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Ipod Classic or mp3?

  • 01-06-2010 9:37pm
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    Woow_Aqualung
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    I'm looking to buy a new music player. I currently have a Creative Zen Nano Plus. It only stores 1Gb and I'm looking for something with a bigger memory. A friend has an Ipod Classic 5th generation. It stores 30Gb, well enough memory, and has a nice feel to it and good sound. However I've heard that the batteries tend to break and cost a lot to replace and that itunes is sort of inconvinient. I have a budget of E100. To put it bluntly, I'm not very careful, and don't want an ipod Nano or anything as breakable.
    Cheers.
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    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,375 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    As far as I'm aware the batteries used by Apple at them moment are solid, priviously they had used some incredibly poor battery with a high failure rate but that was well over 5 years ago.

    If your budget is 100euro you won't get a classic unless you buy second hand, and based on your needs I think the classic might be overkill and suffer in terms of reliability. Why? because the ipod classic uses a HDD whereas just about every other DAP nowadays uses flash memory, HDD can break if you drop them (although I am more than aware that a drop is unlikely to kill an ipod, it does happen)

    I don't know if you actually need 30gb? I mean going from 1gb to 30 is a bit of a leap right! Anyway other than the classic you might want to look at Sony's cheaper range, definitely check out the Sandisk Sansa fuze and clip+ (which are the best sound DAPs available), forget about Creative - their products are the most complained about by users of this forum.


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