Seth Cohn <sethc...@gnuhampshire.org> writes: > > > It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, > > refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's > > mailing for $24.99. > > Woot! often has refurb Sansas at good prices. > > Also, consider installing Rockbox on many different models for better > Linux compatibility.
Also, note that there are outstanding issues with Rockbox on the newer Sansa hardware (anything manufactured in the past year or so), cf.: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMS ... but, if you're buying a refurbished one, then maybe you'll be able to get one that's sufficiently old. I'm a longtime Rockbox user, and I'm still very enthusiastic about it, but the whole `firmware for reverse-engineered platforms (produced by more-or-less hostile third parties)' premise of the project has resulted it being a sort of learning-experience that leads me to be /more/ enthusiastic about `open hardware' projects when I see them-- things like what Neuros, Openmoko, Qi Hardware, OpenPandora, et al. are doing. Luckily, the Sansa devices seem to be nigh indestructible--so if you get one onto which you can load Rockbox, you shouldn't need to worry much about how you'll never be able to replace it when it breaks :) If my Rockbox'd iPod breaks, on the oher hand.... I guess I should figure out how I'm going to handle that.... -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/