I took a road trip to Toad Suck, Arkansas a couple of weeks back. It was a very quick trip, just overnight, but I discovered one important thing about mp3 players. I was in an SUV with three other men who all had their ipods with them. I had my wife’s ipod Shuffle which is on permanent loan. I got it for her so she could use it at the gym. She does go to the gym, but watches TV there instead. She does not use it, so she lets me. I do use it. I have been looking into getting a mp3 player of my own and have been researching them, pricing them, etc. I had pretty much decided on the latest player from SanDisk, the Sansa E270. It is a 6GB flash drive mp3 player that competes with the ipod nano. I do not have extreme amounts of music, so 6GB is about right for me. The Sansa does not have an ipod docking station…..ipods do. So I have now decided that an ipod is the direction I want to go. It just makes sharing music that much easier. I felt so inferior not being able to share my music. The Shuffle does not have an ipod dock either, but I have since learned that Apple does make an add-on dock for the Shuffle. I have also learned from macrumors.com that new ipods will be out for the holidays, so I am not sure what direction I will go, but one rumor is a new 12GB nano for about $250. That would be slick. I am drooling already.
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