not worth it look for a cheaper alternative to an ipod man i think there a load of #e and not worth the cash and sony do good cd players i bought one for £140 top end of their range camre with cd editin software aswell light compact easy to use

hey, i dont have an Ipod, but, i wouldnt really want one, what is it, 40gigs of space that seems a little useless to me. i have a minidisc, one cd holds 320minutes of music, and i dont even use all of it, they are also around 150$ now, so, id say get a Minidisc

I heard that they had a battery problem with the iPods, did they fixed that yet? Also, it's not entirely skip-free, supposedly, as this thing use some kind of hardisk.

My collegues at work both have MP3 players (RCA I think?) that uses SecureDigital flash-memory stick. Those one you can really use to run, dance, etc, whatever, without any skipping, They're really cool, and they're way smaller than the iPods. One of them is like 2 1/2 or 3 inches long, and approx. 2 large.

We got one for my mom and she really likes it...I originally hated ipods just because they're made by apple, and for different reasons not liking Apple products at all...but the ipod seems quite good, it has a lot of features and should be easy to use. If you're getting an ipod I would just go for the regular 15gb model, that should be plenty for most people and they have more features than the mini ones.

If you take a look at that "nomad" jukebox, you'll see why I'm leaning towards that. Yes, it's much larger than many mp3 players, but is has a lot of space (can even store word documents and such for transfer, kinda like a massive floppy disk, that's the size of a hard drive). Also, it seems to have good quality sound, and is the same price as the cheapest iPod (regular, not mini).

I like that nomad mp3 player, because it has 60 GB. Also, the transfer for songs is 1 song per second (approx.). Also, it's more in my price range ($300 for the 60 GB version, about 250 for the 20 GB one), and I could use the non-music file storage as well. I'm going to go get that one once I can find all of my media play gift certificates .

I have an IRiver (don't know the model name), but it's 256 MGB, it's not that much, but it's well worth the money compared to an Ipod. Oh yeah, the manual says that it can hold up to 1,500 songs but does not say how long the average song should be so, I have about 4 albums and I deleted a lot of the songs off of it, so I could record off of the radio.

I'm pondering on buying an ipod currently also. I've only got a USB 1.1 port though, and for various reasons (mainly it's my mothers pc, and she won't have one mess with it!) I can't upgrade to a firewire or 2.0...I can still use an ipod, but apparently it's alot slower, anyone know HOW slow exactly? I heard that it's bad for the ipod to run for too long because it gets too warm etc.
I'd get a mini one, I mean, I really can't see me needing 10,000 songs!!

I have a 3g 40gb iPod. I absolutely love it. It is sturdy, cool and most importantly, sounds good.

I have dropped it twice onto concrete and it still works just fine.

To have most of my 3000+ cd collection with me at all times is a godsend. I used to travel with a bulky CD booklet with 200 CDs in it..... not any more!

You can also use the iPod as an external hard drive.

The only downside is that the battery has to be replaced eventually.

How much are the new batteries?

Originally posted by TallShaffer
How much are the new batteries?

I have heard that there are generic replacement kits that go for around $50 US and that Apple charges about $100 US to replace the battery. As my iPod is still fairly new, I have not done any real checking into the actual numbers though.

Cannonball? As in Cannonball Adderly? Or is it a store name?

So did you get one??????

iPods Rule

I found an ipod buddy go facefirst

Question for iPod owner: have you tried to listen to hit while you were activly moving ? (ie.: running, dancing, etc...)

I heard it isn't really skip free, because is uses discs.