 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | reply to TOPDAWG
Re: Boo Ya said by TOPDAWG:More like waiting so they can resell the thing to currant iPod owners. No idea why people will keep buying iPod for small upgrades. I will not get one cause of this small update shit they do. Unfortunately, any vendor that can get away with it, will do the same thing.
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 TOPDAWGPremium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON | Your right I'm not going to single out iPod. They all do it. I mean Zen 2 is coming out already. I was just talking about the subject of iPod when I said that.
I just want a MP# player that plays music and shows the stuff your playing on the screen. I was going to get a 2GB RCA one last week but got a graphics card. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by TOPDAWG:Your right I'm not going to single out iPod. They all do it. I mean Zen 2 is coming out already. I was just talking about the subject of iPod when I said that. I just want a MP# player that plays music and shows the stuff your playing on the screen. I was going to get a 2GB RCA one last week but got a graphics card. The fun part about the MP3 players is you have the choice of two storage technologies, both of which are flawed:- micro-drive (hard disk) based storage
- flash memory based storage
Hard drives really are not designed to put up with the G-shocks of a very portable device. Thus, they tend to have short lifetimes - even shorter than one would expect from a laptop.
Flash-media has a finite lifetime, as well. If you are the type of person that is constantly changing the song-load on your flash-based MP3-player, you eventually exhaust the rewritability of the media.
Then again, the batteries will usually die before you ever reach either of those limits. Overall, I think the constant release stream for incremental feature sets is designed to get you to replace your MP3 player before you realize just how disposable they are.
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TOPDAWGPremium
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Midland, ON | I've yet to own a MP3 player myself. I don't need one that plays video and all that BS. Damn if I would want to watch something on them tiny screens.
If I were going to get one like that the zen seems cool plays allot of video formats too. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by TOPDAWG:I've yet to own a MP3 player myself. I don't need one that plays video and all that BS. Damn if I would want to watch something on them tiny screens. If I were going to get one like that the zen seems cool plays allot of video formats too. Just avoid the Zune. As horrible as the iPod's iTunes software is, the Zune software manages to be even worse. The Zune software can take a formerly stable XP system and make it crashy. The iPod software you can at least avoid by using the scads of third-party replacements. What's more, there are options for other than just Windows for managing your music library if you go iPod vs. Zune.
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