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5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the getting-off-the-hype-train dept.

TommyH1000 writes "CNet has posted an article with five reasons not to buy an iPod. " The article really just shows the major shortcomings with the iPod (Battery, Cost, Moving Parts etc) and gives several alternatives. A great summary of the major things going on in the portable MP3 player market.

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  1. Here's my low tech solution. by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rip all my CDs and then burn them back onto CDRs. You can fit like 12 CDs on one CDR in MP3 format. I have a wallet case when I travel and I manage to pack the music of 144 CDs with me that way. Best Buy has portable CD players that they sell for 30.00 that read MP3s and there you go, the cheap solution. When I get my cut of this money that the Nigerians are transferring to me though an iPod is the first thing on my list!

  2. Re:Most of these objections are invalid by JayPee · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can replace them. You don't even have to send them to Apple.

    Go here: http://www.ipodbattery.com/

  3. Re:Ogg Vorbis sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And your music collection is only ever on your "digital jukebox"? You don't understand bitrate peeling. It lets you encode things at a super high quality to stay on your hard drive (say with 5.1 sound), but then strip it down on the fly as you transfer it to your "digital jukebox" or email it to a friend or stream it on the internet to a lower bitrate and fewer channels. And, not everyone plugs their "digital jukebox" into headphones. You could plug it into a real speaker set, or a sound system.

  4. Looks like they really had to stretch by nocomment · · Score: 5, Informative

    It looks like they really had to stretch to find 5 reasons. "choice in music stores", look, it doesn't matter, the fact is that they still cost $.99.

    The skipping while playing is pretty iffy, because they are suggesting that the flash buffer is completely empty before the HD spins up to refill it, which is completely untrue. It spins up long before it's empty to fill up the buffer. A lot like the way burning a cd works (only different ;-). Still, it's nice to see someone being objective about it.

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  5. Re:The Non-replacable battery is a showstopper by squarefish · · Score: 5, Informative

    just look here

    actually, I didn't even know about this till I saw it in someone's earlier post in this story.

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  6. Replacement batteries for iPod higher capacity too by gricholson75 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Clicky Clicky