How much of the $400 US goes towards the Apple branding in an iPOD?

spaffe said:
I've been considering this one for a while; it has gotten good reviews and is actually pretty cheap (not that I can afford it in any near future but still).
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THIS IS THE WAY TO GO. I'm probably going to buy it soon too. I have a Creative 5 GB MP3 player (got it back in 2001, when it still was super fresh and trendy to have a gadget such as that :p), and it has served me well. Alas, the battery capacity is ridiculous, and it's also VERY BIG, and thus I shall have to move on to newer players.
 
speed said:
I argue with a few friends of mine about the IPod all the time. Its a material status symbol, that is functional. Fuck, they talk about their fucking ipods all the fucking time. My ipod holds this and this, I just put this and this song on it, blah, blah, blah.
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Jesus. I'm glad I don't know idiots like that. Sure, hanging out in the garage drinking beer we have some DVD-Rs with goat knows how many albums on mp3, but also George Harrison - All Things Must Pass on vinyl, nikkuh!?!?

More proof that beer transcends technology.
 
Nothing to do with downloading, J. If I go away for a week, I'd rather carry 10 albums on a SINGLE CD-R in MP3 format than carry 10 actual discs.

By the way Spaffe, that Creative Zen costs you $325 for 20GB? Forget it man, that is too much.

All you Europeans absolutely should be buying from the USA for everything. $220 for 40Gb is 120 quid.

Actually, Russell bought his external 200Gb hard disk for 100 quid!!!!!!

Russell - I think you are the winner here. I might do the external hard drive and MP3 memory stick thing now. Cheers you dirty hippy.
 
Go to www.cnet.com and read their reviews of mp3 players.

I have a 20GB Dell, and I love it. Its way smaller than a CD player. Plus, now I have almost all my CDs on my hardrive. This will be handy when I get stereos in other rooms of the house networked to my computer.

You can fit a lot of CDs in 20GB. I still have quite a few to rip too. My Dell is about 11 GB full. Something around 200 CDs, I think.
 
Oh . . . the Dell's are built VERY sturdy. Since I use mine in tractors, combines, etc., I need something that can take abuse. Plus Dell's are pretty cheap, so if I break it I won't cry as hard.
 
I have an iPod. If it broke, I'd buy another one that same day, without a second thought. I can't live without it. Aside from using it at the gym, I drop it into my inMotion speakers at my desk and work, I have an iPod interface through my car stereo, and often fall asleep listening to it in bed. On vacation, I took my iPod and inMotion with us. Not only does it function as alarm clock, but we were able to take it out by the beach, out by the pool and listen to it while we relaxed.

One of the best reasons to buy an iPod, is it's accessories. For instance, you can buy all sorts of devices to compliment your iPod, that just don't exist for most other (if any) MP3 players.

Zod
 
You dont know people like that? Most women I know have Ipods, or want a Ipod. And most trendy guys have one. Its like the special features cellphone craze wore off, and the ipod craze filled the void.
 
JayKeeley said:
Russell - I think you are the winner here. I might do the external hard drive and MP3 memory stick thing now. Cheers you dirty hippy.
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I'm pleased with my set up :) It also means my MP3 player is expendable - if I get mugged I can buy another for £80, rather than having to re-rip all my CDs and losing £300+ in the process. Which is likely, as people target dirty hippies like me :loco:

Whatever you do tho, don't be tempted by an ipod shuffle. No LCD, and if you want to listen to stuff in order you can't navigate folders, it's pretty much purely designed for shoving on 1gb of random MP3's and playing them randomly too. :yell:
 
The iPod shuffle is the lamest invention since the [insert dumb invention here]. In fact, I can honestly say, I have NEVER listened to a CD on 'random' or 'shuffle' mode. I like things linear. Straight. In sequence!!!!

External hard drive is cool because when I hand my PC laptop in at work for quarterly reimaging thanks to Microsoft air tight security gaps, I can keep all my dodgy non-work stuff on the external. I wonder if I can get my broswer to cache on the external disk? :loco:
 
When one is listening to 50 cent, Usher, british pop etc, does it even matter if its non-linear? I imagine such a shuffle owner would have this to say: " The Shuffle is totally cool, its like I have my own radio station; only I get to pick the songs I like, and there are no commercials--plus its so cute and small. I love my shuffle."
 
One Inch Man said:
I could go for one of those, if I needed something more compact. But there is no reason to walk around with a 40GB harddrive in your pocket, jesus christ. I remember when a 40MB harddrive was a big deal, these kids nowadays, jeez Edith...
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I have 100GB of MP3s :(
 
You might think 160GB is a lot now, but you'll use it all up in about 1 to 2 years. I'd suggest ripping every CD you own PLUS every promo you get. Just cause you can.

Another thing to think about with hard drive vs flash drive players is that the hard drive players can't take quite as much abuse (bouncing and such). Hard drive player still have moving parts, where flash players don't. Although I have a Dell hard drive player that I bounce the crap out of, and it is still going.
 
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