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keeping pace.

so, i'm thinking about getting an iPod of some sort. i know, i'm seriously lagging behind in the technology department -- which is odd for me, i know. i love gadgets, and so does Nala, as evidenced by our lusts over the finest all-computerized touch-screen washing machines.

my dad used to say if it had a button or a knob, i wanted it. (insert gay joke here).

so at any rate, I love the price-point on the new shuffle. it's teeny, fits in your pocket, connects directly to your usb port, uses a flash drive... but you cant visually search for songs or read song details. The small one starts at $99, and the 1GB one starts at $137 (with the edu discount.)

now, granted, 1GB is more than a cd filled to bursting with mp3s. in fact, that's about 200 songs. let's say 4 minutes per song... which makes a good 13 hours of music, if I did my math right.

my average album has 12 songs. that's 16 disks which i can load up onto something smaller than a pack of gum.

now, multiply that x 4, and you get the smallest iPod mini, at around $170. 64 albums. 64!? That's about all I have of any one specific genre. 96 disks on the larger mini, at $230.

another $40 gets you a total of 320 albums, or probably more than I own, not including legally purchased iTMS songs.

Now, granted, at that point, I start cringing from spending that much money when I could've put money toward a new laptop, which brings me back down to "reality" and the fact that 64 albums is quite a bit of music on the mini.

But, part of me says "flash drive!" and 200 songs is plenty. And if I use my Best Buy gift card, I bring it down less than educational pricing.

*sigh*

Off I go to buy more figures.

Comments

You think *you're* lagging behind? I still have a tape deck in my car and dial-up internet!! ; ) Thankfully I do have a digital camera.

Ok, but I only have AM/FM in my car. So there. Somedays, dialup is a blessing. At least you cant be wasting time looking at photos of sucky action figures!

That's true. And I'd probably be broke from sniping on ebay all night. Could be a blessing in disguise.

Here's the thing, tho...my piece of shit Zen Jukebox (still at Creative after two weeks of waiting to be repaired) is 40GB. That's something like 10,000 songs or some such shit. Before it broke I'd only put about 2000 songs on it and hadn't made a dent. I'd put total crap on it just to fill up space. I will probably never, ever use up all 40GB.

And yet, I can't possibly imagine having anything smaller. I would love to buy myself a Shuffle to use while running, but I immediately think, IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH!!!!

Oh, yeah, you can't jostle the Zen or it skips. What the hell is up with that?!?!?

The one you have, and the larger iPods, i believe are hard-drive based. The shuffle is flash-memory based, which means no moving parts. Which, I guess is a good reason to get one.

The mp3-cd players offer "52 second" and such, skip protection... I would suppose that that means it's loading into memory 52 seconds of the song, buffering it in case of jarring.

I'm bidding on a 15g ipod on ebay. I'll probably lose, and remain stuck in this conundrum.

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