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11/27/2007, 1:15pm, EST
Tuesday, November 27thZune 80's battery life well below iPod?
The just-launched Zune 80 may fall well short of the iPod classic in battery performance, according to benchmarking performed by CNET. The site reports that the hard disk-based player runs for 22 hours with Wi-Fi disabled, eight hours short of the competing 80GB iPod's official figure of 30 hours. Switching Wi-Fi on without using it drops battery life to about 18.5 hours, the tests show. By contrast, Electronista's iPod classic review netted 32.5 hours before time constraints forced an early end; CNET's own review generated about 45 hours of runtime.
No direct explanation is provided for the discrepancy other than the larger screen, which is 3.2 inches versus the Apple player's 2.5 but shares the same 320x240 screen resolution. Both have recently seen both battery life increases counterbalanced by visual upgrades to their interfaces, but share similar drive technology.
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The iPod IS consistently light-years ahead of the Zune. People root for Microsoft to keep up, but they just aren't doing it. The public agrees:
http://comparati.com/883-Zune-vs-iPod
So you're basing your entire 'working well' argument on battery life? Interesting. So if a Zune 85 is released tomorrow with twice the battery life, will you recant your comments? Or are you just using this to do the normal "The Zune sucks so much compared to the iPod!" rants?
And have you even tried a Zune (no, looking at it doesn't count)?
Maybe thats why MS partnered with Ford and Apple with BMW, Merc, and Porsche. MS = cheap junk that ends up costing you 100x more in the long run. Get it through your thick heads once and for all.
Or maybe its that MS see it's clientelle as the 'regular guy', while Apple seems themselves as an elitist company who only wants to deal with people willing to shell out way too much money for some material possession that says "Hey, look at me, I'm so shallow and insecure I drive a BMW to make me feel important, and I'm so much better than you pitiful Honda drivers".
And I've never heard anyone who drives a Porsche, Mercedes, or BMW who proclaim how cheap their car are in the long run. Their problems cost more to fix, they usually require the more expensive, higher end gas and their resale values tend to plummet as much as a Taurus.
Next time, leave the car analogies to the "people still buy the over priced crap!" line, and don't try to bring it into the TCO discussion. It just doesn't work.
Apple products are as well priced as MS just ms doesnt make things so well. What do you expect? this is an apple news site so people are going to stick up for apple makes sense really.
Ms make the 360 and i have one and love it but everything else is a no.
Apple allways bring out better stuff faster and more reliable and deserve every bit of success.
i'm sure many zune owners are happy with their purchase but let me reiterate: i don't care.
Here is why. zune G2 isn't a half-way bad player, if it wasn't for the iPod. So it isn't sooo bad. Which means, it's kinda good. And this is where MS gets caught. If it looks anything like good, they figure people will really want to have them. With this in mind, they try to figure every twisted thing they can to squeeze cash from the end user.
Vista is like this, zune is like this. Compare price points for either product and Apple invariably comes out on top. As for car metaphors-I kind of agree, they're a bit off. BTW: MS is not for the little guy, try, out to get the little guy. Thinking that MS's offerings represent quality or value is a weak argument. TCO is won by Apple with it's present offerings.
Spinning zune, won't change the fact that the market is better informed than it used to be insofar as technology is concerned. MS will not compete well against an informed consumer base. They never have. This isn't 1986. Astroturfing just seems desperate.
My Saturn had to have the timing chain replaced about the same time my friend's Audi timing chain had to be replaced.
My repair cost a LOT less. I haven't really had to have anything else done except maintain it and that cost less too.
The analogy just doesn't work here.