New ipod?!

hmm, this is tricky.

Do I get the classic which could hold my 120GB library on the go, but at the end of the day it has hardly any improvements over the old iPod.

Or do I get this fancy iPod touch thingy which, to be honest, is practically a PDA.
 
A random name said:
the really small memory putting me off though.
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I'd hardly call it really small, more than enough for most people once people realize it's not a necessity to have a gigantic library of music on the go.

I don't see how people do it, 8Gb on my current iPod is all I use, that's 1100+ songs approx. Now I probably listen to about 200 of them on a daily basis. :o
 
If the touch was at least 20gb, I would buy one. I have the 30gb 5th gen at the moment and even though I have only used up 16gb of that, it would be nice to have some room to spare. And I simply cannot be bothered to sort out my libary :p

edit: just checked and i have actually used 21gb
 
After watching that 20 minute iPod touch presentation, I've decided that the iPod touch isn't an iPod though, it's an i-PDA.

I can't see my university lifestyle making a use of it. I'm not a business man sitting in Starbucks and I can't see when, in the UK, I'd honestly buy songs wirelessly on the go or use my iPod to browse the web. My laptop is just as good at these things.

Whilst I could live with 16GB of songs/videos at any given time, I'd rather carry about my entire 100+ GB library.

The touch is cool, although something I will expect all the techno geeks to own within the next few months, but at the end of the day it isn't strictly speaking a portable music player anymore. At the moment, it looks like iPod Classic. I will go and see both of them at the Apple store, and wait to see which I'd get most use out of at uni which I start in 3 weeks. We also have no idea how good the screen on the touch will be, until reviewers can confirm it's not crap I'm not paying anything.
 
Jihad said:
I'd hardly call it really small, more than enough for most people once people realize it's not a necessity to have a gigantic library of music on the go.

I don't see how people do it, 8Gb on my current iPod is all I use, that's 1100+ songs approx. Now I probably listen to about 200 of them on a daily basis. :o
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It is for me, over 6000 songs at over 30GB... I just have them on shuffle as there's very few I dislike.
 
It's not so much the number of songs, it's the quality you have them at.

Most of my songs are encoded in Apple Lossless because I have my PC linked to a Hi-Fi. The downside is each song is something ridiculous like 40MB.
 
Yeah, mine are at around 5mb a piece at 192 - 320. If I were to use FLAC or similar this would increase it to well over 120GB.
 
Tommy B said:
After watching that 20 minute iPod touch presentation, I've decided that the iPod touch isn't an iPod though, it's an i-PDA.

I can't see my university lifestyle making a use of it. I'm not a business man sitting in Starbucks and I can't see when, in the UK, I'd honestly buy songs wirelessly on the go or use my iPod to browse the web. My laptop is just as good at these things.

Whilst I could live with 16GB of songs/videos at any given time, I'd rather carry about my entire 100+ GB library.

The touch is cool, although something I will expect all the techno geeks to own within the next few months, but at the end of the day it isn't strictly speaking a portable music player anymore. At the moment, it looks like iPod Classic. I will go and see both of them at the Apple store, and wait to see which I'd get most use out of at uni which I start in 3 weeks. We also have no idea how good the screen on the touch will be, until reviewers can confirm it's not crap I'm not paying anything.
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Thing is, Wifi is next to useless - its quite limited, and very often you have to pay for it. Now if it was 3g then you could use it wherever - so I have come to the conclusion that the ipod touch is pretty usless next to an iphone.
 
Chrisp7 said:
Thing is, Wifi is next to useless - its quite limited, and very often you have to pay for it. Now if it was 3g then you could use it wherever - so I have come to the conclusion that the ipod touch is pretty usless next to an iphone.
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Yeah when I read the BBC news article I wasn't really that impressed with the Wi-Fi idea. You won't be able to get that everywhere. The iPhone and the iPod Touch seem to be almost exact clones of each other apart from the fact that one is a phone and one is an 'MP3' player.

I reckon Apple know that the Apple geeks will have to have an iPhone as well as an iPod Touch so they don't really care if people think they are so similar.

I'm more interested in the iPod. Never been interested in the smaller versions or the phone versions of iPod.
 
I think you'd have to be a serious nerd to have an iPhone and an iPod Touch when they're the same thing.

I've just sold my old iPod on the MM and am putting in an order for a 160GB iPod. It'll also mean I've got a backup of my entire music library so if anything were to happen to my HD I'd have a backup on the iPod. The iPod touch is impressive, but it's more of a limited PDA than a music player.
 
Went in to the Apple store today, the new iPod classics are very impressive. The silver one looked crap but the black one is awesome. I also liked the new interface. As soon as I've settled into uni I think I'll grab one.
 
Cheers for that Tommy B. I had feeling the silver one wouldn't look that good and that this time around I would prefer the black one. And when you say interface you mean the UI on the screen? I'm on a 4th gen iPod here with a black and white screen so if I get an iPod classic everything will be totally different for me.
 
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