crookshow wrote:

For the record, both of my old iPods are still in good working condition. I've only upgraded twice because I needed more space. The 5 and 20 gig models I had weren't nearly enough for me, but they were the biggest available at the time I made the purchases. I had no issues with the functionality, I simply got tired of having to delete shit to make room for new stuff. I'd hardly call that making a poor choice.

I'd call it a poor choice, not knowing the details of your situation. Until from 2000 until 2007 I used a 512MB player. To overwrite albums from my collection on my PC's hard drive (while it was charging) took about 10 seconds. Let's assume it would have cost me 1000 dollars over the years keeping up with the latest and "best" shit that I don't need (I have no idea how much your iPods cost, but a quick search shows that the 5GB was $399 when it came out). Well, looking at my investment portfolio, those 1000 dollars which I didn't waste are now worth more like 2000, and when I'm 36 they'll probably be double that.

In my opinion, choosing to give up 4000 dollars in order to avoid pressing CTRL+C, ALT+TAB, then CTRL+V once a week is, in fact, a poor choice.

Of course I don't know the details of your situation; I'm just justifying my opinion in mine.

crookshow wrote:

Well Richo, you may not value the utility of a large capacity jukebox type player, but if you're collection is anywhere near the size of mine, 512MB is simply not feasible no matter how you try to spin it. Let's say I did spend $1,000 (and I'm well aware of the time value of money, I have a BS in Finance) on MP3 players over the last decade. To me, it was well worth it. I don't care to argue over this anymore so I'll leave it at that.

I assume "jukebox" means you want to be able to play all your songs randomly. Can't argue with that. Although my collection is large, I never found myself needing more than about 4 albums at a time, because I only listen to albums, not songs.

But my disgust was with the idea of buying new stuff just because it's there (while half the world starves). At least you can name a reason why you upgraded. Oh, and I have a BS in Never Having Even Finished High School, which I'm pretty sure trumps yours.

Nekkoru wrote:

I have a Macbook as well, and in the last 10 months I have been using it, it hasn't given me shit. Not even one time. Until I tried to beat Battletoads while drunk. I kept dying and I may or may not threw it at a wall. It came back from the repair shop polished. How many of you PC users can say that about your service shops? "My Dell just came back from the repair shop and they even cleaned it up!"? I don't think so.

So much stupidity condensed into a single post...

For future reference, what is your native language?

Nekkoru wrote:

Polish.

Okay, that backfired, heh. Good English! (Or so I assume, not knowing the average of your culture).

Avian wrote:

On the topic of Apple, why is it that so many people claim that Mac's are better than PC's?

Here's an interesting take on it:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/30/39-apple-products/

tl;dr: Snobby, trendy, pretentiousness. But don't let it fool you. You can accomplish any goal on a PC which you can on a Mac, while the converse isn't true: there are lots of things you can do on a PC that a Mac won't let you do. Also, PCs are less expensive, and when something goes wrong they are easier to fix (by yourself, or through searching for the readily-available info since PCs are so ubiquitous). So unless you enjoy being a pretentious, air-headed snob or there's some REALLY specific task you want to primarily use your machine for which a Mac can do more efficiently, don't let the commercials get to you.

Good points, GPFontaine, but I don't know about "two days". My Windows-specific shortcuts are so second-nature to me by now that I think it might take more like two years plus shock therapy for me to ever feel as comfortable with another shell.