Help! present for my 13 yr. old
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Help - my son turns 13 today. Is this the same child who just yesterday (or at least seems like it) was wastching his favorite movie "The Little Wormaid"? Yes, he actually thought they were saying wormaid and he loved Ariel. I digress . . .
Anyway here's the scoop. He is dying for an iPod to load up a few tunes. I went online to BB and CC just to see what was available. He wants the Nano 1gb which is selling everywehre for $149.99. It says that 1gb will hold about 240 songs. Also, his grandparents want to add to this by getting something "ipodish". I think that there are bases you can put them in that have some small speakers. Thoughts, anyone have either? I think 1gb should be big enough, but I just don't know. Thanks for the help
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Buy the kid a 5 gigger and teach him not to compress his music so much! I know; not helpful. I know nothing about iPods but something about compression!
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there's a 4 gb for $249 - I love the boy to death but $249???? Since I won't be listening to the stuff he may just have to deal with the compression. At 13 if I don't tell he won't know
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I think that the Ipod Nano would be good enough for starters. He can upgrade to something bigger if he ever needs to. But as a present for a 13 years old I think the Nano would be apropriate. That's just my opinion of course and I tend to be kinda frugal (I guess my wife would disagree somewhat... )
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OK.... get him the Nano but tell him it's a special, high-quality, 120-song Limited Edition!
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First, you definitely need to buy a case for the Nano. It may not be something he'll get excited over, but they are very prone to scratching. As far as anything else goes, I'm clueless. But if I were buying one for myself, I'd definitely change out the stock earbuds for something that sounds better.
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The one gig Nano will be a great present for him.
They are meant to be portable music devices not something that you store your entire music collection on. I find the stock ear buds to be ok. I also second the notion about getting a cover for it. I think that they come with them now anyhow don't they?
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Then the special, limited edition nano it is. Gonna tell wifey it's the Nano LE.
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