Krogers/Jewel-Osco stores all across the midwest have been using Pay-By-Touch since at least December of last year in all of their stores. Why is this just now getting known?
actually before the iPod Mini was even announced they had polls on Nomadworld.com asking what colors people would like to see on future Creative mp3 players
im also on mediacom and for $40 a month we only get 1500/128 which is a pile of crap. thats also put on top of the fact that theres constantly something wrong or their service is out completely. they have been doing better though
but still i'd rather have @Home around again. $35 for 1500/1500 that was always up (as long as you didnt get their crappy 3com modem) was a great service. mediacom blows
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people ARE doing it with other players. the writer of the article just happened to take the time to write somethin about it.
i do it all the time when i find people with zens, jb3s, any iriver models, etc. and believe me this has been going on for a long time
thats only whats a better online music store.
if you were to ask "whats the better media player" i'll tell you right now winamp will come out ahead. have you used beta 5? it does everything itunes can do (except the store of course) but uses less then 10mb of memory while doing it (even with visuals on!)
i wouldnt mind paying for music but im not paying 99cents per song, esp songs i can only use with apple software and hardware unless i were to put it on a cd then rip again. but still 99cents.....thats still to much in my opinion for any song
if you do a search on microsoft.com you'll find an article from way back when Media2go was first announced saying Creative will have a player based off of the technology. i'd assume thats what will replace the Zen/jb3 lines
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/ipo d/measurements.html
as you can see here the ipod takes some serious drops.
other comparrisons here
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/ipo d/
i dont think its so much that it doesnt scratch but that we all know plasitc is nowhere near as resistant as steel. take my antec for example, i mean i could kick this thing and ya it'll take a pretty nasty scratch and prolly mess up my stuff inside but i gurantee you it wont have a huge dent or crack in it. now take the plasitc case of the mac and do that. bam instant broken case
well not really.
go with a manufacturer like sager and just put pc parts inside a laptop body and voila you have yourself a laptop with a 3.2ghz p4, DDR400, and a 7200rpm wd harddrive along with a 128mb Ati 9600 in it.
and to top that off it not only actually comes with a carrying case and 32mb mp3 player, its $10 less then the 17 powerbook (the model im talking about is a 16 so really not much diff)
they dont need a mascot!!! my school doesnt have a mascot. our team name is the Maroons and we had a mascot........till the NCAA sued us.....
if you know what a maroon is then you'd understand
actually ati has official linux drivers as of last november.
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-li nux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+970 0+PRO&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next
the best part about the nomad line is that you actually do hit the rated battery life. i pull 12.5hrs on my firewire zen while its rated at 12. the guys over in creatives firmware department do their job and do it extremely well. the new beta firmware for the old jb1's has people hitting anywhere from 5-7hrs while its rated at 4.
note: EAX does hurt battery life. when using EAX with a playlist of VBR MP3s each with an average of 3:30min playtime at a volume of 20 it drags battery life down to about 5 hours. also be aware that 20 on the zen is loud (goes up to 25!!). mose people dont use eax and dont turn the zen up to high levels so really it works out.
ya but its the biggest of the zen/ipod/archos and has by far the longest boot time. up until the new ipods came out it had the lowest battery life (now both ipod and archos have 8hrs vs zens 14hrs). its got the lowest sound quality of the 3. and lastly the support is on par with what creative had back in the sblive days (aka pretty much nonexistant and sucks when you do talk to a person)
i dropped my zen down a flight of stairs, didnt skip at all. i dropped my zen from about 5-6ft up onto a concrete floor and it didnt skip. the zen is a very durable device compared to the ipod which can be scratched while running a dull fingernail over it
they didnt discontinue the rebate as they stopped selling the firewire model all together. now its just the usb2.0 version that can be found as low as $257 shipped
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Krogers/Jewel-Osco stores all across the midwest have been using Pay-By-Touch since at least December of last year in all of their stores. Why is this just now getting known?
actually before the iPod Mini was even announced they had polls on Nomadworld.com asking what colors people would like to see on future Creative mp3 players
im also on mediacom and for $40 a month we only get 1500/128 which is a pile of crap. thats also put on top of the fact that theres constantly something wrong or their service is out completely. they have been doing better though but still i'd rather have @Home around again. $35 for 1500/1500 that was always up (as long as you didnt get their crappy 3com modem) was a great service. mediacom blows
people ARE doing it with other players. the writer of the article just happened to take the time to write somethin about it. i do it all the time when i find people with zens, jb3s, any iriver models, etc. and believe me this has been going on for a long time
thats only whats a better online music store. if you were to ask "whats the better media player" i'll tell you right now winamp will come out ahead. have you used beta 5? it does everything itunes can do (except the store of course) but uses less then 10mb of memory while doing it (even with visuals on!) i wouldnt mind paying for music but im not paying 99cents per song, esp songs i can only use with apple software and hardware unless i were to put it on a cd then rip again. but still 99cents.....thats still to much in my opinion for any song
if you do a search on microsoft.com you'll find an article from way back when Media2go was first announced saying Creative will have a player based off of the technology. i'd assume thats what will replace the Zen/jb3 lines
if its EXACTLY like it is on the mac then it obviously is extremely overrated.
only thing from your list winamp5 beta is missing is the music store and i refuse to pay 99cents for DRM music i cant play on other programs
hey i found the problem!!! you're using a crappy pos celeron
ya i actually think it requires qt installed in order to work
WOW all i can say itunes just met its death. winamp 5 looks like it'll be dominant at its final release. winamp 3 is was a joke
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http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/
here we see the ipod cant perform lows and takes some serious hits
heres some other comparrisons
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/ipo d/measurements.html
as you can see here the ipod takes some serious drops.
other comparrisons here
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/ipo d/
i dont think its so much that it doesnt scratch but that we all know plasitc is nowhere near as resistant as steel. take my antec for example, i mean i could kick this thing and ya it'll take a pretty nasty scratch and prolly mess up my stuff inside but i gurantee you it wont have a huge dent or crack in it. now take the plasitc case of the mac and do that. bam instant broken case
well not really. go with a manufacturer like sager and just put pc parts inside a laptop body and voila you have yourself a laptop with a 3.2ghz p4, DDR400, and a 7200rpm wd harddrive along with a 128mb Ati 9600 in it. and to top that off it not only actually comes with a carrying case and 32mb mp3 player, its $10 less then the 17 powerbook (the model im talking about is a 16 so really not much diff)
they dont need a mascot!!! my school doesnt have a mascot. our team name is the Maroons and we had a mascot........till the NCAA sued us..... if you know what a maroon is then you'd understand
i just wanna see a dual 2ghz G5 vs a dual 1.8ghz Opteron
actually ati has official linux drivers as of last november. http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-li nux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+970 0+PRO&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next
ya a 1/8" minijack to RCA output works just fine with the zen and ipod.
the best part about the nomad line is that you actually do hit the rated battery life. i pull 12.5hrs on my firewire zen while its rated at 12. the guys over in creatives firmware department do their job and do it extremely well. the new beta firmware for the old jb1's has people hitting anywhere from 5-7hrs while its rated at 4. note: EAX does hurt battery life. when using EAX with a playlist of VBR MP3s each with an average of 3:30min playtime at a volume of 20 it drags battery life down to about 5 hours. also be aware that 20 on the zen is loud (goes up to 25!!). mose people dont use eax and dont turn the zen up to high levels so really it works out.
ya but its the biggest of the zen/ipod/archos and has by far the longest boot time. up until the new ipods came out it had the lowest battery life (now both ipod and archos have 8hrs vs zens 14hrs). its got the lowest sound quality of the 3. and lastly the support is on par with what creative had back in the sblive days (aka pretty much nonexistant and sucks when you do talk to a person)
its not meant for just mp3s. creative and apple both realize that people dont have 30 and 60gigs of mp3s. thats why they double as portable harddrives
i dropped my zen down a flight of stairs, didnt skip at all. i dropped my zen from about 5-6ft up onto a concrete floor and it didnt skip. the zen is a very durable device compared to the ipod which can be scratched while running a dull fingernail over it
they didnt discontinue the rebate as they stopped selling the firewire model all together. now its just the usb2.0 version that can be found as low as $257 shipped
ipod would fit in your pocket for jogging with the nomads added size its a good idea to use the belt clip on the case