[phatty]

sees another poor, mindless, brainwashed soul marching in a line of white and chrome carrying zombies

 

[Cyclone]

royboy what are you thinking? why are you buying a 4g ipod with only 1g of music. get the micro, its cheaper, has more features, better SQ (not line-out), comes in more than 1 color, and for gods sake you just said that you didnt want to have an ipod like everybody else. as for the quality issues its like someone once said "asking how reliable a DAP is on a portable audio forum is like going to a hospital and asking how easy it is to get sick"

ps. i jacked that quote from someone here on these forums so go ahead and speak up to take credit.

 

[royboy159]

You have a micro too, i'm talking about the 20 gb ipod not the mini. sometimes I am a hipocrit and I will get the ipodOh I meant 4th generation, sorry for mistaking you all....

 

[Cyclone]

Quote:

Originally Posted by royboy159 You have a micro too, i'm talking about the 20 gb ipod not the mini. sometimes I am a hipocrit and I will get the ipodOh I meant 4th generation, sorry for mistaking you all....

you have some serious sentence structure issues.

i know your talking about the 20 gb ipod, its also called the 4g. just do your self a favor and save your self the 60 bucks and buy the micro, it just an issue of HD size and how much music you have.

 

[zachary80]

You have 1gb music @ what kbps?

If it is already at least 192 and you do not plan on buying much more in the future, and do not plan on using the extra space as a portable hard drive, I would go with one of the smaller and cheaper players.

 

[Bacon]

Or If you are content on getting a 20 GB player, get the Zen Touch, my friend has one and he loves the long lasting battery life and easy to use interface.

 

[MetalManCPA]

Personally, I chose the Zen Micro over the iPod mini. For one, 5GB was plenty of space for me, so that ruled out any of the 20GB and up models. I never felt the need to carry my entire music collection with me.

The factor that decided it for me - the removable battery. Power sources will die, and I don't like anything that has a battery soldered to the motherboard. My son has a 20GB iPod, and my ears think the Zen sounds better.

 

[zachary80]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalManCPA Power sources will die, and I don't like anything that has a battery soldered to the motherboard.

Good thing neither one is

I admit you have to go to the trouble of opening the iPod (once your warranty is out, which is more likely than not since the batteries last pretty long), but it isn't hard at all and after that its plug and play.