Popular Mechanics: Zune is ugly cousin of iPod

Post by **complacent** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:09 pm

Article found hmah.

snaab · Post by **snaab** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:14 pm

It's brown? wtf? Beige finally fell out of use, and now they are making BROWN electronics? This reminds me of harvest gold kitchen appliances.

It's nice that it has a bigger screen, but I never quite understood the appeal of watching videos on a hand-held device. It's more of a battery life waster to me.

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:50 pm

at least their commericals are entertaining. but yes. never will i ever buy a zune.. I'm currently looking into one hte sandisk mp3 players, ive heard good things.

WRXWagon2112 · Post by **WRXWagon2112** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:20 pm

Hmmm ... I'm a little suspicious of that review. He's connecting the device to a Mac which is not one of Microsoft's strong points. Perhaps if he used a PC and sounded a little less of an iPod fanboi ...

Here's a good counter-review: Long but thorough review.

And frankly, I like the brown color. It's more like an olive-drab and gives it almost a military device kinda look. I still want a Creative Zen Vision:M instead, but I'll give MS credit with this. Looks like a good first-gen competitor to the iPod.

--Alan

Post by **Sabre** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:31 pm

WRXWagon2112 wrote:Hmmm ... I'm a little suspicious of that review. He's connecting the device to a Mac which is not one of Microsoft's strong points. Perhaps if he used a PC and sounded a little less of an iPod fanboi ...

Keep in mind, the Zune does not work with Vista right now...

WRXWagon2112 · Post by **WRXWagon2112** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:50 pm

However, this is an interesting observation based on the fact that your Zune account (Zune Tag) is the same as an XBox Live Gamertag account (which means the same pool of points that you use to buy things in the XBox world can be used in the Zune world and vice-versa):

ExtremeTech.com article wrote:Microsoft is this close from having The Unified System—download music, TV, movies, and games with one login and one pool of points and play them on your PC, your portable player, your Xbox 360, your cell phone. When you buy them once in one place, you could log in and re-download for free on another device. Don't forget that Live Anywhere will soon bring Xbox Live to cell phones and Windows Vista. The holy grail of media and entertainment digital distribution is a hairs' breath from happening. One login and ID for your game machine, cell phone, and PC entertainment stores, with shared ownership between all of them—content tied to accounts, not devices. Microsoft is perilously close to making it happen. Can they succeed in bringing it all together?

--Alan

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:52 pm

sorry did someone mention something about world domination?

for all those battletech fans....

Microsoft = Comstar?????

gsx-lex · Post by **gsx-lex** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:06 am

Ipod/DSM for life!