iPod Touch or iPod Classic ?

[Maverick69]

Looking to get one of these, but don't know much except they can play music and what have ya.
Recommendations ?

[Heather]

I have the IPOD classic, thanks to ALL OF YOU AWESOME people, and you can barely see me anymore without it. I love it for its amazing capacity (160G), and I don't need the "flashy" stuff of the Touch. I'm in heaven.

[lolabella]

I'm still in love with my Ipod Classic. Going on a little over 2 years now! Not ready to trade it in yet for a younger, faster model! 30g's is still enough for me!

[E in DC]

Originally Posted by lolabella

I'm still in love with my Ipod Classic. Going on a little over 2 years now! Not ready to trade it in yet for a younger, faster model! 30g's is still enough for me!

Me too! I've also got the 30G Classic and it's all I need.

[fireinmn]

Mike and I own the shuffle...the smallest, cheapest ($80) Ipod you can buy and we've been very happy with them. I personally only use mine for short periods of time (running/exercising) - my ears start to hurt if I have it on longer than 40 or 50 minutes. Not exactly sure how many songs it holds, but so far it's been enough for me.

[roni]

Originally Posted by fireinmn

Mike and I own the shuffle...the smallest, cheapest ($80) Ipod you can buy and we've been very happy with them. I personally only use mine for short periods of time (running/exercising) - my ears start to hurt if I have it on longer than 40 or 50 minutes. Not exactly sure how many songs it holds, but so far it's been enough for me.

One gig shuffles are $49 bucks now
Two gig are $69

[James A.]

If I were doing it all over today, I'd get the touch.

But, I like fancy stuff.

[fireinmn]

Originally Posted by roni

One gig shuffles are $49 bucks now
Two gig are $69

Of course they are...I likely got the $49 for the $80 price

[roni]

Originally Posted by James A.

If I were doing it all over today, I'd get the touch.

But, I like fancy stuff.

The big advantage is that the touch has wireless, the Safari web browser, google maps and more.

I have an iPhone. It is great. Kathy has an iPod hard drive type - the old mini.

It would be the iTouch for me - the one with 16 gig of storage if I wanted to maximize that.

I do fine with far less storage.

[mastequilapf]

My 2-generations old 20GB iPod is 4 years old and still going strong, although it is full.

The frugal side of me would go for the 80GB at $250 because I would use it mainly for storage and playback. I know I would probably use the iPod touch's additional features, but I'm not sure I want to pay twice as much for it.

[roni]

Originally Posted by mastequilapf

My 2-generations old 20GB iPod is 4 years old and still going strong, although it is full.

The frugal side of me would go for the 80GB at $250 because I would use it mainly for storage and playback. I know I would probably use the iPod touch's additional features, but I'm not sure I want to pay twice as much for it.

iPod Touch

8 gig - $299
16 gig - $399
32 gig - $499

I'd be buying the 8 gig if I did not already have the iPhone.

[local8]

I'd say the more important thing is where are you storing your music. I got my iPod (30GB) last June and have burned 21Gigs worth of Cd's on my laptop (it takes a while). Getting nervous about the files, i spoke with a friend who recommended an external hard drive to keep all the music on. This way if something happens to the laptop (and I have already had some go bad on me), I don't have to re-do all the work. Bought an 80 gig external hard drive on e-bay for $60.

[mastequilapf]

Originally Posted by roni

iPod Touch

8 gig - $299
16 gig - $399
32 gig - $499

I'd be buying the 8 gig if I did not already have the iPhone.

As ridiculous and lazy as this might sound, I have no desire to manually manage my music and upload what I need when I need it. I want it all there at once so I can dial up whatever suits my mood. I have a relatively shallow, but wide-ranging musical taste. A lot of it is a large (and growing) world music collection that gets taken to parties, working outside, on walks, travel...never really know what I'm going to play until I select the file(s). None of the current iPod touch models (except for the 32GB) meets that requirement.

I'm totally the guy that carried around a couple of binders full of CD's (100 or so per binder) before the iPod became a commodity.

[mastequilapf]

Originally Posted by local8

I'd say the more important thing is where are you storing your music. I got my iPod (30GB) last June and have burned 21Gigs worth of Cd's on my laptop (it takes a while). Getting nervous about the files, i spoke with a friend who recommended an external hard drive to keep all the music on. This way if something happens to the laptop (and I have already had some go bad on me), I don't have to re-do all the work. Bought an 80 gig external hard drive on e-bay for $60.

i've been using a firewire drive for my music collection for a while now. With all the software, photos, other docs on the main hard drive, I had to move them due to lack of space.

I need to burn them to DVD so that if that fire wire drive fails i'm not SOL.

[E in DC]

Originally Posted by mastequilapf

As ridiculous and lazy as this might sound, I have no desire to manually manage my music and upload what I need when I need it. I want it all there at once so I can dial up whatever suits my mood. I have a relatively shallow, but wide-ranging musical taste. A lot of it is a large (and growing) world music collection that gets taken to parties, working outside, on walks, travel...never really know what I'm going to play until I select the file(s). None of the current iPod touch models (except for the 32GB) meets that requirement.

I'm totally the guy that carried around a couple of binders full of CD's (100 or so per binder) before the iPod became a commodity.

I'm totally with you on this. We've put our entire music collection on the iPod and find ourselves listening to albums - or parts of albums - that we hadn't broken out in years. We take it in the car, and when at home play it through our amp and speakers on the big stereo. I'm enjoying music more now than I have since college thanks to that little gizmo.

Another advantage is the freed-up space in our living room. We moved in December and haven't even bothered to unpack and shelve our 500-plus CDs since it's all there on the iPod.