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[irwan6179]

which one is more worth it????

ipod nano : strong screen material,but easy got scratchess
flash memory(hard to spoil)
colourfull screen
new model

ipod mini : good material
mini hardisk
grayscale screen
stop production model(nowadays)



give me u'r comments

Edited by HTML_Guru, 13 October 2005 - 04:15 AM.

[evought]

which one is more worth it????

ipod nano : strong screen material,but easy got scratchess
flash memory(hard to spoil)
colourfull screen
new model

ipod mini : good material
mini hardisk
grayscale screen
stop production model(nowadays)
give me u'r comments

Flash memory is not necessarily hard to spoil. Flash is only good for a certain number of writes. If you change out your music on a regular basis, you will wear it out, especially if you ever use it as a portable hard drive. On the other hand, you will not damage Flash memory by joggling it. I have a decent flash MP3 player sitting here that I have worn out the memory. It still plays, but I cannot write to it anymore.

If you do any sort of exercise while carrying your player, go with the flash memory. If you just carry it around, ride the bus, do other light activities, you won't hurt the hard drive and it will last longer.

Personally, I don't care about a color screen. I want to listen to music, not look at the screen. The screen needs to be clear enough to see what I have playing and select songs. But that's just me.

[jcguy]

If you're a light music listener and are on a tight budget, I think that a flash based player will be better. Flash players usually come in lower capacities like 128 megs, 256 megs and so on while hard-disk players come in larger capacities like 1 gig, 2 gig. So generally flash players can be cheaper and a good choice for light users.

[szupie]

Doesn't the Ipod Nano have a clearer screen than its predecessors? That's what I've heard.
But, if it has less memory than the Mini, I would choose the Mini, because I like lots of memory even though I would never use that much.

[pat23]

I own a Nano and i like it better than the mini, holds alot of music, Nice clear screen for viewing, and easy to use interface. So i suggest go with the NANO.

[Killer008r]

I think bouth are pretty bad. Ipod nano's screen scratches with anything, its made out of the crappiest lighest matireal ever. The mini breaks way to easy, even with the case on. My Advice, Go with a mp3 player like the PsP or just like a 2GB flash drive and get a mp3 hookup for it.

[jipman]

Breaking? Dude, I think You better check up on your sources

http://arstechnica.c...ware/nano.ars/3

Those things real solid for their size. And some people just want a mp3 player, not a whole BIG ass huge PSP thing.

I'd go for nano, it has a colorscreen, and about the scratches. That's really bull. You can't expect something NOT to scratch if you put an ipod and your bloody keys in one pocket. Anything will scratch, either put your ipod in a pocket without sharp objects or buy some kind of ipod protection sock thing.

ps. Killer008r, i'd like to see some references to an ipod breaking :|.....

[destinedskater]

Well the ipod mini is a good but (as it holds more songs for the same price!) and the nano sctraches a lot. BUT what i have heard is that apple are re desgining the nano!!! Im NOT sure if it is true!

But the nano holds pictures, album art and is very small!!

So in a way it is just down to what you want they are both good in different ways so its down to user prefrence!!

If you want a personal opion i would but nano

[Killer008r]

I have a Nano, I bought it straight from Best Buy. No scratches I put it in my pocket, nothing was in there, nothing but my hand when I took it out. When I actually took it out, the screen was scratched. How do you explain that?

And about the breaking thing, you have to check up on your sources, I said the IPod MINI, not NANO.

[PC Astray]

If you are looking into investments, I suggest keeping an iPod mini for another 50 years before selling it again. The resale value will be damn high, I'm sure.

But as for now, I would recommend getting the iPod nano. Its features sure look nice to me and Creative is yet to come up with a colour screen and they're always one step behind Apple which makes me think everytime a new iPod comes out, Creative will back engineer their technology. Which may not be true. Their Zen Neeon certainly came out too late but it sure does look nice! I'll rank it second after the iPod nano though.

And is it worth the looks? The iPod nano 4GB is indeed 4GB BUT US$50 will get you a standard iPod with an EXTRA 16GB. This is worth reconsidering

[Moody]

I would never buy a big iPod, it's too big, iPod nano is very small (my friend has it), really very small. It has nice screen, you can watch photo's on it. 4 gig is enough for me, otherwise i just wouldn't know what to listen. I'm not so up to harddrives, but i would take nano.
The mini is also out of production, so it's more difficult to let it repair (my friend says they just can't anymore)....

[Cube Domain]

My advice for you would to get a PlayStationPortable. PSPs are cheaper than iPods. With an iPod, you can only listen to music. However, with a PSP, you can listen to music, watch movies, play games that are comparable to today's top notch consoles and with a wireless connection (sometimes found in school, work, universities, etc.), you can browse the Internet! Yes, you actually can with a handheld system.

PSPs are currently selling for $250 each.

[Perfect_Chaos21392]

id suggest waiting b/c the video ipod is just around the corner........

[irwan6179]

i think i will wait for ipod photos to become nano too... at that time, sure i will buy it for whatever price apple put for it....haha

[Jguy101]

Neither. For the same price as a 2 gigabyte iPod Nano, you can get a 6-gig Creative Labs Zen Micro, which isn't nearly as small, but comes in a bunch of different colors.

[irwan6179]

im thinking of buying psp too but for psp, it is hard to view a movie or video clips because we have to buy first the movie in umd disk, which is more pricey than original one. And if we already got the videoclip in our computer, the only way to view it is to trasfer it to memorystick which is expensive and limited. i i heard (correct me if im wrong)ipod video display quality is better than psp,(though it's smaller than psp).

but psp have a lot more function like, wifi, internet browsing, games(of course).. but the real drawback is the umd disk, it is not self-burnable. i wonder, if they use mini dvd instead of umd, more than ten-folds of people will buy it..

and for creative, it doesnt give 'i have an ipod' satisfaction feeling, creative product doesnt have the same effect. ' i have a creative'-so lame... . u get what i mean?

further more, some phycologist say make people love ipod is it addictive clickwheel. yeah, i love twiggling my thumb searching for soing, or play with its volume, besides that, it have nice clicking sound...some people say, the clicking sound is improving for each generation, meaining every new generation have a better satisfactory clickng sound... haha thats what i heard

[PC Astray]

If that's what you think, then go for it!

If you're willing to sacrifice that few gigs for a difference of $50, iPod nano will certainly satisfy your needs but iPod video should also be nice despite its screen size. And it should be more cost efficient in the long term. Like you said, money isn't an issue.

But the new Creative Zen Vision is worth checking out. My best friend just got it to replace his "old" first generation Creative Portable Media Centre. Looks like they learnt something about "fashion" icon from iPods. Just like the new Xbox 360.

[twitch]

I really don't understand the craze for something that holds 10,000 tracks. If I had the time and money to spend, filling up an MP3 player with that many tracks, I wouldn't.

If I were to buy one of them, it would be the Nano. The mini is suseptible to more damage, with it being a hard disk. Although, as pointed out, the memory can only be written to so many times, however, with room for so many tracks, who needs to overwrite any tracks?

[Saint-Jimmy]

wow, i dunno why you're even considering buying a mini, they're out of date now... I'm buying a Nano next month, i was considering a Creative Zen but a 4 Gig flash memory just bewildered me... so get the Nano!

[allwazabsnt]

The Ipod Nano is the way to go because it is overall good and for the scratches, just get a case that can easily protect the Ipod without the need of taking it off everytinme you want to change a song or play a game. The Color screen also makes it alot easier to read in the dark. The games are a little hard to play on an Ipod but still are good. As i said the Ipod Nano is the way to go...its small sleek and has good features