Originally Posted by mmurfin87

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.