Problems of the new iPod

After one week testing the new iPod (60 Giga), i'm not happy to say that i'm quite disappointed.
I've a music library of 35 gigs and around 3000 photos. Few videos.
The major problem i've noticed is the artwork loading/displayng. In shuffle mode, artworks are showed correctly, but they takes lot of time for loading and the music occasionaly stops for a moment, while the HD is working.
But if i want to play an entire album, the songs frequently are skipped, the music takes many seconds to start, the screen animation remains locked, system freezed, the HD continuously works. I wonder why all this HD activity for loading only 20-80 kb of image data while it takes one second for loading one song of 10 megs? Often the first song of the album is skipped and the album is played from the second one. This problem occours as with artworks added manually, as with artworks of songs buyed from ITMS. No difference.
If i disable the artwork showing (from iTunes), the songs are loaded immediately, fast, with no issue, smooth as with my 4G iPod (no photo), where i have loaded in the same music library.
The photo display is nice, but slooooww! sometimes it takes 30 seconds or more to generate the thumbnail of one folder.
And the HD works continuosly.
I've also checked the HD from disk utility, but everiyhing is OK.
Another note: everyone says that the quality of the display is great. I'm not so satisfied. The quality of the pictures is disappointing, all the colors are washed out. The same photo, showed on the display of my digital camera is absolutely better! The display is too bright for my taste, the photos are showed overexposed, but it lacks of a brightness adjustment...
The only thing i've found very nice and efficient is the movie play. For short movies (< 3 mins.) no issue.
In conclusion: from thee Photo side, this iPod suffers of some serious bugs that i hope to be corrected ASAP. In addition, the continuous HD activity when loading images (photos and artworks) dramatically drains the battery charge. The song skipping sometimes is a frustrating experience, due to the issue of the artwork loading that lock the entire system for few seconds.
I think that Apple has commercialized this product too soon, not yet well optimized and fully tested, only to have it available in the stores for Christmas time. But it's far to be what i've read on some reviews...

I wouldn't bet against a software update to fix this problem, but who knows how long you'd have to wait.

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