iPod Mini in Ireland for €269

kevinmcc

The Ipod minis are in Ireland now for €269 from the Irish apple store just updated today. I just ordered myself one The Apple Store Ireland

Marq

Ach! could you be bothered getting raped by Apple? when you could just do this

DerekD Goldfish

Jut got my self a Creative Labs 60GB NOMAD Zen Xtra MP3 WMA Player last week for €300 its damn good amazing being able to carry your entire collection around with you.

jozi

What other player are available with similar (better) spec and for a round the same spec?
I like the way it's small and 4gigs is plenty for me even thou i'd be able to fill it several times over.

Jozi

Selik

Screw the overrated Ipod, get one of these like I did and don't look back!!!

Sound quality is absolutely amazing as well - trust me.

jozi

Everyone's say they are good alright.
I like the small size of the mini i-pod, never seen one or the i-river thou.

Jozi

Agent Smith

Originally posted by Giles
Screw the overrated Ipod, get one of these like I did and don't look back!!!

Sound quality is absolutely amazing as well - trust me.

looks very intresting giles.....


me might purchase one....


i like the fm tuner dealie

steveland?

I've got one of these bad-boys but i dropped it in college and now it just squeeks and buzzes when i turn it on and won't load up.

Anyone know anywhere in dublin that would fix one of these (preferabely in the city centre area)?

RobertFoster

can't you send it back to amazon?

steveland?

nah i only used amazon to show yis the description.

i got it off some other uk website and i cant find any documentation for it or anything so i cant remember where.

it was quite a while ago. the yokes been discontinued and all by now

RobertFoster

email them and ask them if they have a place you can send it, or they have "contact" in Ireland that fix their products.

Marq

Originally posted by DerekD Goldfish
Jut got my self a Creative Labs 60GB NOMAD Zen Xtra MP3 WMA Player last week for €300 its damn good amazing being able to carry your entire collection around with you.

With the Creative can you sort by artist THEN album? As in I scroll through my artists, come to Sonic Youth, click the scroller and it expands to show me 11 albums which I can then scroll select though, or can I only search for albums through the album scroll?

Tusky

I ordered one of these, should be here monday morning !

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001FAP7W/qid%3D1089286972/026-6043485-0429254
Whoot

bambam

good news, you can buy replacement batteries for the irivers. This was something that was bothering me about their players

http://www.pdainternalbattery.com/irivermp3battery.html

joe_chicken

what the hell would you need an FM tuner for when you've got 40 GB of music????

tribble

The FM tuner on my IRiver 550 CD MP3 is brilliant.

I never expected it to be so good, most 'digital' tuners are noisy affairs with poor sensitivity, this one isn't.

BTW they are good when the battery is low but you still want music.

tribble

joe_chicken

Originally posted by tribble
The FM tuner on my IRiver 550 CD MP3 is brilliant.

I never expected it to be so good, most 'digital' tuners are noisy affairs with poor sensitivity, this one isn't.

BTW they are good when the battery is low but you still want music.

tribble

ok... good answer!

Tusky

Sometimes I just dont want to pick music to listen to - In that case I turn to the radio Doesnt happen often but now and then...

DerekD Goldfish

With the Creative can you sort by artist THEN album? As in I scroll through my artists, come to Sonic Youth, click the scroller and it expands to show me 11 albums which I can then scroll select though, or can I only search for albums through the album scroll?

You can scrool through artist, album or genre

segadreamcast

Think I'll just buy a mini for around 180eur when I'm in America next month...seems like the better option.

cormie

Just get it.

CuLT

Originally posted by joe_chicken
ok... good answer!

You also might want to hear the news. Which I often do if I'm on the bus or something.

Repli

you cant beat the mini for size/weight
Size: 3.6 inches by 2.0 inches by 0.5 inches
Weight:3.6 ounces

thesteve

Jut got my self a Creative Labs 60GB NOMAD Zen Xtra MP3 WMA Player last week for €300 its damn good amazing being able to carry your entire collection around with you.

What if you have a 150 GB collection, and growing...

leuler

Where can I get the 60g Zen for €300. I have been wanting to get one for a while.

ian25

The iriver may be good value ,but lets face it, the ipod looks far better .And besides,irish radio stations have more adds than music (slight exaggeration i know).I've had my 10gb ipod for a year and a half now and am well pleased with it .I don't have the battery problems others have had either.Still , €269 for the ipod mini with only 4gb seems a bit over the top

Marq

Originally posted by leuler
Where can I get the 60g Zen for €300. I have been wanting to get one for a while.

Ebay's your best bet, although I think Amazon are doing them cheap enough.

popinfresh

I've got that bulky 20gig MOS jukebox. I don't think I've ever used over 6 gigs of it at once. I reckon the I-pod mini is the best buy because 4gigs is like at least 60 albums. Most people wouldn't need more than 60 albums at one time. then again.... i've got 350 albums so i might as well have 20gigs

StickyMcGinty

i got the mini from ebay 3 moths ago...

[comic book guy] BEST PLAYER EVERRRRRRRRRR [/comic book guy]

Civilian_Target

I have a Rio Karma, and it's great. Best sound quality I've heard off pretty much anything, plays loads of formats, easy to use, long battery life and it's a good size too (20 gigs but it's only 2.7"x2.7"x.9"). Heres what I said about it one day when I was very bored.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158449&highlight=karma

Marq

My Nomad arrived today, it's lovely. Currently transferring 30gb of music onto it. Could be here a while.

Lenny

Is it possible to transfare your collection back to your harddrive from any of these players?

impr0v

Originally posted by thesteve
What if you have a 150 GB collection, and growing...

Is there that much music in the world!!!?!??

Marq

Originally posted by Lenny
Is it possible to transfare your collection back to your harddrive from any of these players?

With the Nomad, Yes, very easily, and unlike the Ipod you're not limited to syncing with one computer, so you can use it as a back-up. you can transfer files to and from any computer which has the software installed. and a simple crack lets you do it without the software (device shows up as a removable hardrive). Not sure about the iRiver. As far as I know with the ipod it is theoretically possible, but you have to set it as a portable hardrive and not as a player while you transfer the files, and this can only be done from the computer it is synced too. so if you want to transfer files, you can't listen to music with it until you've transferred them and brought it back to your computer again.

impr0v

Don't take my word for it, but from what I understand about the iRiver it is possible, as Windows recognises the iRiver as just a portable hard drive, so you can transfer back and forth at will.