Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
#0Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:54pm
So my ipod finally died after one too many drops at the gym. I was looking into buying a new one but I heard some rumbling that there might be an even newer version coming out before year end. Does anyone know anything about this? If so, would this new model be astronomically more expensive than the current models?
I'd hate to spend the money to replace now only to be antiquated by Christmas...
Katt
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/22/06
#1re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:56pmThere's supposed to be a new one coming out that wirelessly syncs up with the computer. If you wait, then when that one comes out, the price on the current ones will drop significantly. So, I would wait a few months and see what happens.
#2re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:57pm
Well, why not buy a little stopgap item, like a shuffle or an old mini and wait and see?
Personally, I left Ipods altogether and I'm much more pleased with my Zen.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:59pm
Later... They're just like computers, once you buy one, a better one comes out.
Of you can just have mine. It's a mini, maybe six months old.. but it's been sitting in my glove compartment for about four months now, dead as a doornail.
#4re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:12pmThe iPod trend seems to be, introduce something new, close to the price of the current ones then discontinue the current ones all together. Apple runs a promo in the fall for students, last year it was buy a computer and get a free mini, right after the promo eneded the nanos and current iPods came out. I would personally wait.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#5re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:21pmMake sure your next gym has a padded floor. I dropped mine a few times and no damage,
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#6re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:30pmThey're always going to be coming out with something newer and better. They released the video IPOd about two weeks after I got my 60. Luckily, I didn't care about video anyway. I say, if there's one you want you might as well get it, or you'll be waiting forever.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#7re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 6:41pmForget an IPod. Get a Zen.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#8re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 7:10pmwhat is that and does it work with itunes?
#9re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 7:12pm
Click that link to see it. I'm not sure if it works with ITunes or not.
Zen
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
ScottInLA
Stand-by Joined: 1/15/05
#10re: Should I replace my IPOD now or later?
Posted: 4/28/06 at 7:33pm
The Zen looks cool. If I didn't already have an iPod, I'd quite probably get that.
As for the original question, though, I agree with shameless...at least for the time being, there will always be a new one released within the next six months or so, so when you decide you want one, and it has the features you want, get it. It's guaranteed to be obsolete within a year, but so would the ones you waited for, and you got that much extra time to enjoy it.
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