[G4ME]

Well its Xmas time again and i am scratching my head about what to get my sister, she has been steeling my old CD player for more the a year now and i think its time to get her an MP3 player, I know the ipod is the MP3 player, thats why i have one, i just don't have the cash for it.

So here it goes, I am looking for a sub 100 dollar Mp3 player, with a minimum of 64 mb, and it has to have an expansion slot, be it SD, or a back pack.

So i have been doing some looking proding around, and i can get my dirty little hands on a Nomad IIc for 80 bucks after rebates, and the only other competition that i see is the Rio 900 but that is a little pricy but i like the style a ton more then the creative one.

so whats your input? have any of you guys had bad expreiences with any nomad products? Rio has been there since the begining and i just want to cover my assests, if you know what i mean.

[blackgasmask]

Id get a rio 500 and some extra storage for it. I had one before I got my ipod and I liked it.

[Thilo Ettelt]

I strongly suggest to buy a portable CD-MP3-Player! It will be much cheaper for your sister because she won't have to buy expensive memory extentions, just cheap CD-Rs. Such a player costs around a hundred bucks (some are even cheaper, some are more exprensive) and the TCO as stated above is a lot less than for any another non-hd mp3 players.


Cheers, Thilo

[RMXO]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:
I strongly suggest to buy a portable CD-MP3-Player! It will be much cheaper for your sister because she won't have to buy expensive memory extentions, just cheap CD-Rs. Such a player costs around a hundred bucks (some are even cheaper, some are more exprensive) and the TCO as stated above is a lot less than for any another non-hd mp3 players.


Cheers, Thilo

yeah, a portable MP3 CD player would be the better route & cheaper in the long run also......

[SupahCoolX]

[cheap plug]Check the Buy/Sell forum. I have 2 older mp3 players for sale [/cheap plug]

Anyway, CD-MP3 players are a pretty good value these days, but they're not pocket-sized like "traditional" mp3 players. The flash memory- based mp3 player market isn't too great these days, but SonicBlue still has some good values in the Rio line.

BTW, www.dealmac.com lists someplace having refurb iPods for $180. It really is worth it...

[G4ME]

well unfortunaly she is on a sony viao laptop, damn gettysburg for haveing Windows only, ****ing ******* ****licking whores, sorry about that. so it will be a mirical if i can get her to transfer the MP3s to the player let alone tell her how to burn a CD, seeing that she doesn't have a CD burnner.

Also can the ipod work off of 4 pin, just for data, on laptops? 180 is deffinatly out of my leage.

well i still got some time and outpost has great shipping

[Mac Zealot]

yeah, ipod will work with a 6 to 4 pin cable but you have to charge it with the power adapter.

You'll also have to find a way to format it PC and I'm not sure how this is done.

[G4ME]

180 is too much, BTW i ordered the Nomad IIc this morning from buy.com and it should be here on monday or tuseday. it willcom out to 83 bucks after 2nd day air and rebates. so not bad, and i can always get her a 128 SD card and those are really cheap.

[Anomalous]

I have a Rio 600 with a 64 MB expansion backpack, and I would highly recommend a Rio model. It is stylish and works well, much better than the MP3 player I owned previously (JaMP3).