Thread: Zune HD
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mmurfin87 is offline mmurfin87
2009-07-12 , 23:06
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Well I've always had an intense dislike for Apple. In their singleminded effort to make things accessible to the technology illiterate, they have cut out features that I love to use and restricted me from doing things that I want to do.
Not that there's a whole lot to do on an iPod. I've found that iPods are decent players and work well, but since you "have" to use iTunes, and iTunes is a piece of **** (wish there was a stronger curse word), iPods are generally out for me.

Now I bought an iPod, and a Creative Zen, and I liked the Zen, and found the iPod passable, but it wasn't until I lost the Zen and gave the iPod to my sister that I discovered the Zune 80. I fell in love and used it for over a year until I dropped it into a cup of water in my car which killed it. Luckily I had bought a flash Zune to develop multiplayer games with so I just switched right over to that without any problems.

Yes at first glance it has a tiny screen with an annoyingly large bezel, but as soon as I began using it exclusively, the screen size just didn't bother me. I mean I see its the same size, but since I've been using it I just don't care, it works for me.

So in short, if you have a lot of music locked into iTunes, then you might as well go iPod again, but if you have all DRM-free music, I definitely suggest going Zune. If this is just a gym player, get a flash Zune. They have them in 16GB now.

If you're going to be watching lots of video on it, I suggest the Zune 80. The screen is just so large and nice for video.