fener said:
First off, yeah, I know it's one gig per MD, and no maximum for the player, but I was assuming one disc because of the limitations I already discussed-you can only have one in at once, it's a pain to cary other discs, keep track of which music is where, etc. you don't want to be swappiing discs out every couple of songs on the subway or walking etc. but you do want to have access to more than one gig at a time, etc. etc.
Also, am I misreading, or is your math wrong? $7*10 Discs=$70, but that is not 70 gig. It's not a dollar a gig, it's seven dollars a gig. 10 Discs * 1 gig/disc=10 gig. You've paid $400 for 10 gigs. That's not high cost benefit. You get twice the storage, and all in once place, with the 400 dollar ipod.
And for that matter, wanna go for the top of the line ipod's capacity, and carry around 40 minidiscs? that's 40*$7=280 dollars, plus the 325 for the player, and boom, you've broken 600 bucks.
The one way in which it is cost effective is that if you have a growing library, you don't have to predict it's final size, and buy that, but you can start at the bottom, and your player can grow with you. If you buy an ipod mini, it becomes too small, you buy a 20 gig, it becomes to small, you buy a 40, then obviously you're paying more.
Of course, there is the other inefficient option with an ipod, of you buying an ipod, the battery running out, buy another of the same size, it dies, buy another. That one I'm still cursing apple for.
(and apologies if i sounded like i questioned you. it just didn't make sense to me the way i read it... so thanks for the details.)
