As some of you may know I’ve recently been on the lookout for a new Portable Media Player.
After much research I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to get a Creative Zen 32GB. I say “going to” because NOBODY FUCKING HAS THEM.
I’ve been to every shop in town that would have them, except for Tandy’s because it doesn’t fucking exist. Seriously I’ve been up and down Charles street ten times, inside David Jones and in the fucking mall. IT DOESN’T EXIST. It’s a LIE.
Nobody has them.
I’ve been to every shopping mall in South Australia, the largest sized MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod I found was a whopping 8 gigs. Eight. Fucking. Gigs. Fuck you Australia. I purchased an iRiver h320 over four years ago. At the time it also came in a 40gb variant. Are you honestly telling me that in four years we’ve managed to regress 32gb? And the fact that they sell ONE gigabyte models at almost the same price as the 8GB model is just fucking hilarious.
The kicker is that when I ask them if they sell the 32gb model, most salespersons’ jaw almost drops to the floor. They’re like, “What? There’s an MP3 Player that isn’t an iPod that’s larger than 16GB?”
One guy even tried his darndest to sell me a crappy 8gb model. Why the fuck would I want 8gb when I explicitly asked for a 32gb model. He was all like, “8 gigs is all you’ll ever need!”
I told him Bill Gates said the same thing about memory but I don’t think he got the reference. I don’t think I even have 8gb free on my iRiver h320.
So Why? What the fuck does Australia have against MP3 players with decent storage? I can buy a piece of crap iPod touch with 80 fucking GB of storage but if I want a functional, modern PMP I have to put up with 8gb? What kind of logic is that? FUCK YOU AND YOUR HOUSE.
Fuck you South Australia. It’s times like these that I thank Science that online shopping is a reality. Sure I have to pay extra for shipping and handling, but at least I can actually fucking OWN it.
/rage
Why would you ever buy a creative product nowadays? They’re horrible, they break, and when they break Creative says things like, “IT’S A PROBLEM WITH YOUR VIDEO CARD, GO TALK TO ATI” even though you have an nVidia card.
Oh wait, we’re talking about a MP3 player…?
Also, I constantly feel sorry for people living in Australia who are interested in electronics or games. You guys are always somewhere to a month to several years behind. If you like, you can send me $300 in Australian Fun-Bucks™ and I’ll buy it for ya.
Yeah Creative suck as a sound card company.
I had an Audigy 2, which isn’t THAT old, that I had to ditch because they were too pussy to write decent code for Vista for it. The volume output was almost non-existent. I switched to my onboard card and now I can rock the house with my headphones plugged in. The only downside is that my onboard doesn’t have 5.1 support
I was looking at buying another sound card too and the only decent ones are either built by Creative or are built using their technology. I’ll eventually upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in a few years, and I don’t want to have to buy ANOTHER card just because they’re too scared to support older cards. I think I’ll just stick to onboard, they seem solid enough.
For PMPs though it’s either a Creative ZEN player or a Cowon A3 which is HUGE, but feature-filled and twice the price. I had really hoped that by now PMPs would be everywhere and have features coming out their wazoos. But for a power-user there’s like, three options.
Has Apple really scared away the opposition? They did a number on iRiver that’s for sure, they aren’t even touching apples market these days, and they’ve discontinued all their products that used to.
I would take you up on your offer but I’ve already ordered one, thanks anyway
Asus has pretty nice sound cards for a fairly reasonable price. I have one of these right now (got it when my xfi died horribly), and it’s been pretty great so far.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132001
Cool. Everyone I asked about the Asus cards had never actually used them before.
I’ll def. keep them in mind when I get around to shopping for one