays all the songs on an album in order, then randomly selects another album and plays it through in order. During Shuffle play, the songs do not repeat until all songs have been played.

On-The-Go Playlists: You can program the iPod on the go to play the songs you want in the order you like. The songs are queued in the On-The-Go playlist. In addition to individual songs, you can queue entire lists of songs (albums) in the On-The-Go playlist. There is no limit to the number of selections you can put in the On-The-Go playlist.

Equalizer: The iPod's built-in equalizer has 22 EQ presets to change the sound to suit a particular music genre or style. The presets include: Acoustic, Bass Booster, Bass Reducer, Classical, Dance, Deep, Electronic, Flat, Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin, Loudness, Lounge, Piano, Pop, R&B, Rock, Small Speakers, Spoken Word, Treble Booster, Treble Reducer, and Vocal Booster. The EQ can also be turned off.

Listening to Podcasts: Podcasts are downloadable radio-style shows you get at the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are organized by shows, episodes within shows, and chapters within episodes. If you stop listening to a podcast and go back to it later, the podcast begins playing from where you left off.

Music, Photo and Video Management Software

iTunes: The supplied CD-ROM software provides iTunes software for Mac and Windows users. This software allows you to organize and manage your music, photos and videos. Using this program, you can buy music, music video, TV shows and audio books from the iTunes Music Store, create your own custom playlists, record to CD, import tracks in AAC, rate tracks, sort your library based on ratings, create mixes automatically with Smart Playlists, share playlists with other users, play audio books, or learn a foreign language. With iTunes and an AirPort Express Base Station, you can stream music wirelessly from your Mac or PC to your home stereo or powered speakers.

Volume Levels: iTunes can adjust the volume of songs automatically, so they all play at the same relative volume level.

Audio Books: In addition to music, you can download audio books from the iTunes Music Store (approximately 9,000 titles) or from Audible.com, an independent website with over 18,000 titles. The iPod will keep track of where you left off when you listened last like a virtual bookmark, and when you sync up with iTunes, the bookmark will continually update between the iPod and iTunes. You can also set the speed at which the audio book is played back.

Auto-Synching: Each time you connect the iPod to your computer, the unit's Auto-Synch feature automatically updates it with any changes made to the iTunes program on your computer, including any new photos added and music, music videos, or TV shows purchased at the iTunes Music Store.

Song Ratings: You can assign a rating to a song from 1 to 5 stars to indicate how much you like it. Song ratings can be used to help you create playlists automatically in iTunes.

Smart Playlists: You can create customized Smart Playlists from the songs stored in your music library. Smart Playlists can be generated using any number of criteria; certain genres of music, songs by certain artists, or songs that match particular criteria, such as songs rated 3 stars or higher, or a playlist that's no more than 3 GB in size. After the Smart Playlist is created, any songs you import that meet the Smart Playlist criteria will be automatically added to the Smart Playlist.

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements for Macintosh: To use iPod with a Macintosh, you must have the following:

• Macintosh with a built-in high-power USB 2.0 or FireWire (IEEE 1394/i.LINK) port with optional FireWire cable
• Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later
• iTunes 6 or later (included on the iPod CD)
• iPod software (included on the iPod CD)
• iPhoto 4.0.3 or later (recommended for transferring photos and albums to the iPod)
• QuickTime 7.0.1 or later

Minimum Requirements for Windows: To use iPod with a Windows PC, you must have the following:

• Built-in high-power USB 2.0 or a FireWire card installed
• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later, or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
• iTunes 6 or later (included on the iPod CD)
• iPod software (included on the iPod CD)
• Adobe PhotoShop Album 2.0 or later, or PhotoShop Elements 3.0 or later
• QuickTime 7.0.1 or later