CrunchDeals: Damn that’s a cheap Zune

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by Vince Veneziani on October 22, 2007

Looks like Woot is selling the brown 30GB Zune for $79.99 + $5 shipping. If an $85 price tag isn’t a big enough incentive for someone to buy a Zune, then I don’t know what is. Maybe free Paul Oakenfold tickets with every purchase?

Comments

th - October 22nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm GMT+5

CG has turned into Nicko and VV’s shameless self-promotion weblog.

hannibalchew - October 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm GMT+5

steve lawler and sander kleinenberg tickets as well to make up for the ugliness of a brown brick with a hard drive and lcd screen.

Ryan - October 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm GMT+5

$85
$50
$12
still a zune

zs450 - October 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm GMT+5

It’s funny… people talk trash about the Zune all of the time because it’s from Microsft, it’s big, and they already have an MP3 player. I’ve got a Zune and everytime someone who trashes the Zune sees it, they change their tune. With the sub $100 ones showing up while they clear out the inventory before Zune 2.0 comes out next month, some of those same people are buying them now.

Keep in mind one important thing, this Zune will be updated and have all of the features of the new ones, the only difference will be the case and hard drive size. How many other manufactures will do that? I’m looking forward to being able to use the wireless sync so I can keep the Zune docked to my entertainment center another room and still keep my data current.

Ryan - October 22nd, 2007 at 7:52 pm GMT+5

actually my biggest issue with my Zune is the ginormis clumsy software install that comes along with it.

zs450 - October 22nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm GMT+5

I installed iTunes before…. not much better than Zune.

I do think they should have just linked it up with Media Player, but, that may have been an antitrust thing. It took some time to get used to using it instead of WMP, but, it’s the same thing in a different skin.

Jon - October 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm GMT+5

Great deal… but still 85$ too expensive in my opinion… and it looks like crap! zs450, it isn’t crap because Microsoft built it, it’s crap because of what Microsoft produced without taking the market seriously… it has billions in the bank yet produces third rate technology with those resources… what gives?

Zune 2 looks interesting but why they even produced a Zune 1 to begin with (Zune 2 should have been the Zune 1) is a mystery to me.

Jon

zach - January 17th, 2008 at 8:55 pm GMT+5

i have a black 30gb zune and it was the best investment i’ve ever made. the majority of the world runs on windows a microsoft product and have no problem with it. the zune is like windows vista, another invention they came out with that gets trashed on, and it’s not bad, many features that apple doesn’t have.

you cant trash talk till you’ve used one.