Dell DJ vs Creative Zen

By American Ninja
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American Ninja

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A friend and I were talking on AOL last night and my friend wants to get a MP3 player and he narrowed it down to two choices the Dell DJ & Creative Zen.

So I figured I would post here to see what you would all recommend and help him out :)

Here is his post he posted on another forum:

I'm looking into getting an MP3 player this month, but I'm not quite sure what to get. I'd like at least 10GB of storage space and right now I've kind of narrowed it down to these two choices, as they're both affordable for me and have plenty enough space (the Dell DJ has 30GB while the Creative Zen has 40GB).

My question, basically, is if Dell is a reputable enough company with their DJ's to make it worth the extra money despite the 10GB less space I'd be getting (not that I'd get anywhere near that anyways, at least not based on my current collection of songs).

Dell DJ: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/p...specstab#tabtop

Creative Zen: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...duct_id=2689655

Note: I don't want an iPod. They're a bit too overpriced for me and don't have enough storage space.

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Monkeh

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They're both made by Creative (Dell just rebranded it). Their navigation system look the same, and I imagine their innards are pretty much the same too.

So no, the Dell DJ is not worth the extra money, even if Dell made it themselves (reputable?... Creative is the king of digital audio :/)

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The creative zen is much better. I faced the same desision and I am very glad I got the Zen Touch. First of all, the Dell DJ and Creative Touch do NOT have similar user interfaces. I like the zen's a lot more becuase once you get the hang of it it is much faster. (Vertical Touchpad). Also, I've talked to people at shcool who have bought dell DJ's and they have broken. The zen touch has the longest battery life of any portable music player (24 hours) and for only 216 bucks you get a 20gb product that is better than all the rest. It has a 97 dB sound quality (extremely good... a good cd player has 90). It has dedicated volume buttons so that it is easy to turn up the volume. Most importantly, it has a reset button, in case it freezes. (Ipods you have to send back to the company). You can also get an fm attatchment for your zen. The dell DJ's have lower batterly life, less sound quality, and aer less expensive!! It shouldn't be a hard decision...

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