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Hi all,
Am off on hols later this month and rather than taking my personal CD player and suitcase full of CD’s with me I am think of picking up an i-Pod.
Does anyone know where to get the best deals on one in the UK? Not to bothered about the hard drive size would be quite happy with a 15GB, best I have found so far is £234.99 from Comet on line, although at £25 more the £259.99 20GB unit from Currys looks worth a punt.
Can anyone better these prices or point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Matt
Edited to add, just found a 20GB at Richer Sounds for £249.99 is this a good deal?
>>> Edited by MattW on Wednesday 2nd June 16:55
Am off on hols later this month and rather than taking my personal CD player and suitcase full of CD’s with me I am think of picking up an i-Pod.
Does anyone know where to get the best deals on one in the UK? Not to bothered about the hard drive size would be quite happy with a 15GB, best I have found so far is £234.99 from Comet on line, although at £25 more the £259.99 20GB unit from Currys looks worth a punt.
Can anyone better these prices or point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Matt
Edited to add, just found a 20GB at Richer Sounds for £249.99 is this a good deal?
>>> Edited by MattW on Wednesday 2nd June 16:55
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001AE42Y/ref=amb_asin-coop-1_91058/202-1758800-5303848
£235 amazon and free delivery
£235 amazon and free delivery
www.apple.com/uk/
Go to the Store, then look at:
- Refurbished Items (bottom right) or
- Old items (bottom left)
The Refurb store is only open on Wednesdays, and you need to set up your account before you can place an order, but there are quite a few on there with healthy discounts. take a browse now to understand the rules and general 'form'
Old items (they use a different term) are basically outdated models left in stock. Again, useful savings if you don't need the ultimate spec.
Go to the Store, then look at:
- Refurbished Items (bottom right) or
- Old items (bottom left)
The Refurb store is only open on Wednesdays, and you need to set up your account before you can place an order, but there are quite a few on there with healthy discounts. take a browse now to understand the rules and general 'form'
Old items (they use a different term) are basically outdated models left in stock. Again, useful savings if you don't need the ultimate spec.
Firewire is quicker - the 'old' Firewire 400 is still quicker than USB2, in real-life conditions.
I just read an article on maximising your battery. Top tips include:
- Upgrade the firmware from apple.com
- Use the Hold switch if you're not using the machine (stops it accidentally waking up if you knock it)
- Turn the backlight off
- Turn off the equalizer
- Don't skip songs (it works the hard drive)
I just read an article on maximising your battery. Top tips include:
- Upgrade the firmware from apple.com
- Use the Hold switch if you're not using the machine (stops it accidentally waking up if you knock it)
- Turn the backlight off
- Turn off the equalizer
- Don't skip songs (it works the hard drive)
I am thinking about getting an MP3 player. I am impressed by the i-pod and it is currently top of my list. I have a sister who lives in America, so I could get her to buy an i-pod and ship it over for a very reasonable price. Is it like PS2 games and DVDs with regions or will it work fine with my laptop?
plotloss said:
No trouble on regions etc, its truly global.
I finally relented on the iPod front, I have no use for one at all, but as far as machines go its one of the best.
Paid just over £150 with iTrip for a 20Gb which was a bit of a result...
Where did you get it from for that price? From reading reviews on amazon, there seem to be a few concerns about battery life and how easily it gets scratched. Apparently after a year or so the battery is dead and useless and some people were claiming only 5 hours life before needing to charge. Have you found any of this to have truth to it?
Will the software on the CD of an american version work fine or will I nedd to download the software?
Is it true it only comes packaged with firewire capabilities and you need to buy the USB lead?
chicane said:I've had a closer look at them.
I've done a bit of research and I'm considering an iRiver 20Gb player. Decent price, good remote, long battery life. Anyone got one?
The battery is fixed too, but iriver are said to be more tolerant to change it under warranty/replace it cheaper outside warranty than Apple.
The iriver has one knock-out criteria over all other hard disk-players: it accepts Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg) even with up to 500Kbps, which have the same quality as mp3 at the same bitrate, but with a considerable smaller file size.
CDex www.cdex.n3.net/ (amongst other software) converts CDs to Ogg Vorbis (amongst other formats).
www.allofmp3.com offers their files in Ogg Vorbis too.
The new H320 has a colour display, and allows you to pull pictures via USB from your digital camera, which is good when you only have a smaller memory card (~128MB), but you are on holiday for a week, and you plan to take 2GBs of pictures. Simply load the pictures to the mp3 player, when the card is full. Works as well with pulling songs from another mp3 player, when you meet a mate with good songs on it
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