Re: OT - ipods

Not set on it. I've only purchased a few songs from itunes, not enough to feel locked in.


DJGordon wrote:
What do you mean by the real thing? I'm not saying the iPod is any better or any worse than any other player, but at least all the other players aren't proprietary like the iPod. All the other players can use WMP, explorer interface, whatever, to sync, and the iPod won't (correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I understand). You can get universal docks, speakers, FM tuners, skins, accessories for all the others too. Creative Zen...and who on here doesn't like Soundblaster brand? Sandisk Sansa, and who on here hasn't used something made by Sandisk and not liked it? But they aren't the real thing? Dionna specifically asked for an iPod, but there was just no way I could afford $195 for her or she would have gotten nothing else, but I still consider her Sansa very much the real thing and she is now tickled pink with it.....and just one word about iPod, my niece is still fighting with hers she got for Christmas now 3 days later. I can't bash anything, but I can support the Sansa from experience already. My main client sent me an iPod a couple months ago and I myself couldn't get the hang of the silly buttons. This was a brand new unit and I could only get one of the buttons to work and you didn't press on them, you just ran your thumb over them and then it clicked so fast that I would have to go back through my choices all over again to try to stop on what I needed. Maybe I'm just iPod challenged though--I only had it for about three days.

Anyway, Rae, as I said, you pick what you want. I just wanted to give my opinion from someone who couldn't afford to pay that much for one and I think we are just as happy as Jeanne, Jeannie, and some of the others who have voiced their opinions. So far I haven't seen anything except the iTunes interface itself being much different, so I think it will come down to a matter of choice. iTunes will only recognize an Apple MP3 player, so if you are set on synching using iTunes that may be the way you want to go. However, I will add one more time that I loved how easy it was to drag and drop the songs from whatever folder I chose onto the Sansa.

Dani

"haggis" <haggis.20seos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:haggis.20seos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Got myself a 60GB iPod and a 4GB Nano for daughter, and can't imagine
picking anything but the real thing. I plug it into my USB and it syncs
with iTunes, I can add in anything I want from iPhoto, I can sync my
iCal and address book, I can add memos to myself, and yes, it is just
plain cool. I got the black one because it was different and I was
silly enough to think it would show fingerprints less (not). Also got
the Griffin RoadTrip, which is a dock for the iPod in my car and
broadcasts to any FM station I choose. Add a speaker dock for the
office (deductible, right?) and I'm set.

IMHO, you should pick the biggest model you can rationalize, because
you will always fill it up.


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haggis 



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