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I'm considering buying an I Pod from Ebay and every time I think I have a good deal, I find out, I would be bidding for 'a link to buy an I Pod for £20'.

Does anyone else find they have this problem?

Ashman wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
> I've hardly bought anything fancy since September last year
>
> Christmas money?

Um... no, mostly stuff I have sold over Amazon.

I said using USB.

Using Firewire, it's far faster. As in 8 albums in the same time.

What I'm saying is, 3 minutes is hardly anytime at all.

Cyclone wrote:
> The Zen is a worthy competitor. It's only crashed on me a few times -
> nothing drastic, nothing serious, and mine's an older model. Plus,
> the transfer speeds, even on USB, are very quick. I mean, what the
> hell else are you going to do in the 3 minutes it takes to transfer
> an album?!

3 Minutes?!

It honestly took me around 3 minutes to transfer 8 albums onto my iPod the other week, via Firewire. The only thing I have to wait for is the CD-ripping as that is a little slow at times for some reason (even though I've turned error correction off).

mattributé wrote:
> If I was you, I'd purchase an MP3 player that has the option for
> external memory storage (i.e 128MB Smart media cards). A lot cheaper,
> and it means you don't have, like, 15 GB of wasted space.

Eh? You musn't have much music...

The Zen is a worthy competitor. It's only crashed on me a few times - nothing drastic, nothing serious, and mine's an older model. Plus, the transfer speeds, even on USB, are very quick. I mean, what the hell else are you going to do in the 3 minutes it takes to transfer an album?!

Forest Fan wrote:
> I've hardly bought anything fancy since September last year

Christmas money?

How've you got all this money if you're sat behind a computer all day every day on here?

That's what confuses me.

There's a risk of theft with anything you buy - it's wether you're stupid enough to walk around wish the iPod on display or if you sensibly put it in a pocket.

Only the weak get robbed.

iPods are smaller and lighter than their competitors. It's all about image. I'm glad I bought one and I don't have 15Gb of wasted space. It's a 15Gb unit with around 9GB used up. Still haven't put all my albums on yet.

I had a Creative Zen, and although they are cheaper, I found it to be prone to crashing an awful lot. Also, the transfer sppeds in an ipod are much faster than others, you don't have to type in the track names or anything as they are pulled from Gracenote CDDB (online music information database). Oh, and don't forget the swish touch-sensitive buttons and dial...

What about this Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB, for just £216.21? Looks almost as good as an I pod too.