Author: Rob Malpass Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Ipods (vaguely Linux I suppose)
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From: "James Ashburner" <hantslug@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Ipods (vaguely Linux I suppose)
> Sean Gibbins wrote:
>
>> Have you considered Creative Zens? They seem to offer similar capacities,
>> will apparently connect to Linux machines through Gnomad2, and come
>> highly recommended by friends who have them. They are considerably
>> cheaper than iAudio and Apple products, and only down side for me is the
>> lack of ogg support, but then you won't have that with the iPod either.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>
> I have both an iPod Nano and a Creative Zen Micro. In all honesty, I'd
> never have had an iPod if work hadn't given me one free. The Zen sounds
> better and is just as easy to use. It's a bit bigger, but then it's hard
> disk based rather than flash. Battery life on both is good.
>
> The only thing I particularly like about the iPod is you can install Linux
> on it :) Look for Rockbox and iPod Linux.
>
> James
> Thanks for all the replies folks. One thing's for sure - I'm not using
Itunes if I get one. I have around 20Gb of music and I've just had a play
with Itunes - awful interface and very slow.
