Well, I’ve more or less decided to buy myself an iPod over a Zen. Computercity has a 10Gb iPod for 4491 SEK. Sure, the Zen is cheaper and gives you 20Gb, but I still think the iPod wins the race.
Still need a Firewire card, though. I’ll team up with Magnus and order two Safeway 3-Port cards from Datorbutiken (he wants one for his stationary ‘puter) and split the shipping costs. 290 SEK for that card. Probably not the highest quality, but it’s not like my disks can toss over music to an iPod at 400Mbit/second anyway.
I already have 2000:- safely tucked away in a savings account labeled “Toys,” so that leaves 2781:- to fit into the budget for an iPod. Let’s see if I can do it this month. I have the studies to think of as well — I will probably need to threaten to firebomb CSN in order to get money from them. I got approved for a study loan starting January 7, but that got delayed so now I probably have to apply again. We’ll see.
(Later) Well, their web service still lists me, so I guess I just have to call them (yay! phone queue!) and change the start date and convince them that I do study full time, which they didn’t think the last time I called them.