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I have an ipod and let me tell you a few thigns. The biggest waste of money ever!! I love apple things, there designs are fab. Just i knew there was gonna be errors and my prediction was right.
1st of all i was so excited when i got it. The box it was in, even that was done in a good stylish order. Got my bro to add some songs on threw his comp. 1st night, it was the best birthday present ever. A week in, still was great tho the battery only lasted a few hours. Then i hadnt had time to use it for like a day and thats when my problems came. After you stop using it even after a day or two the ipod can mess up. Once i charged it bk up i started listening again, then after 30 mins it just CUT OFF. To fix this you have to format it threw comp. Then about 2 or 3 months later, the same problem occured. I had everything already updated on there, new firmware. this time round i couldnt prevent it. After aproxmently an hour and a half it would cut off.
For the money i paid, i got ripped off!!!! Not only that but it kept crashin mine, my brothers comps out. They have 3.2ghz comps and it says minium of 1.7ghz. My bro took some songs out of it and then at long last it PATCHED the problem up abit. Now i could listen to it for 3 hours!! Again it messed up so i went bk to 1 and 1/2 hours
I guess it was good to show off but listening to the ipod for a 2 hours a day and showing it off is not worth £300.00. As you all know the ipod last for 18 months then you need to order a new battery which cost upto £70-£120 and have to send the ipod back to apple. Mine is on its way out, and i mostly likely wont buy the new battery.
If i had a 2nd chance, i would either wait for the new ipod which you've just shown or get the jukebox. My oldest brother is gonna buy the jukebox and for the money; its WELL worth it. The new ipod is gonna contain a new different battery (there crappy 18 month battery, wasnt there fault completely. It was the people they got the batterys from.) which will keep you listening to music for atleat 9 hours a day. The eternal battery will last atleat over 2 yrs. Plus the new ipod will cost around the same price as the jukebox.
From my bad experience i would proberly give the NEW ipod a chance, only after seeing what my brothers jukebox is gonna be like!!
[ This Message was edited by: $hé®îNghÀm3:16 on 2004-07-30 12:39 ]
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Posted: 2004-07-30 13:29:32
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Thats very unfortunate! Mine is problem free and sometimes I dont listen to it for days and its ok :-)
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Posted: 2004-07-30 15:57:20
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but even the battery time at its best isnt that great considering players like the M3L get upto 35 hours! i was working in Dixons a while back and found a lot of people returned their ipods within a year due to mechanical faults and poor battery life. However, i would like to see how his new ipod turns out.
Twista
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Posted: 2004-07-31 12:43:45
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have you finaly decided what your new mp3 is gonna be??
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Posted: 2004-08-05 01:46:23
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well i know its not going to be a ipod of any shape or form.
i am tempted by the Iriver ihp-140 as it has had a price drop. However, i am waiting for information on that creative touch player(dissucussed previously in this thread).
its out of
- ihp 140
-that creative touch
-Iaudio M3L
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-05 12:15:34
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Nice to know you aint gettin the ipod
... ahh well ,mine is about to die, but to be onest i aint used it the same ever since!!
How many songs do you think you'll wanna put on your new mp3??
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Posted: 2004-08-05 15:58:03
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the lowest HD i want is 20 gig, i would consider 40gig if the price is right.
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-05 16:12:30
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I know that this may a little off the topic but would you consider sony's hi MD. It is a minidisc but it has 1 gig disks which cost around a fiver. It can be used as a storage device aslo. However you do have to convert your music into their own format (ATRAC3) but there are reasonable compressio rates. If you would like check this page,
http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-NH1.html it should give you a better idea.
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Just an idea.
[ This Message was edited by: below24 on 2004-08-20 12:01 ]
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Posted: 2004-08-20 12:55:18
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You've probably seen this thread, but in case you didn't and would like to comment:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=66141
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Posted: 2004-08-20 16:22:40
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@below24
thanks for the suggestion, but i'm really looking for a large HD player. I have a lot of songs and i dont want the hasstle of having to keep changing disks. Thanks neway!
@Jabe
thanks for the link.. i have posted my views there.
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-20 23:48:35
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