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1. Comment - Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy

   (Sep 29, 2009 - 5:01 PM)

   Pro Microsoft...ok, sure, whatever. I use Windows because it works and is what is used most everywhere I go, though I am trying to get used to running Linux as that is where the money is at. Vista was good, once you got it working right, though I understand why a lot of people preferred to stay with XP. Windows 7 looks great, and I have enjoyed the beta. :-)
   
   Gaming systems, I have a Wii and a PS3. Xbox 360 looks good and would be nice for the easy Media Center extender, but I like the graphics on my PS3 more. Wii is innovative, but I haven't played on it since I bought the PS3. So much for your pro-anything-Microsoft.
   
   Phones. I enjoyed my Motorola Q with Windows Mobile 5, but traded it for an iPhone 3Gs, and I like the iPhone much better, now just waiting for the jailbreak for 3.1 firmware. :-)
   
   I've tried Microsoft Bing...Meh, back to Google. There is a reason why Googling has become a new word for search. Google Docs, good idea, but the office uses Microsoft, and I we have the home user license thing so I get the upgrades for the price processing and handling. Microsoft Web Office is interesting, but due to the nature of the documents I work on, I won't put them on the internet. (One of the main reasons for not using Google Docs. Give me a version I can put on my network without going outside, and I might try it again for serious work.) And Google Maps/Earth over whatever Microsoft is calling it these days. MapQuest is ok, but I haven't used it in years. Downloaded the iPhone app, but just doesn't stack up to the Google Maps that comes with it.
   
   There, so much for all the supposed Apple Haters being Microsoft shills. I would say I am pretty well rounded. :-)

2. Comment - Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy

   (Sep 29, 2009 - 4:46 PM)

   @fatty, probably about the same @pple is paying you to mock any pro-Microsoft article you can find.

3. Comment - Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy

   (Sep 29, 2009 - 4:44 PM)

   Must be something wrong with you eyes, third picture down (after the video) clearly shows what joe said about being able to read the white letters. And yes, I do have trouble reading my iPhone 3Gs in direct sunlight.

4. Comment - Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy

   (Sep 28, 2009 - 10:45 AM)

   @anonymousan I have to admin, with your first couple of posts I was just going to dismiss you as another crackpot, but a little further down, you had some better well thought out posts. I enjoyed reading the conversation between you and Joe with a few other posters thrown in. This is why I enjoy reading BetaNews. (idiot fanboys not withstanding. Hey, without them, who would we laugh at?)
   
   As far as I can tell, the Zune is starting to get to where it seems good. It also took the iPhone a little while to come into it's own. Personally, I didn't by mine until the 3Gs came out. (Bought a 3G a month before it came out and traded up for free) When it was mature. My first iPod was a 3rd gen video and I won it in a contest, or probably still wouldn't have one.
   
   I will keep watching the Zune, and eventually, it should mature and come into it's own. One of my biggest problems with the iPhone is no HD radio, or for that matter, no FM radio at all. That and wireless N would be nice, along with a much bigger hard drive. The idea of some sort of sleave that plugs into the iPhone/iPod Touch that adds analog/digital joysticks for gaming sounds intreaging, to say the least.
   
   And as long as we are asking about space in the Zune HD for a 3G/Bluetooth radio, don't forget the GPS and compass and the Wireless N to go along with the accelerometers.
   
   And as long as we are dreaming, add Wireless USB, Wireless HDMI and a wireless version of Apple/Intel's new Light Peak USB/Firewire replacement to both systems. :-)

5. Comment - Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy

   (Sep 28, 2009 - 10:11 AM)

   You know, I did the Micro$oft crap of changing the names back when I was 12 and thought it was cool, (ok, so I was in my mid-20's and changed the Win 95 boot screen to say Micro$oft) but the changing of names, such as iPot for iPod just makes you look like the fatty fanboy of Microsoft. If I am going to vote fatty down for it, I have to do it to everyone equally. Give it up and grow up.
   
   As for the Zune, I haven't tried it yet, but probably will when it matures. I enjoy my iPod and iPhone, just with they worked better with Window Media Center, as iTunes is still full of bloat. Other than that, I will stick with my Windows Machines in the workplace and my Hybrid Windows/Linux boxes at home.