they provided a gift from god and what do you do but gripe about it?! a SD-card is infinitely more valuable than any amount of onboard storage. dealnews has 8GB sd cards for $25, 16GB cards for $60. your 36gb player is $100 away. theres no way to fit all your music on 8GB but you can fit a respectable chunk (~90 hours at 192kbps). the big difference is that this unit would cost another two hundred dollars if you wanted to pack a hard drive or ton of flash into it (and the hard drive would reduce battery life / add weight / add size).
my question is, what is with all these MORON IDIOT MANUFACTURERS TOO STUPID TO PUT SD-CARDs into their gear? i bought a $70 piece of junk MP3 player after my first gen SoulPlayer mp3cd player finally went to the big scrap heap in the sky in 2001. its $70, has a UI from `96, gets 14 hours on a single AAA battery, has 128mb onboard, but it runs all the 4gb sd cards i plug in. i bought such a useless tragesty against usability and i bought it inspite of paying combined $180 for a player that only had 384 mb of memory because i knew it would be expandable, i knew it would keep pace for a long time. i would never consider buying a media player without good expandable memory. it was pretty common circa 2005 but recently there's been a dire dearth. in terms of value for $, there's absolutely no comparison to SD cards.
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they provided a gift from god and what do you do but gripe about it?! a SD-card is infinitely more valuable than any amount of onboard storage. dealnews has 8GB sd cards for $25, 16GB cards for $60. your 36gb player is $100 away. theres no way to fit all your music on 8GB but you can fit a respectable chunk (~90 hours at 192kbps). the big difference is that this unit would cost another two hundred dollars if you wanted to pack a hard drive or ton of flash into it (and the hard drive would reduce battery life / add weight / add size).
my question is, what is with all these MORON IDIOT MANUFACTURERS TOO STUPID TO PUT SD-CARDs into their gear? i bought a $70 piece of junk MP3 player after my first gen SoulPlayer mp3cd player finally went to the big scrap heap in the sky in 2001. its $70, has a UI from `96, gets 14 hours on a single AAA battery, has 128mb onboard, but it runs all the 4gb sd cards i plug in. i bought such a useless tragesty against usability and i bought it inspite of paying combined $180 for a player that only had 384 mb of memory because i knew it would be expandable, i knew it would keep pace for a long time. i would never consider buying a media player without good expandable memory. it was pretty common circa 2005 but recently there's been a dire dearth. in terms of value for $, there's absolutely no comparison to SD cards.