Well, I've read a bit about iPod on Wikipedia, and I gotta say it's not bad, but I'm still sticking to what I've said before. Not because iPod is bad, but because the price is just unreasonable. I think some are even $400 or more. Here you can get an MP3 Player for $30 with 512 MB of flash memory, which I think is more than enough for all your songs. If you want something to play videos, view pictures, even CALL, then get iPod. But if all you want is to listen to music, then MP3 Player is the way to go. It's just unreasonable that something like iPod is $400. It's even more crazy what they're doing with them. First, iPods were just for music. Then pictures. Then the ability to make phone calls. Then video support. The same thing is happening to mobile phones. I swear one day someone is going to make a mobile phone or iPod that's gonna fire laser beams and teleport us to the moon :\ .
Well I have about 20 songs I listen to, so that memory is more than enough. Most of my songs are around 3 MB, so do the math, that's 60 MB roughly. 512 MB would then have the ability to store 170 of my songs. I used to have a 256 MB player, and I never got it full with songs. Not ever.512 mb isn't enough .
I top out at a modest 3.4 gigs of music. I say modest because I know a lot of people who dl songs they've never heard and will probably never listen to just so they have 10,000 songs.
LOL *cough*Bolteh said:And you might just think "Why doesn't Mac make OSX for PC then?".. Well, because the strength of OSX lays in the fact that Apple design OSX to work flawlessly with any Mac-hardware.. Macs use about 100% of their hardware.. While PCs hardly use 70-80% of the available hardware.. If Apple was to create an OSX for PC, it wouldn't run so fast as it does now + they would basicly have to rebuild OSX from scratch (since OSX for Macs actually use the hardware).
Just let me point out something.You have different iPod models eh.. Shuffle 1GB ($79), Nano 2GB ($149) 4GB ($199) 8GB ($249) and Video 30GB ($249) 80GB ($349).
As you can see, there are cheaper iPods as well, but you won't get video on the Shuffle and Nano (photos on Nano though).
Also, the iPhone isn't part of the iPod series, the iPhone is a phone with MP3 player, not and MP3 player with a phone.
The main thing I am getting at is Itunes. I don't actually have to have it installed just to do my bidding in terms of using it as a portable hdd, where's with an Ipod you have to go through and configure it's use for a portable hdd.Bolteh said:And Overlord:
I use my iPod as portable HDD as well, I use it as backup HD (stores all of my mp3 files, workfiles, schoolfiles, important programs and drivers (so I don't need to download everything each time I format).. I also use it to exchange files from school (Mac) and my homecomputer (PC).. Works like a charm.. So I don't really get your point of that statement.
The thing is though I can already do that out of the box. Plus, I have more freedom with what I want to do with the product, take into account you have to set it for hd space (and note I am familiar with that), where I can do what I want with 100% of the storage available, so if whatever reason I have to make big changes to what's on there and as compared to having an Ipod, you set the amount of space via Itunes. If I'm in a public place on a computer for instance with no install permissions, I am pretty sunk since I can't install Ituens on that pc because I don't have user rights and I also need to change the amount of space I can use. If I use a zen, I can do what I want with 100% of my space, which is really peace of mind for me. Plus I can playback a wider range of formats then a Ipod, I can **** around with the voice recorder for a lot of different things and can also listen to radio.I have iTunes on my homecomputer (duh), when I bought my iPod, I obviously installed iTunes (was using iTunes before I bought my iPod though), there I turned on the 'Use as HD".. That was 15 months ago, 1 click (well 2 if you count OK), and it's been working as HD ever since.. Even on computers that didn't have iTunes or the ipod-software..
You have to set the amount of space your iPod can use? Wow, didn't know that, a person learns new things every days, even after 15 months.The thing is though I can already do that out of the box. Plus, I have more freedom with what I want to do with the product, take into account you have to set it for hd space (and note I am familiar with that), where I can do what I want with 100% of the storage available, so if whatever reason I have to make big changes to what's on there and as compared to having an Ipod, you set the amount of space via Itunes. If I'm in a public place on a computer for instance with no install permissions, I am pretty sunk since I can't install Ituens on that pc because I don't have user rights and I also need to change the amount of space I can use. If I use a zen, I can do what I want with 100% of my space, which is really peace of mind for me. Plus I can playback a wider range of formats then a Ipod, I can **** around with the voice recorder for a lot of different things and can also listen to radio.
Those are the advantages I can't stress enough. You can also fijnd reviews comparing the playback quality from each player, and the zen ends up beating most competing ipod products.
All products can be DOA and break, there's a reason for having a warranty should your product break at some stage during the time the warranty lasts for.If your beloved zen:m is touch-pad based, I'll never go back to that type of interface after having a Zen Touch 20gb, and a Micro both lose touch functionality. Not forgetting my roommate, sister, and girlfriend's micros also losing touch functionality.
The other features alone of then zen are enough to make the Ipod look dim.You have to set the amount of space your iPod can use? Wow, didn't know that, a person learns new things every days, even after 15 months.
Wait, and why is the Zen easier than an iPod again?From CNET's Review of Zen Vision:M
Instead of integrating everything under one roof, as Apple has done with iTunes, Creative forces you to use four separate programs: ZenCast Manager, Media Explorer, MediaSource Organizer, and Sync Manager.
Have you, or do you own a vision:m?.Wait, and why is the Zen easier than an iPod again?