<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GadgetFreak:
Actually, most of the things they like better about the IPOD are things like cooler orange lighting. Ill take double the battery life, and try as I may I still have 16 gigs left out of my 20 so Im not really sorry I dont have a 40. In the three weeks I have had it I have been on 3 trips past the battery life of an IPOD. Cool orange lights that arent lit and another empty 20 gigs dont help me out much. The song selection on iTunes is better though. I thought the reviewer was a trying a bit too hard to be funny rather than compare what they are good and bad at. Clearly if I was looking for something to listen to during a 1 hour commute each way on the train I would have gotten an IPOD. But for long distance travelling I think the Dell is fantastic
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I agree, it was VERY poorly written. There were many aspects he didn't look at. Plus, not everyone will be using the itunes music store, a lot of people will prefer using their own CD's. Filling a 40Gb device with purchased music from the ITMS is ludicrous.
ITunes SUCKS at ripping CD's so for people with a personal music collection it wouldn't be the best solution. The ipod has more add-ons but then it's also been on the market for longer...