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- Reviewed on: 10/26/2004
- Updated on: 05/27/2005
- Released on: 10/26/2004
On a related note, Steve Jobs also announced an Apple iTunes exclusive: the world's first "digital box set," comprising the entire collection of U2's albums as well as unreleased demos and live recordings--more than 400 songs in all. Entitled The Complete U2, the set costs $149 and became available for download on November 23, 2005; understandably, you must use a broadband connection to get it. The $349 iPod U2 is also currently available. Purchasers of the new player will be rewarded with a coupon for $50 off the price of U2's digital box set as well as a poster of the band.
When we put the U2 to the test in CNET Labs, its performance mirrored that of the fourth-generation iPod. Although the U2's average transfer time of 9.38MB per second was notably faster than that of its all-white sibling (which came in at 6.79MB per second), this likely has to do with the fact that CNET Labs received all-new test systems between the time of the two recordings, and all products tested on both the old and new test computers exhibited slightly faster times on the latter. Battery life was about the same, with the U2's 13.3 hours just shy of the 13.9 hours recorded for the fourth-generation iPod.
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