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Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox (6GB of storage) 43% off at Amazon!

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bigbigsavings

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Now THIS is a deal. I've never seen anything that looked as neat as this thing (well, perhaps those "coming soon" models), but this is truly beautiful. Ranks #5 on the Amazon Sales Rank right now, so these will go fast. Here's the link:

Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox (silver)

List Price: $749.99
Our Price: $429.94
You Save: $320.05 (43%)
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.

Alex
 
Shame, such a great product but they had to make it SDMI-compliant. I bet the people that were buying it for $500 a few days ago are pissed now.
 
I don't own nor have I held one of these in my hands, but I'm sure Creative did plenty of testing on this thing, and it should be quite durable. Although, I'm a bit curious myself.

Alex
 
if you buy using buy.com go thru ebates and through pointclick and get 3% and 5% off! or another 33.60 off for a total of around $370. Not bad!

Also, the Amazon price is not so good. The actual retail price is $499 on Creative's own site, so the discount is actually only 14 percent!
 
You get 0% back from buy.com with Pointclick, last time I checked. Which was yesterday, but maybe it changed? 🙂
And I'm not sure if you can 'stack' ebates and Pointclick. Might be able to do it, since I don't think they require you to place orders through their site, with the little bar on top the whole time. Just send the order info to them and fill out the reimbursement form, etc...
 
this is a really good price, especially for this setup. i dont' know if i'd use it as a mobile device to lug around though. would be an awesome addition to your car though, you'd never have to worry about changing cds, burning them for your car, etc again.

 
I am very tempted to buy this thing too but the battery life is only 4 hours! You just know that they will release one in 6 months that's smaller and has 3 times the battery life. Very cool product though.
 
Let me put your fears to rest: THis device is very, very sturdy. I played with one for awhile, and it's the same size and weight as your average portable CD player (if anything, it's lighter). It's incredibly durable -- I saw it dropped, shaken, abused, and the music never skipped and the unit was never damaged.

The only real risk I see is that it seems ridiculous to buy this thing during its first couple weeks on the market. The price will fall, especially as competitors release different models.
 
i read an artical about those in a computer shoper mag.. and they said that it was sturdy but they also said that the list price was $500.00
 
I bought one of the Easybuy MP3 CD Players, and now I feel that I should sell it quick, and grab one of these 6gb suckers as soon as their price drops. I'd much rather keep tranferring files onto this thing that burn new cds for the cd player. Fall, price, fall!

Alex
 
That seems like a cool unit...but check out this baby...

Neo 35 Jukebox for $266/shipped
Neo 35 at CompGeeks
Review of the Neo:
mp3car review

Add a 30 gb hard drive like this one for $96/shipped after rebate
30gb Quantum lct15 at Buy.com

How's that for a 30gb mp3 player, under $370? No need to worry about SDMI either! 😉

I have this combination and all I have to say is WOW. It works like a champ. The only problem I had with the Neo was that the internal hdd power connector on mine was way too tight and wouldn't power the hdd. I just resoldered a new connector instead of theirs and it works fine now. I recommend this unit to anyone looking for a nice mp3 jukebox.
 
Speaking of Neo.. I have the Neo25 portable. I've wound up putting about $350 into this setup, but..

Neo-25 from Compgeeks - $214
4.3Gig Notebook drive from compgeeks - $82
140W power inverter from Walmart - $39 <00- Cause this fukr needs 5V and all the adapters do 4.5 or 6...
Sony Cassette/Line In adapter from Walmart - $10 <-- I have no AUX in...

$214
$ 82
$ 39
$ 10
----------
$345

I get a power inverter out of the deal so I can also use other pluginables..

My next car purchase will be a Aiwa CDmp3 player..

Battery life on the Neo25 is supposed to be 1.5 hours.. but I haven't checked.. and after having 900 songs on a portable.. 4.3 Gig is all I should ever need... It's just tooo many songs to go through..

jp
 
Open Source MP3 Project: $150 ( 5.75&quot; x 4&quot😉
Simm for Buffering: Free to $30
20 Gig Notebook Drive (2.5&quot😉 : $399 --- Or a cheapie 3.5&quot; drive like the 30 gigger listed above. Hey is supports any IDE hard drive.
Rechargable NiMH for mobility: ~$4.00
Wall Wart: $5.99 if you want at in House
Wire for in Car: Free to $10
Case to make it cool! : Free to whatever it takes
Fun Project: Priceless

Uses a 24 bit DAC!!!
No need from crappy inverters. System designed for flexibility and expandablity from the start. Open source firmware to do whatever you please. With Support for ATAPI CD-Rom support soon.
Battery Life using 2.5&quot; Drive with Simm Buffering is expected to be 6 Hours!
 
Creative Labs came to our campus and demoed this Nomad Jukebox. THe rep. said that the Jukebox had upwards of 40+ secs in music buffer for skip protection. Also told me the unit retailed for $499 where at that point I walked away trying not to laugh...


-Jimbo
 
My next (and final) mp3 player purchase for my car will be the PhatBox, I mean it beats all of them, it works right with your current car system, it can't get any better than that, no extra crap to install, no wires to run, no cassette adaptors to buy where music quality would blow, just plug it right in to your current CD Changer cable and you're in business, pump mp3s through your car stereo and you can even control it with the car stereo.

you guys buy what you want, but I'm waiting for the PhatBox.
 
That PhatBox is cool.. until I read the part about it being a &quot;custom&quot; Linux OS. They're violating the GPL if they don't publish the modified sources. I don't see a link for it yet.
 
I have a question

why does a hard drive need buffering? I mean if the drive skips, you're screwed, that arm just smacked against the platters and it wouldn't be working anymore anyway.

Am I wrong?? I never understood this, I have a Mp3 Changer with no skip protection and I've never had the IDE hard drive &quot;skip&quot;.
 
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