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Help on MP3 player purchase.
fohfoh:
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--- Quote from: fohfoh on November 22, 2009, 10:11:30 AM ---AFAIK, the S9, P3 and Sony all support drag and drop. So it's easy to deal with and easy to share music if you want. (Can also store files on it too if you want.) and no 3rd party software garbage.
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I can't exactly disconfirm this statement, but I think Sony media will require Media Go (and with it, Quicktime) to be installed to freely transfer media to your device. Not sure if it's an actual requirement.
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You know what? That might be true. I'm not entirely sure though.
You can also consider waiting a little bit for the iAudio9. Sounds like it might be a lower price point by quite a margin vs the S9 and P3.
zherok:
--- Quote from: kostya on November 22, 2009, 05:01:01 PM ---fohfoh, you are lucky that you can actually take a look at those players at the store. The only things that I have seen at my local Best Buy (they have forced every other electronics store out of business) are iPods and Zunes (in terms of large capacity or video players). They used to have other players but apparently no one bought them.
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Those were my options locally too, for the most part. The local Walmart had some Sony players, but they were the lower end Walkman units (like this. And they're all usually non-functioning display units put behind glass anyway.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on November 22, 2009, 08:02:32 PM ---You can also consider waiting a little bit for the iAudio9. Sounds like it might be a lower price point by quite a margin vs the S9 and P3.
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At $169 it's only $30 less than an S9. The 8gb model is supposed to be priced at $129, but I'm willing to pay $200 for the better video player to make the upgrade more substantial over my RCA M42. I can't quite justify shelling out an extra $100 for something I'm just going to watch old Kurosawa films off of on the bus, but the Sony would have been a consideration otherwise. Wireless would have been nice, but almost any situation I have access to wireless outside home, I can just use my laptop instead. The S9 seems to trump it on battery life too, which is nice for not having to charge the thing every day.
Ordering an S9, although again that Sony X Walkman is tempting. $199.99 flat off Amazon, and using some free trial for their "Prime" service they waive shipping and send it to me in three days. Not bad. =)
Xiong Chiamiov:
I'm a fan of Creative players, myself, but there aren't any that do games or that nonsense, that I'm aware of.
Just stay with Asian manufacturers and you'll be fine. America certainly doesn't know how to make PMPs.
zherok:
The Zen X-Fi 2 seems pretty nice, and the 16gb model is only $139.99 at the moment. But I think the battery life and better screen on the S9 has sold me.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: zherok on November 23, 2009, 01:19:01 AM ---The Zen X-Fi 2 seems pretty nice, and the 16gb model is only $139.99 at the moment. But I think the battery life and better screen on the S9 has sold me.
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The S9 is really, really nice looking. If it supported soft-subbed Matroska files I'd replace my Zen in a heartbeat. :) Someday...
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