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pottymouth wrote:

Do you want the space or do you want the intarweb?

That's where I am torn at to carry all my music or not that is the question. Guess I just need to go to the Apple store after the holidays and play with them some more.

I was in the same situation. Thought about it for a few weeks and ended up going with the touch.
I'm very glad I did so, it's great, especially if you get installer and put on a bunch of extra goodies.

I like the Classic, but that's only because I'm greedy and like to have ALL my music with me at one time.

It's a tough call, that's for sure.

Graphic Autist wrote:

I'm greedy and like to have ALL my music with me at one time.

Same here. Guess I'm shooting for a high end Nano if I ever get an iPod.

The Touch is my first iPod. Waited forever to get a touchscreen one. It simply rules. When the classic was released I thought about getting the 160GB as that would be a great portable drive. I came to the conclusion that after Christmas I could find an old 80GB video to store all my music. Do you have a laptop? I have a macbook pro, however I use my Touch to check on things really fast as its " always on" in sleep mode. No need to wait on a bootup to check some email over wifi. If you dont have a laptop I say definitely get the Touch (16gb if you can swing it)

I have an iPhone, so obviously it would be silly for me to get a TOUCH too, but assuming I didn't have it, still think that I'd get the classic: 

A) I am a film guy and although the screen on the Touch is MUCH better, having to move files back and forth all the time is not my scene, I want to have all my music and like 50 movies one device at all times. 

B) The internet on the touch doesn't do much for me.  I only have WiFi at work and home (at least reliably, and when I go to a café that I know has WiFi I bring my computer) so the only places I can use the internet on it, I would most likely have a access to my computer...  so why use that little screen. 

So for me, the better screen and internet aren't worth having one 10th of the space of a classic.  That being said the Touch is awesome, and I still desire it, I just probably wouldn't buy it when it came time to hand cash to Apple... but if it were Free

Well, when I bought my iPod (30gb 5th gen), I bought it because I could carry any and all of my music with me.  I didn't care about video at all.  Now, I have surpassed it's 30 gb limits, and have realized that out of all of the music on it, I really don't listen to even half of it.  Sure, I set it to shuffle and listen to what comes up, but I skip a lot more than I listen to. 

The 8 gb Touch would be more than enough to satisfy what I want to listen to most of the time.  Sure, I could get the 80 gb Classic, but I really don't need it.  There's no reason for me to have 7500 songs everywhere (which is what I'm at right now).  That and the Touch is just 'effin cool.

There is no way I could live with out either my touch or my 60gig iPod video. So I have both and I am debating getting a nano or a shuffle for mowing because I don't like to take my good ipods out when I am doing yard work or biking.

Yes, those issues were fixed very quickly and affected only a small number of iPod touches.

Were there any changes to the iPod Touch after Macworld besides the new apps? Any hardware changes? I am starting to see some lower prices on iPod Touches without the new apps. For example, Target is now selling the 16G for 379.99 without the apps. So they are giving you the apps if you choose to buy them and a lower price if you don't. So, if it is the same device that is a deal. If there is any difference, that is not such a good buy.

We bought our first iPod last fall: a refurb. previous generation Nano from the online Apple store.  Last weekend we bought an iPod Touch and  I  freaking LOVE it.  I can understand the argument about keeping ALL of one's music on an iPod but, come on, it is SO EASY to swap media into and out of an iPod, what does it matter? 

The larger screen, the internet and email access, the widgets, etc, are what sold me on the Touch.

Last edited by mdensch (2008-02-27 4:21 pm)

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