The Microsoft Zune

[chriswill]

They die to often, I have had 4 now and its put me off a little.

Although I notice there is a 80GB model now.

 

[jæd]

They die to often, I have had 4 now and its put me off a little.

Although I notice there is a 80GB model now.

What do you do to them...? I've had two and both get used about 6 hours a day and an hour* in the gym every other day... I only got the second becuase I was in the New York Apple store and aliens told me to buy it.

*Ok... 45 mins. Or so

 

[tarannau]

They die to often, I have had 4 now and its put me off a little.

Although I notice there is a 80GB model now.

Buy a nano if you're that demanding with them - solid state memory's always going to be much more reliable.

Anything with a hard drive in it is liable to fail comparatively easily - one big drop and its liable to be over. I suspect that failure rates between Creative, Apple and all are pretty similar - all the hds come from one of two manufacturers.

I've gone through 2 ipods myself in 3/4 years, although the second one still limps along between hd crashes. As much as I want the higher capacity I don't think I'll be buying a hard drive player again.

 

[chriswill]

I might just buy a CD walkman.

Massive battery life (comparitivley), good sound quality and cheapish to buy.

You can pick them up for around 30 notes these days.

 

[jæd]

I might just buy a CD walkman.

Massive battery life (comparitivley), good sound quality and cheapish to buy.

You can pick them up for around 30 notes these days.

Means you have to carry around CDs, and unless you get decent head-phones then there won't be much increase in sound quality...

 

[chriswill]

I have some shure e3c's and some bose triports.

The one i'm looking at has mp3 playback but then that defeats the object of having better sound quality.

I use my tunes for work (postie) so portability is not a massive issue seeing I carry a fucking big bag everywhere.

I just feel Imight be getting the best of both worlds, good soud quality from original CD's or the larger storage option of an mp3 cd if needed.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How long is the battery life on a cd walkman these days? The latest nano reaches 24 hours...

 

[chriswill]

41 If you screw on 1AA along with the Lithium one