First action is to setup itunes on my newish laptop, then plug in the iPod Touch. It went through the usual firmware upgrades and the like. All very painless.

Setting up the wifi was next, and it would be easier if those slidey things were less pernicky about where you stop sliding them. For those unfamiliar with these software switches, you drag them with your finger to the end of the track where they then change state. Most times. With irritating frequency they slide back to the start again.

The Belkin wifi router/access point won’t play with the iPod any more than it will with Macs, identical behaviour. Very annoying. So I’ve bought a Netgear access point and it works fine. The initial connection is fast and switching from office to home is seamless. Much, much better than the MacOS version of the Wifi I was using before.

As I mentioned below in hardware, I was impressed that I could slot it onto my cradle thing at home and play through the hifi.

Syncing contacts was very good - once you know you can do it. I’ve downloaded all the Outlook contacts to the iPod, a process that works via iTunes. However I only found out I could do this by accident.

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