Alienware CE-IV 1GB MP3 player and Docking Hub Review - Page 2

Gotcha on the cable thing maxrule .... but i was wondering if the dock allowed the iPod to actually connect directly to it .... my thought and/or fear is loss of audio quality by starting to go thru additional cables , etc. i just have not been successful in finding out if the dock would accomodate a direct connection without wires, cables, etc.... still looking though ... i might get the docking station regardless ... it sounds really nice ... certainly looks good too .....

of course not, the dick is desgined for the alienware mp3 player. Their is literally thousand sof ipod docks/sound systens out their.

well , thank you ...... i was so unsure of that ,,,,, i was trying to see if there was a transformational unit to allow the iPod to dock onto !! Thank You so very much for your help and insight ....

Too bad I bought a 1G IPod Shuffle... I would much rather have that, I think it's because the review was not published yet

THANKS!

dexxr ... you bet. I got the 40gig iPod and currently have almost a thousand tunes on it .... not willing to give it up or to start over. I know there are ways to usb it in or some other method , but i was hoping to see if there was a unit out there that would allow the iPod to actually sit in the dock. Does not look promising ..... if time was on my side, i would have gotten the aw unit ... and just to get off my soapbox .... had they had an iPod conversion ability ... i think they would be selling a ton more of these dockers ...

Am i the only one who caught this typo?

hahahahahahahah ^ nice one,

I know I'm late! But hell yeah! This is a great review! Congrats!

Nope

-Mark

i am in canada québec is somebody know a store where we can buy it

thanks you

Do u think the alienware docking station would work with a cowon iAudio X5 60GB? Cuz i would totally buy one if it does

hey i recently bought the 512 verison of this... its just 512 mb and different colors... mines black and orange .... quick question if you can answer it for me? It has an expandable SD card slot... would you happen to know what the biggest SD card I can get? I have read 512MB - 4 gigs if you can answer my question I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'm not sure, but I doubt it is limited. Mine won't boot, but I'm recharging my batteries right now. Is there a firmware upgrade out there somewhere? If anyone has any ideas about the non-booting let me know. I transferred music to it from WMP via the Synch tab and USB cable and the screen came on and the synch was sucessful, but I can't get it to boot up when I stick a battery in.

got mine today... its pretty sweet... didnt think it was going to be this small and the boom box kicks ass ... but the question still is how much i can put in it... i dont wanna waste my money and than it not working you know? anyone that has this? how much Memory do u have it? mannnnn this is tougher than i thought .... didnt think it would be that hard to find out haha

I just wish mine worked. Its DOA and refuses to boot, I tried 6 batteries. I put a 512 in there, but since it won't boot I can't even tell ya if that'll work. I heard 2 gig was the max it would read (even though manual says 512). it and see if you find anything.

A few more things

So I got the 512MB kit offa woot.com for $85 shipped..then it appeared in Bay Area Fry's ad for $100 with the 1gb player (good til Aug 22 2006! and only $130 after that)...so I got that and I'm gonna give the 512 to my girlfriend.

I put a 2GB Kingston SD card that was on sale for $25 after rebate...so I have a 3 gig player for $125 with a sweet sound dock. awesome. I considered ordering a 4gb card but wanted to buy it from a store so I could return it if it didnt work but I don't have to. Also, navigating through 4gb file by file would be tedious, since the CE-IV doesn't have menu-style song selection...just a big list of all your mp3s file by file. And, you have to switch between internal and external memory manually; it doesn't treat the two as one big drive. Some drawbacks, but still a great usable player at a great price with the sound dock. It could also be advantageous if you want to have two separate groups of music (i.e. using the internal memory for working out and the external music for the rest of the stuff you wanna listen to...etc.)

Also, the dock powers the MP3 player so you don't need even need batteries when you're docked. Unfortunately, it doesn't charge a rechargable battery if there's one in the player (although the manual says you can buy an adapter to connect an AC adapter to the CE-IV to charge a battery while it's in the player...I'm just gonna take it out and pop it in a charger.

You might have read reviews online that complain about a flimsy battery cover. It's not that bad. Seriously. You'd have to be pretty rough with it to break it.

The removable docking thing also fits really well underneath a car stereo in most cars, then just plug an aux input 3.5mm phone plug into the back of the dock for clean mobile tunes while the mp3 player sits right up in front of your head unit so you can skip tracks and stuff.

Final take: get this if you want a cheap relatively low capacity (512MB-3GB) player and like listening to a bunch of songs rather than picking out individual songs (which is inconvenient due to the lack of genre->artist->album->song type menu system). Shoot, even if you just have an iPod, buy it for the dock and give the player

For real??? Lets see the damage!