If you haven’t checked out the Zune you need to look again. The new Zune, which many are calling the Zune 2, will hit shelves and websites in just about two weeks and it’s better than ever. It has a killer screen for video and this little model comes with an 80 GB hard drive. To be honest I really do love iPods because of their simplicity, but their bloody, bloated, system resource devouring, price monopolizing, drm whoring iTunes has got to go. Granted Zune Marketplace might not be the saviour of digital downloads, but the Zune is a much more hackable device allowing clever users to use it in a variety of ways to play almost any type of media format including: wmv, wrm, avi, mp3, etc. I think the ability to play avi files alone is a big enough advantage to choose a Zune over an iPod, let alone the fact that you can share music wirelessly with other Zune users, sync the new Zune to your computer wirelessly, and watch video in wide screen mode on a display larger than the iPod’s.
Anyway, enough of that, just check the preorder site on Amazon
And if you want a quick comparison chart just check over here on Zunescape.
