i pods

[lfdown2]

apple website, for usa and ire, has the usa one £10 cheaper for 8gb ipod so is it worth it?

[Puckoon]

Apple website wouldnt be the place to be buying it.

[Against the Breeze]

Where would be the best place to buy them then?

[David McKeown]

I got an iPhone there last week which is pretty similar to the iPod touch and I think there fantastic.  US iPhones wont work on a contract over here without being hacked which whilst easy to do means youll have to wait for a different hack for each update to the software

[Puckoon]

Where would be the best place to buy them then?

Thats a good question, I just have always found the apple store to be on the highside of the pricing. I buy all my stuff at the university bookstore, get an added 15% apple products. There are others on the board who would do alot of online shopping, so maybe they could tell you.

[blast05]

II have a 4GB memory card in my phone (SonyEricsson K800i) and can store all the pics and music i need. Usability is top notch  ...... so forgive my ignorance but i don't get why people feel the need to have an I-pod as well as a phone 

[David McKeown]

My music collection runs to be about 200Gig my film and tv collection to about 2tb so i use my ipod more for long flights, that being said havent switched the ipod on since i got the iphone.  PDA is pretty much redundant now too

[blast05]

My music collection runs to be about 200Gig

Mother of God - at a generous say 5MB per song then thats 40,000 songs. At a fairly low average of say 3 minutes per song then thats 2,000 hours of music - a full time job for 1 year working 9 to 5 to listen to them all once

[David McKeown]

According to itunes it would take me 93days to listen to them straight through.  I have about another 30Gig to get through with correct metadata before I add them to my collection

[Gnevin]

II have a 4GB memory card in my phone (SonyEricsson K800i) and can store all the pics and music i need. Usability is top notch  ...... so forgive my ignorance but i don't get why people feel the need to have an I-pod as well as a phone 

Like David not enough space , need to have my 40 gb of music with me . Plus i don't like how music in phones , cant connect to a base station . No itrip ...

[Main Street]

I have the 80gb version, I couldn´t consider living with smaller.
Space taken up also depends on the bit rate the songs are decoded in.
I mainly use it in the car, I can connect it via usb cable or Mini Jack to the car audio.

It is possible to replace the  hard disk inside, bump up from 8gb to 160gb

[blast05]

Like David not enough space , need to have my 40 gb of music with me .

For what - in case you get abducted by aliens and they take you to a far away planet that takes 10 years to get to 

I have the 80gb version, I couldn´t consider living with smaller.

If you got stuck in Mountjoy for 30 years you wouldn't become familiar with all the music that that could store regardless of bit rate.


I presume you guys don't have your lifetimes supply of music stored on a single portable device, i.e.: your I-Pod, and that you have backups (or at least if you don't have backups for such vast music collections then your asking for trouble - all it would take is 1 little scanger to swipe it from you when you're off guard). I just don't get why somebody needs such large storage on a portable device.
I have my 4GB memory card in my phone which could hold 700 to 800 songs which i don't even have anyway and wouldn't ever need.

Edit: And plus, how long did it take to get 80GB of music either copied from CD's or downloaded ? 80 GB's of music on CD's  ...... well taking 12 songs per album at an average of 5MB per song then you are looking at ~1,300 albums which at say even €10 a pop would be €13K, The pile of CD's would be as high as a 4 story house !!

[J70]

Why don't you just charge the iPod using a usb port or are there compatibility issues with that too?

[Puckoon]

Why don't you just charge the iPod using a usb port or are there compatibility issues with that too?

Shouldnt be any compatibility issues when charging the ipod with the usb cable. I think it was only a problem (and even then it could be circumvented by using the usb cable) when the ipods used to come with the power adaptor.

[Rma13]

Never, ever purchase from the Apple website!  I eventually ended up with an Ipod classic after I'd actually ordered an engraved Ipod nano.  It took weeks for all the problems with Apple to be resolved & at the end of the day I have an Ipod classic which still doesn't seem to work properly despite having been restored once & reset flip knows how many times, I just can't be bothered going through the hassle of trying to return it after everything I went through to receive it in the first place.