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Originally Posted by goddfather40
I pretty much concur with the other opinions'. There are some items I will not buy refurbished, like hard drives or RAM. Those items are just too critical.
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Oh, absolutely. I've never seen refurbed HDs or RAM for sale.. I think I'd be a little shocked to see somebody refurbing and reselling those. Once a HD or stick of RAM goes bad, it's bad, and its proper home is the dumpster.
I'm actually sort of in this same quandary. lurkette's birthday is coming up and she's in serious need of an iPoddish device (she's using my ancient 20GB Archos Jukebox, whose HD is failing). On one hand, I sort of hate to get her an actual iPod when there are other devices out there with richer feature sets and that aren't the freaking Big Mac of the DAP world. On the other hand... there's a reason everybody eats Big Macs. And the availability of refurb iPods takes the price issue out of the equasion. The other thing is, she'll be way happier using iTunes than Windows Media to manage data on the thing. I can't find any current models that mount as a USB Mass Storage Device anymore. I guess DRM has won...
