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To Zune or not to Zune - that is the question...

I preordered a Zune the other night within minutes of Amazon posting it. My dilemma is that with an 18 hour flight coming up, I need something to listen to music and podcasts. It looks like I'll jump on the iPod bandwagon for now - not sure if I'll go iPod Video or Nano.

It would sure be nice if they could partition a portion of the device as a USB drive... oh well.

Published Oct 05 2006, 12:26 PM by shebert

Comments

Ross said:

"It would sure be nice if they could partition a portion of the device as a USB drive... oh well."

What makes you think you can't ;) Enable Disk Use is your friend ...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131

# October 5, 2006 3:06 PM

DaRage said:

i like this one

http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-SDMX4-4096-Sansa-Player-Expansion/dp/B000ETVKHE/sr=1-22/qid=1160082805/ref=sr_1_22/002-1427535-6968045?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

# October 5, 2006 4:10 PM

DaRage said:

ops sorry for damaging the page

# October 5, 2006 4:11 PM

Ryan said:

First, I would cancel the Zune order -- though a Zune sounds cool having both an iPod and Zune seems redundant.

If you have a large library, or need a large USB drive I'd go with the video for the larger drive. Otherwise, the nano is good cause of battery and no moving parts. I borked my first iPod by dropping it while the hard drive was being accessed.

# October 5, 2006 5:10 PM

shebert said:

For the time being, I dropped my Zune order and I'm trying out the SanDisk sansa device. I prefer the iPod physical interface, but I like the recordable-FM/video/solid-state-ness of the Sansa so far. I'll see after a little use if it's really the one.

# October 6, 2006 1:35 PM