Ipods / Irivers

Techless · 09-11-2004 10:03AM #1

Read in last weeks Business & Finance that these are going to be the hot presents for Christmas. It says that you can buy Irivers for less than € 100, which seems to be a lot cheaper than Ipods.
Can anyone advise where these may be available.

IrishMike · 09-11-2004 10:32AM

Any iriver for less than €100 is going to be a flash player not a hard drive based player
and is going to be 128mbs more than likely. Ipod is >10 gigs.
Not a fair comparison (if you were comparing them that is)
Iriver ihp120 is about 300euro ipod 20 gig is 350 as far as i remember (open to correction)

BadCharlie · 09-11-2004 10:38AM

Where is the best place to buy the ipods ? Thinking of getting this for december.

the corpo · 09-11-2004 12:51PM

if possible you only want to buy an ipod from the US and get someone to post it over.
the cost discrepancy between europe and the US is *shocking*

the 40gb is €309 from Apple US, and €549 from Apple Ireland.

even if you end up paying duty, and the most expensive postage it'll still be hugely cheaper.

Smellyirishman · 09-11-2004 12:59PM

Yep, make sure you get your iPod/River from America.

tuco · 09-11-2004 03:14PM

One thing about buying from the states - over there the warranties are typically 3 months, that's all they're obliged to give. If you buy over here you'll get 12. Generally worth the risk imo, but it can be a nasty surprise if you don't realise in advance...

the corpo · 09-11-2004 03:26PM

apple and hp provide the warranties though, and i think they're fine globally.
i registered my ipod online with hp and its fully covered

09-11-2004 05:34PM

tuco wrote:

One thing about buying from the states - over there the warranties are typically 3 months, that's all they're obliged to give. If you buy over here you'll get 12. Generally worth the risk imo, but it can be a nasty surprise if you don't realise in advance...

VERY dangerous, dropped my zen

about 2 weeks outside of that 3 month warranty, cost 2/3 the buying price to get it fixed.

segadreamcast · 09-11-2004 06:26PM

the corpo wrote:

if possible you only want to buy an ipod from the US and get someone to post it over.
the cost discrepancy between europe and the US is *shocking*

the 40gb is €309 from Apple US, and €549 from Apple Ireland.

even if you end up paying duty, and the most expensive postage it'll still be hugely cheaper.

40GB ipod's took a drop here recently - about 400 now. Not ideal, but better!

10-11-2004 09:52PM

NoelRock wrote:

40GB ipod's took a drop here recently - about 400 now. Not ideal, but better!

Really tempting fate there!

kinkstr · 10-11-2004 10:26PM

do yourself a favour and dont get an ipod,i have a creative muvo 4gb dat is now 250 euros in da shops and its absolutley tiny with a brilliant battery,i get 12-14 hours from 1 charge,creative also have the ZEN TOUCH which is 20gb for 279 euros which looks alot better than an ipod and beats it on price by miles(that will be kilometres if the government have anything to do with it)

Jammer · 10-11-2004 11:13PM

the Touch is only 20gb i think?

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