Dude, I know, a 40GB MP3 player is bigger than my hard drive, and my computer isn't *that* obsolete. But the reason that I want lots of storage on my MP3 player is because I can't rip and store all my CD's onto my computer, so any sort of flash drive player really doesn't make sense- if I wanted to switch the music on it, I'd have to rerip the CD's each time.
I am expecting to drop a fair bit of cash. I had an iRiver H340 up until it was "lost" in the airport last June, and that was over $400... I was just expecting to have it for a little longer. They are still less expensive than a laptop with a bigger HDD and a small flash player, though, and more convenient.
The big problem I'm having is that the H340 met all those criteria, but they don't sell it in the US anymore. So my options for getting that back are to buy it overseas and loose out in the exchange rate and import taxes, or buy it on ebay, where they are rare enough that I'd be paying what I paid for it new. Also, I have this unreasonable expectation that if I'm buying technology two years later, it should be both significantly better and significantly less expensive than it was when I bought originally, you know?
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Date: 2007-02-13 05:38 am (UTC)I am expecting to drop a fair bit of cash. I had an iRiver H340 up until it was "lost" in the airport last June, and that was over $400... I was just expecting to have it for a little longer. They are still less expensive than a laptop with a bigger HDD and a small flash player, though, and more convenient.
The big problem I'm having is that the H340 met all those criteria, but they don't sell it in the US anymore. So my options for getting that back are to buy it overseas and loose out in the exchange rate and import taxes, or buy it on ebay, where they are rare enough that I'd be paying what I paid for it new. Also, I have this unreasonable expectation that if I'm buying technology two years later, it should be both significantly better and significantly less expensive than it was when I bought originally, you know?