Advice on mp3 ipod thingys.

[Patrio7]

iriver or a flash memory player by creative

just be sure to throw a couple of dollars at a good set of earphones, stock ones are like our beloved commodores stock exhausts, usable but there no punch

 

[matty88]

I sencond that^^ my Laser ones are crap, no bass whatsoever. They do have a clip that holds onto the MP3 player though. My good Philips one's dont

 

[phat_com]

I have an iriver h320 (20gig light the ipod video size) and its awesome, I have dropped it when riding (at the skatepark) and its still working fine.
I had a cheap 256mb one from the warehouse and it was fine until one day about 2 months after i bought it the earphone port stopped working.
i would say iRiver or a creative one (i have heard there pretty good)

 

[Phreddy]

For my opinion, I wouldn't buy an iPod. Buy the iRiver - just as good sound quality as the iPod (that's the thing they really have going for them...), but they're much more nicely / solidly made. (I have the iRiver H120 - 20GB HDD based - it's bloody excellent)

The Creative units are nice too - not as "connectible" as the iRiver though - that's what sold me on it. Both harwired AND optical input AND outputs, magnesium case, damn nice unit. Although, the iPods are number one for small size - the iRiver is a little chunky... Size isn't the primary concern for me though - build quality and reliability is.

Cheerz!

 

[bezz]

have a look at the creative muvo range also... you can have a 1gb for 99.95, and a 2gb for 149.95. Best value quality mp3 player out there at the moment me thinks

 

[Weissen]

Anything with less than 2GB is a bit of a waste of time IMO. You just end up shuffling your music on and off there all the time to make space for new stuff as your music collection grows as I found out.
Get something with at least 20GB (preferably a lot more) so you can just keep on adding new music as you go. :thumbsup:
Also impotant is something with a rechargeable battery. You don't want to be feeding the unit a new $3 AAA cell every day or two.

Either iRiver or iPod are both excellent products for different reasons.

Whatever you get make sure to spend a bit more on some good earbuds, it's well worth it if you appeciate your music.
Either Shure or Sennheiser make some good ones.

 

[Christina]

why pay 300 or so bucks for a mini ipod when you can pay something like 370 now for a 30GB ipod?

iPods are sweet though. i love my video 30GB

 

[Phreddy]

Whatever you get make sure to spend a bit more on some good earbuds, it's well worth it if you appeciate your music.
Either Shure or Sennheiser make some good ones.

Agreed. (my iRiver was supplied with Sennheiser! )

 

[Lumps of cheese]

Mmmm what to do!
Honestly thanks to all who have voiced their opinion, just one more stupid question.
What is flash memory???

 

[Weissen]

What is flash memory???

It's solid state memory, the same as resides in the main memory of your PC (not your hard disk though). It consists of a series of memory chips that contain the data as a bunch of electrical charges, ie no moving parts

Things like the larger capacity iPods actually have a small hard drive disk in them that stores data in a magnetic format like an audio cassette or VHS tape for instance ie there are moving parts.

As usual, there are pro's and con's for both.