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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Going, going, gone!

I'm happy to report that after being on the market for less than a week, my apartment is sold! I got a couple of great offers and accepted one today. A little sigh of relief knowing that is sorted and I can add a little money to the bottomless pit that is called MBA-financing.

On a different, but slightly related note, I've been thinking about buying an MP3 player. I am one of those people that have watched from the sidelines whilst other people pop white plugs in their ears. I can see the wow-factor of the sleek design of the iPod and I hear it calling to me, but I've also heard some negative stories. So far I've checked out a few websites and there's a couple of things that I'm thinking about. My main reasons for buying an MP3 player are
a) a way to store all the music on my cd's so I don't have to bring my cd's to London with me
b) as an extra storage device.
I've been thinking about buying a 20 or 30 Gb one, so I can do both, realising that they might be a little more bulky than smaller (say 4 or 5 Gb one). A few players I've been looking at are the Sony NW-HD5, IRiver 20 Gb, Samsung YH-920GS, Creative Labs Zen Xtra, iPod 4th generation (40 Gb).
Sooooooo, whilst I'm doing more research, I'd like to know your opinions? What should I look out for? Have you got an MP3 player and can you recommend it?

3 Comments:

At 6:35 AM, Blogger PowerYogi said...

Are people usually congratulated when they sell their homes? hooray for the extra money added to the bottomless pit, though ;-)

I'm an iPod kinda guy, so go Apple !

 
At 8:40 AM, Blogger Ricardo said...

I couldn't resist. iPod has got me. Battery life could be better. But it's soooo cool! And sound is great. Best of mp3 players, no doubt about that. I got the 20Gb version, which is now not enough for my mp3 collection!! :-)) I'm taking my 160Gb external hard-drive with me.

 
At 12:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm an iRiver fan ;)
But I use their flash-players (iFp and N10) and thus cannot recommend a harddisk one ;)
When I researched (half a year ago) iRiver was cheeper than iPod and had more voices saying "it's good" (here in Russia, mind).
Hope, it'll help a little ;)
Sincerely,
Pauly

 

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