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Karma hit me in the face.

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Bugsy:
Well, me and my friend are big rockbox-fans and bought ourselves iPod 5.5 80gb at the same time and rockboxed them.

My second rockbox, his first. After two months he looses his on the train, and I mock him for hit. Now, one year later I loose mine on the train.

 :-\

Well, lesson learned.

Anyways, I need help on two issues.
As I now have to find a replacement that I can rockbox, is there any player other than iPod that is really good to have rockbox on? I need atleast 60gb of space for all my music.

But, if I still go for an iPod, what prices should I expect for a iPod 5.5 80gb?

CharlesT:
Here's where I'd start looking.

http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZiPodQ205Q2e5Q2080gbQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

ct

AlexP:

--- Quote from: Bugsy on January 21, 2009, 05:08:42 PM ---As I now have to find a replacement that I can rockbox, is there any player other than iPod that is really good to have rockbox on?

--- End quote ---

I'd say most players Rockbox supports are better than the ipods to run Rockbox on - although the ipods are by no means bad.  However, if you want 60 GB or up, your only options for currently supported targets are a gigabeat F60 or X60, or the ipod 60 or 80 GBs, or an alternate player and change the hard disk, but that pushes the price up.  The gigabeat S60 port is very close also, but still suffers from battery life issues.  The S is my favourite personally, but I'm discounting it here as not ready.

Given all this, I'd recommend a gigabeat F or X over the ipods anyday, and the F can be had quite cheaply on ebay from time to time, although the F60 is harder to come by than the F40 (or F20).

As none of these are in production (the ipods included), I'd have a look on ebay to see what is available.

Also see www.rockbox.org/wiki/BuyersGuide

evilnick:
I have an F60 for sale, PM me for details.

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