Poor mans iPod
Just a quick note on a gadget that I bought the other day that is really cool. The bookstore had an Imation RipGO! mini-cd burner, reader and MP-3/WMA player on clearance so I picked it up. These were $400 when introduced an brand new at $48 it was a steal. The unit had problems burning discs (not with playing them) so I requested a warantee replacement with Imation. It was really easy to get the replacement and it came yesterday. I am now able to burn discs with it so that will be nice since my laptop only has a slot loading CD-RW so I can't write mini-CDs with it. Anyhow I can get just about 3 hours of MP-3s at 160K on a single 185MB disc and over 3 hours at 128K. Not a bad play time. The unit has about 3 hours of LiIo battery and seems to last me a couple of days of listening in the car and around campus/work.

The sound quality is excellent and 100% skip free. The headphones that came with it are not bad either. I am looking forward to getting some of the new 220-225 MB mini-CD blanks and will probably get close to 4 hours of playtime on a single disc. It will cost me alot less than an iPod in the long run and I am able to play the discs in any compuer that has a tray loading CD slot. When I get an iPod next year I can then xfer all the MP-3s over to it directly from the mini-CDs and still have the CDs as backup.
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