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DJ Cinos
official ta furhead

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Inside the reactor

The 5 downsides of an iPod

Having had a 20 gb one for a while now, I feel I can tell you the bad sides of it...

1) Scratches. Seriously, it scratches if I clean it with a super-soft cloth meant for cleaning stuff that scratches easily. It scratches if you breath upon it.

2) iTunes + Quicktime killlaargh kombo.

3) Sound quality is good, but bass frequencies are not really "full".

4) Player -> computer music transfer? Forget it, not without external software.

5) Doesn't offer many features. Not talking about radio and that, because nobody listens to the radio, but an equalizer, a recorder...?

Yeh. So I've decided to sell mine and buy the iAudio X5V instead - that's way cheaper than the iPod, coated in metal, supposedly with better sound, and lots more "stuff" - except radio, which I don't want.

Any more downsides, or do you disagree with these? Let's hear!

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Dec-12-2005 14:39 Finland

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citric_acid
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Montana

i like my creative zen micro

only the battery is lame... gotta get a new one

Dec-12-2005 14:41 United States

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montana
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: södertälje. sweden

i'm a get an ipod now just because you said it sucks

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ivanbee
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Registered: Aug 2005
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who cares about scratches? and the ipod has a KILLER eq!

Dec-12-2005 14:48

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DJ Cinos
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Inside the reactor

quote:
Originally posted by ivanbee
who cares about scratches? and the ipod has a KILLER eq!

Please make your sarcasm a bit more apparent next time... I thought you were serious about the second bit for a while there.

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Dec-12-2005 14:49 Finland

Ted Promo
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Registered: Jun 2005
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quote:
Originally posted by DJ Cinos
Please make your sarcasm a bit more apparent next time... I thought you were serious about the second bit for a while there.

That's the point.

Dec-12-2005 15:04

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Lepanto
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: The Height of New Colossus

ipods really do suck.

-battery life is utter shit and it dies after about half a year.

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Dec-12-2005 15:05 United States

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DJ Cinos
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quote:
Originally posted by Lepanto
ipods really do suck.

-battery life is utter shit and it dies after about half a year.

That latter part isn't true. I've owned mine for longer than that and notice no decline in battery capacity.

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Dec-12-2005 15:13 Finland

Ygrene
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Totergefuttert

The 6 downsides of an iPod

6) Not edible.

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Lepanto
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Registered: Jul 2005
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quote:
Originally posted by DJ Cinos
That latter part isn't true. I've owned mine for longer than that and notice no decline in battery capacity.

yes it is true. i work with them

last week, my friend who got his ipod about 8 months ago, kept charging it at work and i was liek what are you doing? he's like the battery doesn't work for over 5 hours or so. so he charged it and let the music keep playing (note: without touching any buttons that drain more energy) and about 6 hours later when we were closing it was dead as fucking dead.

not to mention that there were other cases all over the web, including, in reviews and even threads here in the CORe about it, brohan.

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Dec-12-2005 15:24 United States

Azz3D
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Registered: Jul 2002
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this is the biggest downside

http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultof...ntry_id=1301656

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