New Toy

Well, after much research, I decided to buy a new Ipod. I mentioned this last month, but just now decided to go ahead and do it. At first, I didn't want to buy an Ipod, as I thought there were better bargains out there. While that's true, you still can't beat the availability of accessories for the Ipods. They dominate the market, period. They are a little bit more pricey when compared to similar models by other manufacturers, but perhaps that's a worthy price, I'm not sure. Right now, I've got about 1400 songs in my collection, consuming about 5 1/2 gigs of space. That includes most of my all time favorite songs, so I'm happy, and don't really see myself adding huge amounts of new music, until new songs come out, etc. So, I settled on the Ipod 8gb Nano, which is an amazingly small player, and very stylish. I opted for the Product Red line, which essentially Apple will donate money to the fight against Aids for each unit purchased. It's an awesome mp3 player, sounds great, and definitely fits my needs perfectly right now. I decided to forgo the 30gb video version for the same price, as I don't really have a need (or time) to watch video in that manner, plus the Nano is much cooler in my opinion, and will probably be more reliable in the end because it's a flash-based player, versus a hard-drive based player (on the 30gb model for example).