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Posted: 27 May 2004 12:55 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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i’ve decided to go with getting a 3.5” 120 gig disk as a backup storage but am thinking of getting a circa 60 gig portable music player as well. any ideas on what the best solutions are?

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Posted: 27 May 2004 01:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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At that size, the most popular choice is probably the Creative Zen Xtra. If you bump down to 40 GB, the field opens up to choices like the iPod and the iRiver H140 (my personal choice).

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Posted: 27 May 2004 01:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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the iPod has got battery usage issues apparently. what’s the zens battery life like?

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Posted: 27 May 2004 02:15 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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A friend of mine has one and says it gets about 10 hours/charge.

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[quote author=“Drachen”]A friend of mine has one and says it gets about 10 hours/charge.

does he find it a good player?

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Posted: 27 May 2004 03:09 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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He hates it. The faceplate fell off, the sound isn’t great and he hates the jog dial. His is a Zen NX. Oddly enough, another friend’s wife has a Zen and loves it. Hers doesn’t have the problems that the Zen NX has. I’d go to a Zen forum and ask. As I said before, I own an iRiver H140 (which I love) so you won’t get much actual usage info from me.

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Posted: 27 May 2004 03:50 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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[quote author=“Drachen”]He hates it. The faceplate fell off, the sound isn’t great and he hates the jog dial. His is a Zen NX. Oddly enough, another friend’s wife has a Zen and loves it. Hers doesn’t have the problems that the Zen NX has. I’d go to a Zen forum and ask. As I said before, I own an iRiver H140 (which I love) so you won’t get much actual usage info from me.

mmm tough decision, must see whether i can sacrifice not having 60 gigs, your player does look nice

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Posted: 27 May 2004 03:55 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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If you drop down to 20GB, the Dell DJ gets 20-22 hours of real life use. Dell claims 16, but its much higher then that.

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I swear the Zen products are poorly built. They look good in the photos but when you seem them up close in the stores they don’t exude the same feeling. The plastic parts just look cheap. It may have great electronics and features but the build quality just turns me off.

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Posted: 28 May 2004 03:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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LOL: does anybody heard of the Sony ‘Ipod Killer?’  


It’s only 20GB, but it looks pretty sweet.  Only problem, it uses Sony’s ATRAC3 format exclusively, and that as we’ve all seen, is hell and high water in the past.
I’m hoping that the Toshiba 2.5” 100GB might be implemented in a few months in a new player or something.

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Posted: 28 May 2004 10:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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How about this one?

 

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Posted: 29 May 2004 06:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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[quote author=“tifosiv122”]How about this one?

 

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the capacity is too small i’m thinking i need at least 50gigs

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Posted: 29 May 2004 07:28 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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[quote author=“diego”]the capacity is too small i’m thinking i need at least 50gigs

Is there a reason you need 50GB, especially if you say you’re getting that 120GB backup drive?

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Posted: 29 May 2004 08:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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[quote author=“Drachen”][quote author=“diego”]the capacity is too small i’m thinking i need at least 50gigs

Is there a reason you need 50GB, especially if you say you’re getting that 120GB backup drive?

ye well as i said it’s a backup drive so the data would be in 2 places ie. on the player ad on the backup drive, and i don’t really want the hasstle of transfering music back and forth

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