Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Creative Zen X-Fi
It stands for Extreme Fidelity. It is by Creative, and do you know Creative? I Think not. It is a shame, as Creative created the patent for the formats and designs that are now used by Apple's players. Creative sued, but Apple acted to fast, and was too rich to lose by the time. So you may use your iPods, your evil iPods, but here me out on this new, Xtremely incredible Zen.
The Zen X-Fi uses a technology that not only transfers music at perfectly lossless quality easily, it restores and IMPROVES quality, making the music sound like those half a thousand dollar Bose speakers you got in your rich ass iPod filled living rooms. It erases quality errors, like little noises and rings that are common when burning in lower kbps, and improves bass and acoustic quality of the music. It's that rich, pure quality that makes you feel like you are in heaven.
The Creative Zen X-Fi includes of course video, music, and picture capability, just like your evil little iPods do!
It also has a microphone to record voice/music, a built in radio, a built in speaker, an SD/SDHC card slot, 16.7 million colors for the 2.5 inch TFT screen, and for the Lan version of the X-Fi a built in LAN reciever to chat on your favorite chat accounts like Yahoo Messenger and WLM at LAN hotspots. The LAN also lets you connect to your at home network to sync and stream files wirelessly straight to your Zen X-Fi.
And if thats not enough, it comes with Creative's high quality EP-830 ear buds, and lets you listen to not only WMA and MP3 but also your evil little iTunes AAC songs (.m4a). Plus, the player doesn't only work with iTunes as iPods do. Zens work with tons of music download stores including Napster and WMP's store.
The only draw backs are that the Zen X-Fi is a bit thicker than the iPod, but with all that stuff it is VERY reasonable. It also is only sold up to 32 GB, but I know only one person who actually filled their 120 GB iPod and he is rich, so he can afford tons of shit. As for me, my Zen Vision: M holds 30 GB and I'm only a third way through its capacity. At high quality (Like 330 kbps WMA) I have about 1000 songs which fills about 10 GB. But at your average 128 mbps which a lot of people keep at, that would be half the amount of GB for 1000 songs.
And the punchline, the full Zen X-Fi with LAN 32 GB is sold at only $250 dollars. Sure the evil iPod Classic holds 120 GB and is $250, but the trade off IS exremely reasonable, especially when 80% of people don't even fill 30 GB like me and all my friends.
Main Link: http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product
Other Links: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Player-Wireless-Built-Speaker/dp/B001CB0RT0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1241230475&sr=1-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_ZE%20N
Enjoy.
The Zen X-Fi uses a technology that not only transfers music at perfectly lossless quality easily, it restores and IMPROVES quality, making the music sound like those half a thousand dollar Bose speakers you got in your rich ass iPod filled living rooms. It erases quality errors, like little noises and rings that are common when burning in lower kbps, and improves bass and acoustic quality of the music. It's that rich, pure quality that makes you feel like you are in heaven.
The Creative Zen X-Fi includes of course video, music, and picture capability, just like your evil little iPods do!
It also has a microphone to record voice/music, a built in radio, a built in speaker, an SD/SDHC card slot, 16.7 million colors for the 2.5 inch TFT screen, and for the Lan version of the X-Fi a built in LAN reciever to chat on your favorite chat accounts like Yahoo Messenger and WLM at LAN hotspots. The LAN also lets you connect to your at home network to sync and stream files wirelessly straight to your Zen X-Fi.
And if thats not enough, it comes with Creative's high quality EP-830 ear buds, and lets you listen to not only WMA and MP3 but also your evil little iTunes AAC songs (.m4a). Plus, the player doesn't only work with iTunes as iPods do. Zens work with tons of music download stores including Napster and WMP's store.
The only draw backs are that the Zen X-Fi is a bit thicker than the iPod, but with all that stuff it is VERY reasonable. It also is only sold up to 32 GB, but I know only one person who actually filled their 120 GB iPod and he is rich, so he can afford tons of shit. As for me, my Zen Vision: M holds 30 GB and I'm only a third way through its capacity. At high quality (Like 330 kbps WMA) I have about 1000 songs which fills about 10 GB. But at your average 128 mbps which a lot of people keep at, that would be half the amount of GB for 1000 songs.
And the punchline, the full Zen X-Fi with LAN 32 GB is sold at only $250 dollars. Sure the evil iPod Classic holds 120 GB and is $250, but the trade off IS exremely reasonable, especially when 80% of people don't even fill 30 GB like me and all my friends.
Main Link: http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product
Other Links: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Player-Wireless-Built-Speaker/dp/B001CB0RT0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1241230475&sr=1-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_ZE%20N
Enjoy.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Windows Vista - It's Worth it Now
So recently I got a new computer, a pretty good HP Pavilion. It came with Vista home premium pre-installed. and one of my first thoughts was, "I hope Vista is down gradable to XP", but apparently you can't downgrade, but I'm not 100% sure.
I still tried it out though, pretty excited because I had longed for a new computer for a while (I had a Pentium 2 motherboard!) and so the excitement made me forget about the OS. But Vista actually turned out to be great, and is still great.First, I updated, and everything came in smoothly except for one update for some fax thing, but that's just one out of 50 updates. The updates included Service Pack 1, which I was very excited about because I knew that people were having issues with Vista and its bugs, and I was not aware SP1 had been released. After that, I changed settings and did registration for everything, like the Norton software it comes with (60 days, but I'll install the Norton I have when the trial is over). I also got rid of the side bars on the desktop, those are just extra crap, so now my desktop looks nice and clean.
*One setting I was VERY great full for was that I was able to change the theme to windows classic! On my other computer, I became accustomed to using the classic theme from windows '98 on XP. So now, Vista on my new computer has SP1 AND it looks and feels simple and solid like Xp and '98. Delicious.So it now seems as if I'm using XP, but much, much better! It's awesome! :)
One thing is that Vista still requires more ram usage than normal, so get Vista only if you have a pretty good Pentium 4 (or equivalent) computer or better. I, personally, now have a Pentium Dual core (2GHz), with 3GB of ram, and a 7100 GeForce Graphics card.
In all, I would say that it is very safe to purchase Vista now for all those who are afraid. It is reliable and has the majority of its bugs fixed with Sp1, and with how customizable it is, it is very easy to become comfortable with it.
I still tried it out though, pretty excited because I had longed for a new computer for a while (I had a Pentium 2 motherboard!) and so the excitement made me forget about the OS. But Vista actually turned out to be great, and is still great.First, I updated, and everything came in smoothly except for one update for some fax thing, but that's just one out of 50 updates. The updates included Service Pack 1, which I was very excited about because I knew that people were having issues with Vista and its bugs, and I was not aware SP1 had been released. After that, I changed settings and did registration for everything, like the Norton software it comes with (60 days, but I'll install the Norton I have when the trial is over). I also got rid of the side bars on the desktop, those are just extra crap, so now my desktop looks nice and clean.
*One setting I was VERY great full for was that I was able to change the theme to windows classic! On my other computer, I became accustomed to using the classic theme from windows '98 on XP. So now, Vista on my new computer has SP1 AND it looks and feels simple and solid like Xp and '98. Delicious.So it now seems as if I'm using XP, but much, much better! It's awesome! :)
One thing is that Vista still requires more ram usage than normal, so get Vista only if you have a pretty good Pentium 4 (or equivalent) computer or better. I, personally, now have a Pentium Dual core (2GHz), with 3GB of ram, and a 7100 GeForce Graphics card.
In all, I would say that it is very safe to purchase Vista now for all those who are afraid. It is reliable and has the majority of its bugs fixed with Sp1, and with how customizable it is, it is very easy to become comfortable with it.
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