I’m sure your thinking, “Ha! James and his sense of smug superiority is slinking back to Vista!” Well, sorry to disappoint as I would rather drive old garden stakes into my thighs with a pillow than do something as patently crazy as that. No, after motherfucking the iPod as long as I can remember I bought one for Management last month as a birthday present and now in light of the 160GB model and a couple of weeks of getting to know the device I’ll be getting myself one. Yeah, I’m a flip-flopper.
My H320 is dying being prone to random freezes, track jumps, and for the fact that only USB charging works, which can take about the same amount of time for light to travel from Alpha Centauri to here, I am now desperately in the market for a new player. iAudio appears to have given up on their X5 line and managing our Zen on Ubuntu is a less than pleasurable task. So, here I am coming clean. I want an iPod.
Did I mention that it is 160GB? I can actually carry a good chunk of my collection with me now.
wow! what a development! those ipods are certainly nice…. i’m tempted, but i think i’m ok with my 1 gb flash player.
Damn, I really thought you were ready to admit you were wrong about mr. bill! But really I can’t chastise you too much for getting into the ipod conformist camp.
Personally, as I mentioned before, I don’t trust hard drives anymore so the next time, it will be flash for me (hopefully 16gb).
The trouble is that I am a total capacity whore and even my existing 20GB dying H320 feels cramped so shaving 4 off that…and the 1GB iAudio that I have really is only good (for me) for throwing together the random Country-Hip-Hop-Speed-Metal mix. As Management says, I am a wannabe ADD addled DJ.
Yeah, and Bill, he’s dead to me. Dead, you hear, dead!