iRiver vs iPod I need help deciding

[Kaikou]

My look on it? Get a sony mini disc player. Unless you have 20 gigs of music that you want on hand to listen to and 400 bucks, those iwhatevers are just a waste of money

The mini disc players can fit around....70 or so songs per disc, and they're easy to carry with you.

Edit: not to mention they take 1 AA battery that lasts for about 8 hours nonstop...

My main reason for not having an iPod/iRiver is that I don't have 20 gigs of music I want on hand to listen to. Hell I don't even have 20 gigs of music total. My entire music collection is about 5 gigs. It'd be cool to use those ipod/rivers as a mini hard drive that you can connect via USB 2 and have 20 gigs of storage space for any kind of file though...but the prices are somewhat ludicrous for 20 gigs of storage as I can buy a 200 gig hard drive for half the price

[EineBeBoP]

I already have an MP3 cd player, and its great! i love it, I just dont wanna carry around the CDs. They could get stolen/lost/scratched beyond use. (all have happened before [I miss my Incubus cd])

If this were a week in europe, I'd prolly agree. but 4 weeks is a long time and a lot can happen. I'll also be using this for years (i hope it makes it to and through college at least) so not such a big waste if I never have to replace it.

[Rbstr]

Don't get the dell, dell sucks, i hate dell, they should all get annurisms and die.

I donno about them the iriver sound like its got better value, and i personly think the Ipod is a bit overrated/pop culture thing.

[Kaikou]

you don't have to worry about scratching a mini disc because they're inside a plastic case like a floppy disc. A bit smaller than a floppy disc. I dunno, they're cheaper, and have just the right amount of space for songs. If I had 20 gigs of music I'd probably get one of the iRivers but . . . yeah I don't.

The day they make the mini MPEG player will be godlike. I'll be watching anime wherever I go. The closest thing they have like this is a laptop though :\ I actually saw some guy using a laptop to watch anime in a line at anime expo 2003. Was indeed amusing. I'll be getting a laptop for my birthday, so I'll probably be doing the same at anime expo 2004

Speaking of AX2004, you should go eine, isn't *really* far from where you live, you're like, an hour north of LA right? well AX is about 45 minutes south of LA so it'd be around a 2 hour drive for you. We could meet and make fun of all the cosplayers!

http://www.animeexpo.org