While I agree fully with you there, I have to say I bought an iPod classic, simply because I couldn't find a mp3 player for the same price as the iPod and with the same amount of storage at that time in Europe. If I had a choice, I'd give it a though, but when the only option is a Sony with 16GB* just 50EUR cheaper as the 80GB classic, it's obviously what I'll will pick if I need space.
*not accurate, as I don't remember exactly, but I know there wasn't a single mp3 player past 20GB except for the iPod at the time I bought mine.
That said, the iPod serves me well for what it is a mp3 player and a portable drive, nothing fancy.
Sweat is another enemy of players. Some sweat so much, that the players just drawn in it thus rendering it "kaput". This, albeit not the only solution, is perfect for those people. And trust me, I know a guy who went through 10 players from Apple, Sony, Creative, etc. in one year before he picked up a water proof one, which can finally cope with his sweating problem.
There's so many languages missing, so an update really does nothing, or maybe Apple thinks we should only listen to the artist coming from the countries their player supports language wise. That said, I don't like the display-less design anyway, so this isn't phasing me a bit, shame for those who bought it tho.
In all those 3 stories I read comments about how Macs are of better build quality, have better hardware and whatnot. Frankly it means squat. The PCs in those commercials are more or less in the same basket with Macs, performance wise so the extra amount Apple demands is no way justified, they might be a tad faster, still not that price faster.
And then Apple boys come in spouting how Macs have better screens, how you can do graphics job better on the Mac, and then I laugh and point them to an Eizo ColorEdge and I guess then they answer themselves. All monitors are crap for serious detail work bare a few, and if you're in that industry, you work with the best anyway. Besides what idiot would work on a laptop when he's doing graphics, sure for fun or mind storming, and for that, I have a HP eltiebook, so I can sketch whatever comes to my mind at any give point.
My Omega Automatic (Geneve Dynamic) serves me fine, though it shows dents of time. It's been worn from the day it was bought and it has a pretty worn look by now. I've to say it was never serviced from the day it was bought, ought to be some 20+ years if not 30 (don't really have the date and papers anymore, nor a clue when it was actually made).
It's also loosing minutes a day which in few weeks tends to be 10+ minutes of being late, so I guess it's pretty banged up inside, so I ought to get it refurbished, but I just can't make myself give it away for few weeks, I really love that watch, no matter that it probably one of the cheapest Omega models out there (also don't have a clue about pricing :)
XP is probably as tad faster. I'm running 7 and I'm not going back to XP. Vista was kinda crap, but this, this runs flawlessly. Support from major companies will slowly die-out for XP, so essentially you will be forced to upgrade to 7 anyway, which in all honesty isn't a bad thing, looking at how good the beta/RC versions run.
Everyone should just block sales on products that have non-removable batteries. There's some countries in the EU already that is blocking this since 30th July 2008. At that time it said, that old products may still be sold, but new ones are completely banned, so I wonder if I'll find this thing in a store now.
My sweat destroyed two shuffles and many other products. I had to buy a Speedo Aquabeat, which is a mp3 player for swimmers, and this one actually survives my sweating (figures). It's 1GB and it serves the purpose.
And talking to fellow sport friends, they also had the same problem with sweat getting inside their players and earphones, effectively destroying them. So if you're lucky and don't sweat much, guess the shuffle is fine, others a water-proof player is the only solution.
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