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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i like my creative zen micro

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

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

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who cares about scratches? and the ipod has a KILLER eq!

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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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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.

ipods really do suck.

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

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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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6) Not edible.

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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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this is the biggest downside

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

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- hello and welcome glad u cud join us this is a state of trance episode blah blah blah
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- waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....the end
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i wish death on whoever owns that!

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