Sony Walkman NW-A1000 review

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4.7

mediocre

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December 3, 2006

Posted by: lurk _a_lot

"Beautiful design, great sound quality, marred by unusable software"

What I like:

Design & sound - top notch, what I'd expect from a Sony Walkman product

What I don't like:

The supplied Connect software - riddled with bugs & not user friendly

Review:

I wanted to give this product a 8 or 9 out of 10 - the player is beautifully designed, sleek & solid feeling, the interface is very easy to use too & the sound quality is superb, just what I expect from a Sony Walkman product. Unfortunately, I will only give this MP3 player a 5, because the supplied Connect software used to download tracks on & off the player is utterly user-unfriendly. I have a Vaio laptap that's a couple of years old, but due to the resource-hungry software, the software would not run on it all. I had to use my husband's PC that he uses to run servers & code software on; why does a piece of music transfer software NEED such a high-spec PC to run on?! Shoddy, poor programming by the Sony technicians has destroyed any chance of this hardware being Sony's so-called iPod killer.

On a side note, the player works just fine using either Sonic Sound Stage or the latest version of Windows Media Player (so far), so if you get one of these players & it has the Connect software disk enclosed, ditch it & use it as a coaster, because that is all it's good for.