[hokeypokey]

Can anybody come up with a hack that will make this item a bit cheaper?

OK, Seriously. Can you jog with this puppy?

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by hokeypokey:
<STRONG>Can anybody come up with a hack that will make this item a bit cheaper?

OK, Seriously. Can you jog with this puppy? </STRONG>

why is this in the suggestions and comments forum?

Seeing that it weights just a bit more then my Rio and is just as small I can safely say YES! YES YES!!

[ewdavi0]

Let's be reasonable.

Yes this thing is expensive, and from most posts, only by about a hundred dollars,. Now lets look at the HD from toshiba which was made available on this URL
http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/produ...mpl-Over.shtml

Now some will argue, "...use cheaper components..." Please, you get what you pay for plain and simple. Then some will argue, use a bigger drive like the nomad, it doesn't have to be as small as a deck of cards. I sell this stuff at CompUSA, and if you've seen the Nomad, youd know that it is horribly large, and unattractive to boot., plus the interface on the Nomad is rough at best compared to this thing. But all tha† aside. If it were three hundred dollars instead of four and was made by, let's say compaq, would you by it? NO! WHY! Because it wouldn;t be as compatable with iTunes as the iPod is, and I doubt it would have the slick interface of the iPod, or firewire. So the question is, if you could pick out any MP3 player on the market, and pay Stevo a hundred dollars to fix all the mistakes would you? Ofcourse we would, and what would the best be? Well, it seems that everyone agree the 6 gig Nomad. Now Stevo traded a gig for a better size, and we are paying those wonderfull people at Apple to provide us with the best. Is it expensive? Yes, but so is a cadilac. When I want quality I want Apple, when I want Kroger brand, well, I don't do Kroger brand. I love the work that the people at Apple do, and I would not ask them to work for free, and a hundred dollars is not too much to ask for their skills. So what do we have to be mad about? That fact that while this might be a nice Christmas present from Stevo, it isn't what we ask for. Next christmas make it a PDA.

Support Apple and it's wonderful employees, buy and iPod

Thanks for the reply. I couldn't have said it any better myself. I feel better now. It is just one of those things that I needed reassurance on.
Thanks

[pigforce]

Hi.

It's great to see some cool heads looking at the facts! I am located in Europe, Ireland, and people were a bit annoyed by the price in Germany at first, some later someone posted that he just bought the drive used in iPod two weeks ago, but for the very same price of iPod today, and he was complaining about the fact that today you get this drive equipped with FW interface and MP3 player.
To my mind it might have been of advantage to point out more clearly, that you have a drive as good as a VST pocketdrive despite the size difference (VST pocketdrives, I believe, start at 10GB).
I for one use a Rio Volt and I can say that I am not really pleased for various reaons. I had to make a decision between a CD changer and an MP3 player for my car, but since I only drive 40 minutes per day average a CD changere would have been too much. The Rio Volt, even with only 700 MB MP3s makes it kind of hard to scroll and search around for songs you want to listen to while driving.
At the end of the day I use it if at all with max. 3 MP3ed CDs, or with Audio CDs. The possibility to have a device that I can split up, so that I can use 512 MB for MP3s and the rest for moving data between work and home is well thought through to my mind.
Also, the fact that in general customer demand dictates the price as long as the price is substentially above what the raw materials cost, iPod might even cause the price decline of these drives to a point where they become common in PowerBooks, maybe even opening a possibility to some day have an optional second drive in your Powerbook, since making powerbooks smaller doesn't make sense considering the need for a properly sized keyboard and display. The only question that remains to be answered is power consumption, but I don't feel that this will cause a serious issue.

Alex