If you can afford the luxury, go with the most GB. It is amazing how fast you can fill that space. I've got a 60GB iPod video, but have yet to do any video with it. If you can't afford that luxury, you could always change the iTunes prefs so that your entire music collection is stored in an external drive so as not to take up primary hard drive, and just select certain songs or playlists to import to the iPod. My problem with putting all the music on the iPod is that, even with creating smaller playlists for French teaching songs, upbeat, slow, etc, I still have around 1400 in my favorites playlist. Some of my bands get very little "air time" (unless I'm sitting there for a really long time listening!), even with shuffle option selected.
I think I like this version better than the G3 version, because it has the one-holed headphone hole (for lack of a better word), and the other had the two-prong hole. What burned me was that my Griffin iTrip from the gen 3 version wouldn't work on the new iPod video because it had the two-prong jack and wouldn't work on the latest models, so I had to buy another. The G3 version was fine, doing only photos & no video, which was all I really wanted it for, but some trifling student stole it...The battery life on the latest models is far better than it is on older models... Ciao for now! Cathy GREEN ;-) Atherton HS French 3000 Dundee Rd Louisville, KY 40205 502.485.8202ext204 fax 502.485.8985 cgreen1 at jefferson.k12.ky.us > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of b3 > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:26 AM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: iPod advise... questions [bcc][faked-from] > > as for which iPod to get, I would say to consider how much music you > have, and to consider your future needs. > when I bought my 3rd generation 30gig iPod, I figured that it would > take forever to fill it up, but after combining my music collection > and my girlfriends, our iTunes library swelled, and now we need more > room. > > having sad that, I have no experience with the video/photo iPods, but > we did purchase an iPod Nano for my baby sister for x-mas, and I must > say that the little machine impressed me. (I haven't used it much, as > she lives in Bowling Green, so I don't know about the scratching factor) > > and, if you were to want to copy songs from an iPod to a computer, > I've heard that you can search a site called versiontracker.com and > get a program called ipodrip, but that is just what I hear ;) > > r > > On Feb 16, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Stuart Ungar wrote: > > > OK, since we are in the advise on buying a new Apple > > product mode I will jump on the bandwagon. > > > > First of all about the new Mac question. I bought a > > mac mini and am now kicking myself that I didn't get > > the all-in-one iMac. Don't get me wrong, I like my > > mini, but in my opinion the iMac is the more minimal > > and better product. And, now seems to be the time > > since the "newest and coolest" one is out. > > > > My iPod question is this... I have a shuffle and liked > > it for a while, but now realize the real importance of > > the screen. So, I am in the market for a new iPod. > > Can those of you who have the Nano and Video report on > > how you like 'em? Apple makes the choice hard since > > each model with more memory is "just" 50 bucks more! > > And, with the iPod, can I go to a friend's house and > > load up with songs then add them to my iTunes playlist > > on my computer (not that I would do that). Or, has > > Apple made such sharing impossible? > > > > -stuart > > > > > > > > Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) > > Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their > > families. > > 502-426-5376 > > LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060216/56f25c63/attachment.html
