January 11, 2005
iPod Shuffle - do I want one?
I've been waffling for some time as to whether or not to get a portable MP3 player. My standard line is that my commute isn't long enough (i.e. longer than it takes to read Express) to justify the cost of an iPod and that if I'm going to plunk down the money for one of these things, I might as well get an iPod.
Now that Apple has introduced the iPod shuffle, my life has been made complicated. Now that it's in a price range I can afford, I am considering purchasing this fine Apple product, even if it doesn't have a clickwheel. I've plunked down $100 for less useful things (who needs a carpet or a front headlight?)
My main hangup is not capacity, but the lack of a display. I could easily envision loading up on tracks from MP3 blogs, playing through them on a walk around the neighborhood, noting what I do and do not like -- something I couldn't do if I didn't have a screen.
Oh well, I guess it's back to the Victrola for me.
Posted by rj3 at January 11, 2005 3:11 PM
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I like footnote #2: Do not eat iPod Shuffle.
Posted by: Underused at January 11, 2005 3:41 PM
Jeez, another thing you *can't* do. At $99, you get what you pay for.
Posted by: rj at January 11, 2005 3:44 PM
don't be a sheep.
don't be a lemming.
they should bundle the iPod w/ the lance armstrong cancer bracelets.
then they'd fly off the shelves.
oh yeah, they already fly off the shelves.
idiots.
Posted by: alpha at January 20, 2005 12:57 PM
Yeah, what the previous guy said, don't be a lemming and throw money away. With the IPod you have to buy the charger and the battery separately. I bought a 30gb Creative Jukebox for $239 at Best Buy and the only extra thing I had to buy was an FM transmitter so I could listen to it on 88.3 either at home or in the car or occasionally at work. I think I've seen speakers designed for it too.
Posted by: Chuck Chapman at January 26, 2005 10:52 PM