Apple's ipods v MP3 players.
ipod players are made by Apple.
Are they any different from any other MP3 players that are made by various other companies and seem much cheaper?
anotheoldgit Sat 22/11/08 16:40
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The iPod has become quite established now and a large number of extras can be bought for it like fancy cases, docking stations etc.
We've bought an 80GB solid state (no moving parts) Creative ZEN from play.com for £99 and it plays DivX movies, FM radio, microphone, picture viewer, MP3 player and more and we love it whereas the iPod doesn't have as many features, has a smaller screen and costs about £250 for the same capacity.
Part of it is the name - Apple. Creative are experts at sound cards for computers and are well established in that area.
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80GB solid state? I think your numbers are off.
The iPod was the original successful portable mp3 player. Others had tried before, but failed. The iPod beats everything else for a few reasons. Mainly, it's easy to use (combined with iTunes so syncing is easy), and the system is well-designed (for example, the scroll wheel being far superior to anything else for browsing your music).
It also looks very nice, which helped it become popular with kids that wanted a fashionable item.
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Zebuk, as fo3nix says - check your figures! If I could get such a device I would get it tomorrow. Have you got a link to the device - was it an old end-of-line model?
On Play.com they have this at rrp of £99:-
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4- /3471519/Creative-Zen-8GB-MP3-Video-Player/Pro duct.html
even 32GB is £134.99
48GB is £199.99
I would expect 80GB to be a hard drive not solid state.
Solid state drives of 80GB are over £500 (otherwise, the new Netbooks would probably install one).
The only 80GB Zen I could find was on ebay and the spec was a bit dodgy (and was a hard drive anyway).
Put us out of our misery with a link?
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