Mp3 Player Help

[Alex Pelan]

Heres my opinion:
Although I'm personally an Ipod guy, you can get a Rio Karma for 250-300. It got the PCworld best in class award, so it has some things going for ti. Also, for around that same price, you can get Ipod Mini, which has less space, but is smaller. Also, a little more expensive is 15GB ipod. however, i would not get 15, as if you go to 20 gb, then you get free dock and carry case, etc. So, those three are in your price range. Of those three, I recommend the Rio, and if you're willing to dish out extra, consider the Iriver IHP 120 and the Ipod 20 gb. One warning: THe iriver does not read the codec on purchased music, its one major drawback.

[Nastay]

JAH, i think that you have answered your own question, just go get the Dell thing. Support your loyalties, they have been good to you, pay them back, buy something else from them.

Now, i have to say that i would NEVER even consider buying a Dell product, and i have NEVER heard of someone so satisfied with there stuff.... sooner or later you will find out way. Oh, and sure they fixed their mistake, but the reason people hate dell so much is because they have so many issues with there stuff that it became practical to have door to door service calls, don't think thats cheap, they think if they can get you to like them for it, youll buy another product from them.

Yes i am a Mac user, and wouldn't have it any other way. (By the way, my current Mac here is almost 8 years old, still running strong with Mac OSX, never had any problems with it at all... except its almost 8 and apple doesn't support it, so i had to hack OSX on it with XpostFacto)

I am getting an iPod very shortly, i am just waiting to apple's world wide dev conference to see if they update the iPod, otherwise i am getting a 40GB iPod for use as an iPod and a portable HD. But if i didn't have 500 to blow on it i would get the 15GB ipod. iPod mini isn't worth it, 4GB is a lot of music (around 2 days of 192 AAC), and for $50 more you can get a 15GB iPod, if you ever fill that you need to watch for the RIAA on your back... think about how much money that would be if you bought all that...

Now that you have heard that bias information, go back and reread the first part of my post.

later

[Ryan F.]

I have a flash iriver player...and about the codec on purchased music...it's the way you upload it that makes the difference. You need your program to upload in WMA or MP3 form...for a while I was using itunes to upload in AAC....and it couldn't play that. I'm very satisfied with my iriver.

[Cory]

I have an Archos Jukebox Multimedia. It's out of your pricerange (and needs, it plays back and records video and pictures), but I like the look of the other Archos players as well.

Check out ebay for Archos, you can get some great deals like this

Cory

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Cory

Check out ebay for Archos, you can get some great deals like this

Woah, that's a better deal than most MP3 players... crazy