MP3 Players

[IronWolf]

San Disk has been heavily discounting their products lately. I'm tempted to get the SanDisk Sansa e250 from Amazon.com.

This is the one I have been considering. I need to hurry up and make up my mind, about time to get that Christmas list done!

 

[Ranger REG]

For those interested parties, check out IGN's review of the new Microsoft Zune -

http://gear.ign.com/articles/746/746325p1.html


Side note: If and when a touch-screen iPod hits, that may be the end for me. Apple may have me on board for a long time. I resisted getting an iPod until recently and it may just get worse if they have the better tech.

Would be even better if they added an FM tuner.

Not that I would go out of my way (or everyone standing in my heavyset way, be it ages 1-100) to get an iPoop.

 

[Mycanid]

I've also heard good things about the iRiver range.

Just to let you know Rh ... I own a 20gb refurbed iRiver H10.

Now there are many things to knock about it. But I have found over time that it is in fact EXACTLY what I was looking for at the price. I got it for about $140 at the time, I think.

BUT ... to get it to work how I wanted to I had to use third party software written by a private person. That said, it works beautifully and as if it were an external hard drive! (The third party software provides the "organizing principle" for the player's "O.S." to "see" the data.)

I personally would not get an iRiver H10 or even the H320/340 series. HOWEVER, it might be very worth you while to look into the old H120 or H140! People rave and rave over these older models.

All this said, I have owned a 4gb silver iPod mini in the past (I gave it away as a gift to a friend when I upgraded) and never had any problems with it. What most seem to have problems with (who do complain about it, that is) is the iTunes software proper.