Quick! Advise me before the ebay auction ends!

[daveky]

Oh, blimey. just realised the ipod doesn't have a radio. No! I need a rethink. Grr.

[AlexP]

And nor does the gigabeat F.  Check out the BuyersGuide page in the wiki, it may help you.

[psycho_maniac]

I would still pick a Gigabeat over a Ipod 5g any day of the week but thats just me

[cool_walking_]

Who needs a radio?  I haven't heard anything good on the radio in yonks.  It's all mainstream pop and hip-hop tripe.  The only good things they play are the classics, and since they are *classics*, I already have them all ripped...

I haven't used a Gigabeat for comparison, but I lesser-than three my Rockboxed iPod 5.5G.  I find the scroll wheel very convenient to use.  It's one of the slowest targets for video playback (not counting the Apple OF), but it's still completely watchable at 12 FPS fullscreen.

[scharkalvin]

The Gigabeat has the fastest cpu of all the players that support rockbox.
It has the fastest video frame rate support and the highest quality real time support of Monkey Audio.  Battery life (play time) is very good too.  Only thing it lacks is a radio.  But you can always buy a cheap Sansa and only use it for the radio, they're so small you can carry both if need be.  There have been a lot of bargins on Gigabeat F's on Ebay these past few weeks.  F10's for $70, F20's for $80 and F40's for $90-100 ... and these have been grade "A" reconditioned units too (in the original packing).  

[LambdaCalculus]

Even though I would really like to get my mitts on an iAUDIO X5, I can't afford to spend the nearly $300 USD that many eBay sellers are asking. So I may end up getting a Gigabeat F after the holidays.

[psycho_maniac]

I have used a Gigabeat for comparison to the ipod 5g and the ipod5g is very slow. I dont even use my ipod anymore.

[cool_walking_]

I have used a Gigabeat for comparison to the ipod 5g and the ipod5g is very slow. I dont even use my ipod anymore.

Slow in what way? Do you just mean video and APE?

[psycho_maniac]

Video and even the new Plugin  PictureFlow