If you end up reading my Epinions comment on the AIWA unit I bot, it had an AUX in port.
3rd party iPOD companies sell "transmitters" - wirelessly beaming out signals - you lock into a dead signal in the car or home. Saw it working - seemed to have some problems at home. Never a fan of that stuff as you will tend to get interference noise.
I believe Creative Labs had something about that too. The beauty with the cheapo CD player for the car, was that because it had an AUX-IN, every mp3 unit on the market can plug right into it. (the 3rd party Apple gear doesn't always move from one unit to another; akin to faceplates for cell phones, so bear that in mind).
I was looking at some iPOD gear a few months ago and came across the Bose iPOD SoundDock. A real beauty. Except they have a fatal flaw in my opinion. After you spend the big money, hope that they continue to offer inserts for future iPOD models, since there is no INPUT jack for any other unit (READ: Shuffle can't plug into it). When I asked technical support (yes I do go the extra mile) they came back with "we have no plans on offering any other method of connectivity". Great.
Another great site: http://www.ilounge.com/ Chitloads of reviews of everything iPOD. Even gadgets that would work on other non-Apple gear.
As I stated before without question the NANO is great for the glitz and you can get the 4GB model (most on the market today). However, if you end up getting a unit that uses SANDISK memory cards, your memory is unlimited.
(I read some really good "bad" stories about the Shuffle on epinions - people who wanted to move MP3 files had problems on PCs once they installed the iTUNES software. I heard cries of "don't install the iTUNES".)
To me the thought of going ANYWHERE and via the XP explorer moving files back and forth without adding software is just "fantastic".
At any rate, your impatient comment, would suggest that you should invest (that is what it is) in an iPOD. As for Quality? Epinions will tell you the poop. But I know for fact that the Nanos somehow are using a slightly different coating and is quite prone to scratches and many many many owners are up in arms.
(As you et al probably notice, to me features and value rate very high. Another review was my ASUS P4P800 MOBO - a "just right" MOBO. Nowadays I figure most things are made so crappy that I tend not to pay big money. I see zero value in carpeting my house with SONY gear - since if they are selling that stuff in WMT, how good can it be? Yet there are many that still believe.)
I prefer to know what I can do, than to be told what I should do.
John et al, Happy Holidays and Cheers! B
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To all would be lurkers and regular readers of this great forum, one can only assume that I Sexton Osiris Blake (aka Son of a Bose SoundDock basher) is, in a word, quite obsolete.... in the Twilight Zone.
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