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iPod Mini Now Available in Canada (sortof)
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The Faceless Master
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you mean you coudn't get them in canada all this time?
TheQueen'sOwn
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I love this! Ipod for blah$ lol. I got my Dell Digital Jukebox (15 gig) for $280 Canadian.
Winged Creature
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bionic77 said:
yep better sound quality with the dell, personally im gonna go for the Iriver blows everything else away
Winged Creature said:
MP3 players are not known for their sound quality, you get them so you can carry all of your music around with you. They are for convenience. Nothing beats the Ipod for ease of use and portability imho. Their only weakness is their battery (only 8 hours) and price. Look around though, almost everyone who gets one swears by it and loves it.
TheQueen'sOwn
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What? A longer lasting battery (around 16-18 hours)? Better sound quality? Portability that is just as good as the Ipod? All for a lower price?bionic77 said:
lol
The only drawback to the Dell is that you can't search through the songs as quickly... but I really don't care.
And I'm not cheap either... I mean I can literally taste, smell, feel the [extra] money that it cost to make something more expensive. And in many cases I won't buy the cheaper product because I generally live by "You get what you pay for......" but in this case (I have a cousin with an Ipod and I've tried it out), I couldn't really justify spending another $70 for the Apple brandname....
TheQueen'sOwn
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1) I couldn't care less about Itunes.
2) It ain't flawed enough to bother me, let alone pay an additional $70 dollars on something else.
2) It ain't flawed enough to bother me, let alone pay an additional $70 dollars on something else.
TheQueen'sOwn
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My most important feature is battery time.bionic77 said:
and I'm not new to mp3 players... I bought one of the original Diamond Rio's (which I returned probably 4-5 times because of the god damned internal clock which I'm sure fucked it up), and then the Hip Zip (which I paid $450 dollars for
).Hitman said:
Isn't that the most important part? Being able to easily navigate thousands of songs is what keeps Apple at the top for now at least. Eventually though they will fail because someone will MS them and copy what they do, but keep it open and thus it will become cheaper.
TheQueen'sOwn
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6.8 said:
That's another thing I don't understand. People buying those really small RCA Lyra (is that the one?). Anything that is smaller than the credit card used to buy it is too small, imo lol. Once you get something that small you've gone past portability and you delved into the realm of something easy to lose.
TheQueen'sOwn
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Hitman said:
Same here with the Dell.
Hitman said:
The all powerful scroll wheel and itunes. Sounds like you guys never actually used an Ipod before. I have used a few Archos and the Iriver when I was looking around, never tried the Dell (very tempted because of its features and price), but I was sold when I played around with my friend's Ipod for a day.
TheQueen'sOwn
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Yeah the scroll wheel on the Ipod is really easy to use (light tap and zooom! through the lists of songs).bionic77 said:
However the Dell has the scroll wheel also
... just doesn't scroll through the lists as quickly lol.bionic77 said:
I've used my sisters Ipod mini. I don't see what's so great about the scroll wheel. Sure its cool and all being touch sensitive but I can still go through my song on the Iriver jsut as easily. One quick look through the iriver's feature list and you can see that it is superior to ipod.
TheQueen'sOwn said:Yeah the scroll wheel on the Ipod is really easy to use (light tap and zooom! through the lists of songs).
However the Dell has the scroll wheel also
Note, I said all powerful scroll wheel.
Like I said before though, I fully expect Apple to totally fuck it up and blow their lead within the next 5 years because they won't share their shit and someone else will just come alone and copy it and make it cheaper, it will be Windows all over again, might even be MS that does it.
mjq jazz bar
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People are paying more just because the iPod is more convenient. Convenience is worth a lot.
TheQueen'sOwn
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bionic77 said:
Whatever happens, I don't intend on buying a new mp3 player for a long while (I have 2000 songs on this Dell now and it's practically every song I have ever heard. I don't even like all of them lol).
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I'm really really pleased with my ipod mini.
If you are happy with the features and price before you buy it, you won't be disappointed.
If you are happy with the features and price before you buy it, you won't be disappointed.
The Faceless Master
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i ALMOST posted this... but i decided against it... oh well...Hitman said:
Welcome to PWNED Street. Population: ipod
SteveMeister
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Hitman said:
It also allows you to rip & burn CD's, convert music between file formats, tag your music (automatically, if you're connected to the Internet when you rip a CD), organize your music into manually-selected or "smart" playlists, share your playlists over a LAN, synch seamlessly with your iPod or other MP3 player, play music remotely on your stereo if you get an Airport Express base station, and connect to the iTunes Music Store. And a few other things besides.
Basically it's a single application to do everything you need to do with your music, other than downloading illegally.
Idle Will Kill
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SteveMeister said:Basically it's a single application to do everything you need to do with your music, other than downloading illegally.
I don't know if it's still around, but everyone at Pitt last year used a program called myTunes where you could download other peoples iTunes music. So yes, you can even use it to illegally download music.
And I don't really have anything important to add other than I love my iPod and it's probably my favorite thing I've ever purchased (though my 15" Powerbook is right up there).
Winged Creature
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Iriver owns all. It acts as an external hard drive, no software needed
Winged Creature
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but u dont need software to transfer music onto the iriver, just drag and drop
Edit: plus u have FM tuner, built in mic, digital in and out and much longer battery life, and better sound quality
Edit: plus u have FM tuner, built in mic, digital in and out and much longer battery life, and better sound quality
BigJonsson
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Apple is fucking Canadians up the ass
BigJonsson
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I wonder how much Best Buy will charge for them lol
Semjaza Azazel
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Winged Creature said:
Plus people fail to realize that there are programs other than iTunes that do very similiar things. It's not in a league of its own or some nonsense. I personally don't like the program at all, at least not on PCs.
Winged Creature
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There was no contest, Iriver is the best
Tortfeasor
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A 20 gig Ipod will store 2x as many songs as the Iriver because the Iriver doesn't support the ACC format which rips files off CD's at about half the size of MP3 files.
Plus, the Iriver is ugly as hell
Plus, the Iriver is ugly as hell
Freestyler
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There's a reason iPod has 70% of the market - it's the best, hands down.
Winged Creature
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Tortfeasor said:A 20 gig Ipod will store 2x as many songs as the Iriver because the Iriver doesn't support the ACC format which rips files off CD's at about half the size of MP3 files.
Plus, the Iriver is ugly as hell
Iriver supports more formats
MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF and more, plus they update their firmware very often, the only thing the Ipod has on the Iriver is looks. Your just getting so many more features with the iriver, it is the better choice. The reason that the Ipod is dominating the market is simple: marketing. Apple is a much larger firm then most of the other companies that make mp3 players, thus has the money to spend on alot of advertising.
mjq jazz bar
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iRiver is no more than a blip on the radar when up against the iPod. It may be the best at everything, but it'll never be enough to concern Apple.
Idle Will Kill
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john tv said:
Because it's a different market. There are a few other companies with these small, HD players and they are all around the same price/HD size. So no, Apple isn't the devil here for overpricing. They are actually probably the most cost efficient in this market.
And a little tid bit to add...
The new iPods (not mini) are apparently going to be announced next month. They are said to come in different colors and are going to be even smaller. The design is said to be similar to the Mini (I assume this probably means the track wheel on the mini will now be on the normal iPods).
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