oblar

I have been thinking a lot about buying an Ipod recently, but I have noticed that there seems to be a person who is very adamant about their hatred for their ipod for every person who is in love with them.

personally, I have yet to meet a single person with an ipod who dislikes it, or wishes they had another MP3 player, but I have met people with other Mp3 players wanting for a different brand. I ask this of those who dislike the Ipod, what do you hate about it?

I tend to notice mainly two arguments for this (other than the obligatory "I hate Apple" statement): 1) They use micro-harddrives that tend to crap out due to not being solid state and 2) The price tag is crazy.

However, I have a reason I can see their price tag. So far, I have yet to see a single large capacity Mp3 player that has such a nice user interface. Personally, I would hate to have thousands upon thousands of songs only to have to click >> a few thousand times to get to the song I like. Using a small (512megs or less) I don't think this problem would be too bad, but when you get to the 5 GB+ then it becomes very important for me to have a nice interface.

Has anyone had any first hand experience with another Mp3 player that has just as nice a UI as the ipod? What sort of battery life? Pretty much the only two major concerns would be battery life and the UI. Since I would rather have a solid state device if I were to work out (since I realize that constant jarring is a definate bad thing for it), but I mainly would like this device for car trips, programming, and the like. Basically times I am not at home and sitting around without music.

i hope this is coherent.

(brandon11983: you are a lucky one not having to really deal with these issues. If i had seen that Ipod for that pricetag it wouldn't have been an issue*grin* Very nice grab.)