What Do You Think of the new iPods?

Spiral Girl · #1 September 7th, 2007, 05:12 PM

Hello,

Well I certainly was doing the happy dance when I saw the new iPod line up. This past January I was given money towards an iPod and have waited this long because I kept hearing a new one was coming out. Of course the widescreen was the one I wanted as I've never owned an iPod.

Now that they are all out for the world to see I don't know which one to get. Obviously I want the gadget part of the iPod Touch and the coolness factor but 8 GB is small and that is the only one I can afford. Plus iPhones haven't even come out in Canada so I think the Touch will be a big hit here. Then again the new nano's are adorable with great new colours. The reason I never bought a nano before was because there was no video. Again I have no idea if 8 GB will be enough. This brings me to the classic which is perfect as far as space because my collection can grow with either the 80GB or 160GB model. The only problem I miss out on the widescreen option and wifi of the Touch.

Decisions, decisions. Maybe I'm the only one having a hard time deciding. I've watched the keynote speech by Steve Jobs and went ga ga goo over the new iPods. Then I watched all the sample videos on apple.com (for some reason I couldn't get them to work on apple.ca, I kept getting Quicktime symbol with the question mark inside).

S.

karavite · #2 September 7th, 2007, 05:18 PM

I personally am thrilled. I confess, I do not yet own one. I worked at home for years and my Mac is essentially my iPod and has been since the day iTunes came out. And this is a guy who has owned 12 Macs and was an early Newton adopter! However, this will change. The new line up is very appealing to me, but now it is too hard for me to choose! At first I thought Nano all the way, but the Touch UI is very appealing to me. However, when you have a "classic" iPod with 80GB for under $300, well, that is a no brainer for me. Of ocurse if there was a 80 GB touch with some of the cool Nano colors for under $300 that would be it! :-)

nixgeek · #3 September 7th, 2007, 05:29 PM

While I wouldn't get an iPhone (now mainly because I'm happy with T-Mobile since the price is no longer an issue), the iPod touch is definitely something I would purchase. I was looking at the Nokia N800 but it looks like the iPod touch can do pretty much the same thing I want to do on the N800, but with the elegance of Apple.

**fryke** · #4 September 7th, 2007, 08:04 PM

I'd go for the iPod touch 8 GB then, if that's the one you can afford. Both 8 and 16 GB will feel restrictive if you have a growing media archive. (And believe me: Owning an iPod makes it seem growing ever faster...) But once you've accepted that not _all_ of your media fits on that iPod, you can set up lists that work for you. The screen, I hear, is really worth it considering video. Plus: You don't want to watch the same ten movies over and over again, right? You'll watch the ones you haven't watched yet, mostly. So the ones you've _already_ watched don't have to reside on the iPod necessarily.

Lt Major Burns · #5 September 7th, 2007, 08:32 PM

why oh why oh why did they not just stick an 80gb single-platter hdd in the touch and be done with it? it'd still be thinner than the iPhone probably...

solve all problems all at once.

nixgeek · #6 September 7th, 2007, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

I'd go for the iPod touch 8 GB then, if that's the one you can afford. Both 8 and 16 GB will feel restrictive if you have a growing media archive. (And believe me: Owning an iPod makes it seem growing ever faster...) But once you've accepted that not _all_ of your media fits on that iPod, you can set up lists that work for you. The screen, I hear, is really worth it considering video. Plus: You don't want to watch the same ten movies over and over again, right? You'll watch the ones you haven't watched yet, mostly. So the ones you've _already_ watched don't have to reside on the iPod necessarily.

This is very true, and one of the reasons I haven't bought a large capacity iPod in the past. I have a 4 GB nano that has yet to be filled to capacity. I have about 18 albums and 14 podcasts that I listen to. I only have the iPod load the podcasts that I haven't listened to yet, so it conserves space.

So far, I'm only using 75% of the 4 GB on the nano. Something like the iPod touch (be it 8 GB or 16 GB) would be more than enough for me. Plus, I could possibly browse the web. And since there is no phone to deal with, there would be more justification for native third party apps since I can't bring down AT&T's network.

icemanjc · #7 September 7th, 2007, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

why oh why oh why did they not just stick an 80gb single-platter hdd in the touch and be done with it? it'd still be thinner than the iPhone probably...

solve all problems all at once.

Thats what I was screaming when I saw how much space it had, but I guess it would kill battery life. But why can't they think of people like me, I don't care if it drops that battery power down 5 hours thats what those big add on batteries are for.

What I found out is that you can fit a lot of videos on an ipod because there not a big screen, so I can reduce a 700 mb file to like 200-300 mb.

Qion · #8 September 7th, 2007, 09:34 PM

If the 8GB iPod touch had an 80GB spinning disc instead, or even if I knew I could mod it to have one, I'd buy one in the next five minutes and another tomorrow just for good measure! :/