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Originally Posted by Abecedary
Your next post goes on to list the specs from the J&R site, but you seem to be missing a few key points. First, the 600 includes a touchscreen. That right there is enough to warrant the extra $25 price increase over the 505. Along with that, you get highlighting/notes and a dictionary. Plus it still includes the SD/MSPro card slots. The 600 is pretty much the 700 without the light.
Also, I have no idea why you're calling AAC a Sony-proprietary format. It's an MPEG-approved audio format (basically the successor to MP3), so IMHO including it makes way more sense than using WMA (talk about proprietary) or OGG (talk about zero market penetration). And supporting 'unsecured' Word means that it won't read password-protected Word files, which get used a fair bit in certain industries.
Finally, as has been pointed out by several people already, the body of the 505 most certainly is aluminum. But considering you can't tell the difference between metal and plastic, I shouldn't be surprised that you've missed so much else.
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Yeah, copied what the website had to offer.
Forgot the touchscreen.
AAC is from Sony, and you basically only find it in Sony gear, (or perhaps in Macs).
There's no gadget I have that plays back AAC (save my first generation MD).
I'd not really say it makes more sense than wma.
WMA has superior sound quality in the lower than 64kbit bitrates, and is often used to encode audio books very compact (32, 44, and 48!
The only thing I knew was that AAC had higher bitrate encodings.
As far as AAC being the successor to MP3, far from!
I believe .ogg is much more like that! In fact, .ogg is open source, meaning that it's free to add, and superior in soundquality to MP3.
On average .ogg is 3/2nd the size per quality from mp3 (160kbit mp3 sounds very close to 112kbits .ogg).
I believe more devices out there play back .ogg than .aac (save perhaps Mac/Apple gear like iphones etc... I have very few knowledge of those devices).