Ipod Nano or Pocket PC

[looneytoone]

I need help. My wife is totally buying into the Ipod marketing machine and wants an Ipod for Christmas. I have not bought into the hype and believe that one can do more with a PPC and a nice sized storage card. Here is what I need.

1. If the Ipod is soooo great, somebody tell me why.
2. Please help reinforce my argument that her new Dell X51V (on order) will be much better than an Ipod.

[looneytoone]

I need help. My wife is totally buying into the Ipod marketing machine and wants an Ipod for Christmas. I have not bought into the hype and believe that one can do more with a PPC and a nice sized storage card. Here is what I need.

1. If the Ipod is soooo great, somebody tell me why.
2. Please help reinforce my argument that her new Dell X51V (on order) will be much better than an Ipod.

[ChristopherTD]

Possibly one of the iPods greatest strengths (and one that goes largely unremarked) is the very close integration between iTunes and the iPod, which makes it very easy to get music onto the iPod quickly.

[looneytoone]

Is it easier to integrate than a Pocket PC to Windows Media Player?

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by looneytoone

Is it easier to integrate than a Pocket PC to Windows Media Player?

Most likely, yes. Most iPods can hold your entire music collection, or at least the favorites. Unless you have a 1GB or higher memory card (still less than the base 2GB Nano) you will have to pick and choose. Plus, the iPod plays music really well. Never reach for the stylus, etc.

Don't give her a fancy swiss army knife when all she wants is a screwdriver.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

If it was for you I would have said take the PPC. But since it's for your wife, Ed's remarks are spot on. Trust me. I've been there.

[Sven]

Gotta go with Ed and hishamh. If she wants an MP3 player, the iPods are the gold standard. If she had wanted to replace her planner, and an MP3 player too would be nice, the PDA, PPC or otherwise is the ticket.

You are fortunate your wife gave you such a clear "hint". Most of us have to guess. Don't screw this up

[PetiteFlower]

I have a PDA and I got an MP3 player even so. It's just not easy enough to play music WHILE reading ebooks or doing the other things that I do on the PDA. To play music on the MP3 player all I have to do is turn it on and press play. On the PDA, I have to turn it on, start the media player, find the playlist, then hit play. Takes too long. And if I want to do other tasks on the PDA, it slows it down.

Now personally I wouldn't go for a Nano (or any Ipod) but that's just a personal bias. But I do understand the desire for a dedicated music player.

[burtcom]

When I got a 1GB SD card for my HP iPaq, I tried leaving my 40GB iPod at home for about a month -- I hoped it would be more convenient.

Now I'm back to using the iPod -- it is just much, much, much better at playing music and, with iTunes, managing music than any Microsoft solution.

WM10 on the device sucks -- it has that annoying pop between songs, and quite often can't see the tunes on the Storage Card -- some file gets corrupted and I have to delete it and reboot. There is also no on-the-fly volume equalizer.

There are some MP3 players that do a better job with playback than WM10-- but they're not as comfortable UI-wise as the iPod.

[cec]

Ahhh looneytoone. The trials of married life. Get her the iPod. It doesn't matter if the x51v is the more powerfull device. She wants the Nano. Get her the Nano. She will be happy and so will you.

By the way I got one for my wife and it is a cool device. It is tiny and does its job well.

Now if the device was for you then that would be a different story.

[kaitanium]

yea if she wants a nano then just make her happy with a nano. if only people knew that with a pocket you could rule the WORLD!!! just kidding. dell x50 series rocks ipod socks anyday