This is deal is for U.S. residents only.
We’ve got yet another deal if you missed out on the 30GB Zunes for $100, and you think that brown is the new black. Woot is slashing the price of the brown Zune media player back to $80 simply because “people don’t like brown Zunes.” Tack on the $5 shipping charge and you’ve got yourself a 30GB media player for a mere $85!
Seeing that this thing can double as a file storage solution (with a small hack) is enough to make anyone think long and hard about picking one of these up. As always with Woot deals you do not know how long it will be before these things sell out, and Woot is trying to comfort people who are contemplating the purchase of an “ugly” brown Zune:
People love bulldogs because they’re so ugly. Bags of defective jellybeans sell just as well as the regular ones. And the most valuable stamp in the world is the one with the airplane printed upside down.
If brown is a bit much Woot is also selling the black and white versions of the Zune on their Yahoo! partner site, but those still have the $100 price tag on them. The Zune 2 release date is set for sometime in November, but the original Zune (the one on sale at Woot today) will be getting many of the same features via a software upgrade.
jesus christ this is free!!!!
I want it…how can I get it in Europe?
Pleaaaase!!!!
You said it doubles as a hard drive. Zune (still) doesn’t have removable disk support, and this is reported to not be available in the upcoming software update either. There are hacks to use the Zune as a HD, but it requires havin Zune software installed and hacked registry on any computer you will access the files with. Also, to update files on the device, you must have Zune software syncing media in the background.
This is a big feature the Zune NEEDS.
That’s pretty lame if it doesn’t have removable disk support…I was starting to consider, but no way.
Um, is there a reason there is not a link to the product?
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Sold Out.
Well, that’s a good reason.
Oops, I had assumed that it had that feature because my friend uses his as a hard drive. He just told me that he had to use the registry hack though, but he said it was really easy.
The hack is pretty easy though, but it’s too late to pick one of them up now.
Guess I forgot to link to the Woot homepage. Looks like the last one made it out the door around 11:23AM Central Time.
I guess if you’re just backing up stuff for yourself it’d be OK. The problem is I would like to use it to bring files with me, and installing Zune software then modifying the registry on any computer I go to is either not possible or too much hassle, depending on if the PC has deepfreeze or admin access.
That’s true. My friend mostly uses his for backups since he has a 2GB flash drive for all of his files.