11-09-2012, 03:48 PM | #16 |
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Not Black Friday, but refurbished Ipod touch 4th gen on sale at Apple for limited time. 8 gb $129.00 32 gb $179. http://store.apple.com/us/product/FC...ouch-8gb-black Just ordered one to replace my 1st generation which I have loved.
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11-09-2012, 04:01 PM | #17 |
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The 32GB Nexus 7 finally showed up in a BF ad. Office Depot will be selling it for $230. Hope it'll be available online.
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11-09-2012, 04:15 PM | #18 | |
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Why wouldn't you just get one iPod that holds all of that? I have the iPod Classic with 160GB that I have pretty much everything I own on it. I have music, audiobooks, podcasts etc. Wouldn't one device with everything be much easier than multiple devices with limited capacity? I would think the price of the 160GB unit is much cheaper than paying for all those smaller capacity units too. The 160 iPod Classic is $250. Best Buy sells an 8GB clip for $60. I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something but that just doesn't make sense to me to have multiples instead of one bigger capacity device. |
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I'm in the 160 GB camp myself (the Classic is the only iDevice I own other than a laptop), but people's listening habits differ, therefore their tastes in appropriate hardware diverge. Truthfully, any device I own becomes a kind of mix tape no matter how sprawling the amount of storage. BTW: iRiver is coming out with a music player that plays 192kHz 24-bit FLAC files and looks to be a gorgeous successor to the iHP140: the AK100. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 11-09-2012 at 05:12 PM. |
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11-09-2012, 05:01 PM | #20 | |
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On sale, the 8gb players are around $40, and the 4gb around $30. If one breaks, I'm not out too much money, and I still have the memory card to use in another device. And I don't buy iStuff anyway. |
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11-09-2012, 05:13 PM | #21 |
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I have a player for my car, the back of the house (housework), and in the garage (yardwork). I like the fact that if something happens (stolen/dropped/water/etc) to one of them, then I don't feel too bad about it. I have a Samsung YP-P2, awesome for movies, music, make/receive calls through bluetooth, etc., but I don't use it anymore. I worried about leaving it somewhere, dropping it, etc.. So, it became a nice expensive little paper weight.
I am looking forward to picking up another clip zip during the sales. I got a good deal at Radio Shack last year. |
11-09-2012, 05:31 PM | #22 |
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The reason to have an old-school iPod was never the Apple aspect. You'd buy one refurbed and give it to your weird cottage-industry pals to perfect and mutate. One friend of mine used to confect special cables out of various precious metals and send them to me for the cost of the materials sans labor. Another would rewire it to bypass the internal amp and replace the body with bits of my personal choosing.
As popular as it remains, Apple gear isn't quite dominant enough to inspire that subcultural intensity any more, but the whole reason to buy one aside from storage used to be this: it was so mainstream that it was capable of becoming the strangest and most customized player of all, from idiosyncratic hardware to Rockboxed/Linuxed firmware. That said, the iHP-140 kicked its wee metal buttocks and was the only music player of its time to allow the use of an external DAC by means of an optical out and an ADC through its one-of-a-kind optical in. CatLady makes an excellent point about SDHC cards. It's rather nice to be able to remove the card when the player dies, and the possibility of expansion makes internal memory less significant. The AK-100 has a card slot as well. All of the high-end players from Korea and China have that same capability and all iPods suffer for not including it. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 11-09-2012 at 05:36 PM. |
11-09-2012, 06:13 PM | #23 |
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Do you use Audible for audiobooks? I used to have a Sansa, but for some reason I thought I couldn't run the Audibooks off the microSD card (it was a very small Sansa). So my only iThing is the iPod Classic so I can stuff it full of audiobooks and not have to worry about adding and removing books as I listen to them.
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11-09-2012, 06:28 PM | #24 | |
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This tablet is #1 on my list of BF purchases, so I'll be following it very closely. |
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11-09-2012, 06:40 PM | #25 | |
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Lawks ..... Mind you, if there was a bright yellow one ......... Mmmm ... paint ... mmmm... I wonder...... No, mustn't - already got 3 .... |
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11-09-2012, 06:44 PM | #26 | |
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11-09-2012, 06:46 PM | #27 | |
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My only quibble with the SanDisk people is their use of boring black and gray for the 8gb versions. Why only purty colors for the 4gb ones? |
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11-09-2012, 07:06 PM | #29 | |
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Additionally, the Clips offer a large feature set - MP3, WMA, Audible, Ogg, FLAC, AAC (Zip only), FM radio, voice & FM recorders, stopwatch (Zip only), mSD card slot. |
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11-09-2012, 07:08 PM | #30 |
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I listen to audible all the time on mine (+ and Zip). with books from three audible accounts and most on SD cards
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