Which iPod should i buy?
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Abaddon
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Actual useability.
The scroll wheel is effortless, and has been copied but not bettered.
I am not buying it for posing power, i always make an effort not to buy the mainstream (never had a nokia phone for example)
I have played about with various cheap mp3 players, and always been keen to fiddle with friends other more exotic sony/panasonic/ceative/etc but they are no way as easy to use as a pod is.
I hate the ammount of pople that have it, i hate the fact people say "if you have an iPod, or mp3 player as if its something else.. but i have come to accept it really is the bst out there
The scroll wheel is effortless, and has been copied but not bettered.
I am not buying it for posing power, i always make an effort not to buy the mainstream (never had a nokia phone for example)
I have played about with various cheap mp3 players, and always been keen to fiddle with friends other more exotic sony/panasonic/ceative/etc but they are no way as easy to use as a pod is.
I hate the ammount of pople that have it, i hate the fact people say "if you have an iPod, or mp3 player as if its something else.. but i have come to accept it really is the bst out there
LLXerxes
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Just remember that iPods don't play the same files. Infact, they only work with iTunes. You can't use anything from Yahoo! music or AOL or anything on the iPod, because Apple has to be little shathats about capatibility.Abaddon said:
LLXerxes said:Just remember that iPods don't play the same files. Infact, they only work with iTunes. You can't use anything from Yahoo! music or AOL or anything on the iPod, because Apple has to be little shathats about capatibility.
Not true at all.
Well, maybe partially true.
An iPod will play mp3s as well as some other formats. Don't be mad at Apple if they don't use Yahoo's bizarre proprietary format. Be mad at Yahoo for not using mp3s.
iPods also will interface with other things besides iTunes, my co-worker uses w/ Real player (/shudder).
De Lorimier
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And the Apple-cult. Some folks go a little overboard on this one.sysyphus said:
De Lorimier said:
I'm not in the "apple cult", but I love my iPod, as far as devices go.
Its cost-effective, easy-to-use, well-designed, elegant, etc.... etc....
But its the only apple product I have or use.
De Lorimier
North American Scum
Wich is why I'm not putting you in that cult. It's just that some Mac users, especially some older guys at work, are completly nuts over their computers and the corporation building it. A little unhealthy if you ask me. It's just computers after all..Shane. said:
About the iPod, I'm in the same boat as sysphus. I bought an Apple product (iPod Shuffle wich I loved at first) in march of last year and it died in jun of this year. Fifteen months of use for a product like this is simply ridiculous.
And I'm not a computer expert, but when I extracted songs from cds with iTunes, it produced MP4 files. I have a lot of records and it took me four nights and days to convert all my music files so I could used them on iTunes and put them in my iPod. I also burned all of music files on six dvds as a backup if I got robbed again. These dvds have brought joy and despair to my many friends and coworkers who borrowed them to copy and paste the music. The files I extracted with iTunes only couldn't be played on their WMP and when it's your main library and for a lot of people it is, it blows. Now, as I said, I'm kind of a computer ignorant and thus could be mistaken, but this isn't right. I'll just buy something else next time
De Lorimier said:
DeL,
For iTunes, its a setting, its incredibly easy to change. It will rip to the format of your choice. The default is mp4. But you can set it for lots of other things, though I bet one of them IS NOT the windows proprietary format.
If you need help w/ iTunes look me up in IM. Ditto anyone else. I'm not an iTunes hax0r, but I know the basics and find it very easy software to use.
De Lorimier
North American Scum
See, I am a computer idiot! 
But it doesn't chande the fact that my iPod died on me after fifteen months. I now have a grudge with Apple.
But it doesn't chande the fact that my iPod died on me after fifteen months. I now have a grudge with Apple.
RameNoodle
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I have a thirty gig Video, and its perfect. The only problem is that you have to keep it in a case, otherwise the screen scratches really easily. However, it is nice to know that if I had this for another ten years, I still would probably not run out of space for stuff. I have about 900 songs and 40 videos, and I'm only taking up about of a third of the space.
grahamiam
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Problem is, the Lithium-Ion batteries Ipods use only last for about 400-500 recharges, so there's no way you are getting 10 yrs out of it without replacing the battery. If you want to keep it for that long, I suggest you google "ipod battery replacement" and prepare for "surgery" since Apple didn't exactly make it practical to replace it yourselfRameNoodle said:
Or you can give $67 to Apple and they will "replace" the battery for you (they actually give you a rebuilt Ipod).http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/04/04/who_designed_this_crap_uk/index.html
Buying an ipod officially makes you an idiot.
I payed £30 for a 512mb no-name mp3 player. One of my friends payed £70 for a 512mb ipod. Mine still works, his died within a few months of him buying it.
Buying an ipod officially makes you an idiot.
I payed £30 for a 512mb no-name mp3 player. One of my friends payed £70 for a 512mb ipod. Mine still works, his died within a few months of him buying it.
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Creative Zen is a nice mp3 player. I like them better than iPods.
nihilistic
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It really depends on what your priorities are. If your utmost priority is to buy the most recognizable name-brand stuff to impress your technophobic female friends or if you are a technophobic person, then iPods are great choices (seriously, those are relevant and respectable goals). If not, buy something cheaper that works just as good.
I have to confess though, I bought an iPod for my mom. Looks mattered for her and iPod has good multilanguage support, so it wasn't a completely erroneous choice. That website lauded the scratching stuff a bit too much, but it did had a point with the DRM. The software that came with iPod is buggy, horrible, bloated, and proprietory. It really gave me a horrible impression of Apple.
I have to confess though, I bought an iPod for my mom. Looks mattered for her and iPod has good multilanguage support, so it wasn't a completely erroneous choice. That website lauded the scratching stuff a bit too much, but it did had a point with the DRM. The software that came with iPod is buggy, horrible, bloated, and proprietory. It really gave me a horrible impression of Apple.
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