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The nano's smaller. Small = expensive in technology.

The "classic" one is actually a video iPod though, which I thought were usually somewhat expensive. I have the 30gb model and paid at least twice as much (edit - on second thought that may be an exaggeration... I paid a bit more anyway... keeping in mind this was like 5 years ago) as other people I know who got the 8gb nano.

*shrugs*

Edit - Oh, as for recommendations, they're both pretty solid. Nano's tiny as **** but still includes all the functionality of a normal iPod. The video one is... well, nifty, if you think you'll use the video feature. Otherwise you could probably just get an older generation model second hand or something. Also on the video ones the touch-pad is a bit more sensitive than other models for some reason, which can be annoying.

Besides that, there's always other non-iPod MP3 players, but uhh... I'll leave that to everyone else.
 
Well, I was adamantly anti-iPod for a few years and every other one I got either broke or was generally rubbish. Then I inherited my sister's old iPod and found myself rather liking it so I think I'll stick with it now.

Thanks for the advice.
 
I've got a nano, love it, never had another type of iPod though
 
I haven't kept up to date with the latest ranges so it might have all changed, but my understanding was that the smaller devices with less capacity are generally solid-state - they use flash based memory which has no moving parts and is generally more expensive.

The ones with more capacity are essentially like a little computer HDD and so are considered slightly less reliable since their moving parts will degrade. They also access their stored data slightly slower. On the flipside you often get something like ten times the storage of a flash based player for the same price.
 
It was my Zen Vision: M's HDD that caused it to die. I took it out of my warm car into the -4 degree night time which caused the disk to fracture. A little wary of it happening again to be honest.
 
I'm thinking about getting a new mp3 player soon. My ipod mini locked up me today and I couldn't even turn it off. Had to let the battery drain before I could use it, and that's just the latest in a slew of problems its been giving me. I'm thinking about getting an 8GB Zune on Newegg for ~$160. I would get the nano, but it's just too small for me, and the classic has about 74GB that I would never use.
 
I got an 80Gb classic. Not many new features on it, just a newer "trim and cut" on the whole style thing. Meh. It's an iPod. Who gives a shit :LOL:
 
Laivasse said:
I haven't kept up to date with the latest ranges so it might have all changed, but my understanding was that the smaller devices with less capacity are generally solid-state - they use flash based memory which has no moving parts and is generally more expensive.

The ones with more capacity are essentially like a little computer HDD and so are considered slightly less reliable since their moving parts will degrade. They also access their stored data slightly slower. On the flipside you often get something like ten times the storage of a flash based player for the same price.
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yes and then there's the touch ipods which have less capacity but more bling

the nanos are great I have a nano, a 20g photo (no video, battery is dead) and a shuffle ..I mostly use the nano as the battery lasts at twice as long plus it's much smaller and fits in my jeans ..the shuffle's battery is awesome I had it in storage (charged) for 8 months when I fired it up it had a charge that last over a month ..but it sucks because it's difficult to manage anything but music ..the controls are lacking but you could wear it clipped to your ear and not much else if you so desired ..the clip = not penis safe
 
Threadjack.

My ipod is pissing me off. Every so often when it starts up, it'll take for freaking ever to boot, then just present me with a white screen requesting that I refresh it.

A reboot usually gets it going on its merry way, but I want to know why it keeps doing this. Could it have anything to do with the fact that it's HFS formatted, and that I use third party software to sync it with my PC, and iTunes to sync it with my Mac?
 
sinkoman said:
Could it have anything to do with the fact that it's HFS formatted, and that I use third party software to sync it with my PC, and iTunes to sync it with my Mac?
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Yes, and it's also maybe just aging ungracefully.
 
KineticAesthetic said:
Yes, and it's also maybe just aging ungracefully.
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Well, she's only about a year old, and she's mostly used around the house, so I have my doubts about it being aging.

I need to figure out some way to be able to sync this thing between both my Mac and my PC, because i'd like to leave it FAT formatted, so that I can use it as a drive on random PCs I run across (hell, there was a time when I used it more as a jump drive and less as a music player), but I still need to be able to update it from my Mac, because I have more ready access to the Mac than my PC (well, the Mac isn't mine, it's my mom's, and i'm not allowed to use the PC anymore ever since the morphine incident...).

What'd be the most graceful way to go about doing this? I used to use Rockbox, but i'd like to try to use the default firmware this time around.
 
sinkoman said:
Well, she's only about a year old, and she's mostly used around the house, so I have my doubts about it being aging.

I need to figure out some way to be able to sync this thing between both my Mac and my PC, because i'd like to leave it FAT formatted, so that I can use it as a drive on random PCs I run across (hell, there was a time when I used it more as a jump drive and less as a music player), but I still need to be able to update it from my Mac, because I have more ready access to the Mac than my PC (well, the Mac isn't mine, it's my mom's, and i'm not allowed to use the PC anymore ever since the morphine incident...).

What'd be the most graceful way to go about doing this? I used to use Rockbox, but i'd like to try to use the default firmware this time around.
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Oh... I'm not sure about the formatting part of this... If you had it set so it doesn't auto sync to one library, that could work, right?

Maybe?
 
KineticAesthetic said:
Oh... I'm not sure about the formatting part of this... If you had it set so it doesn't auto sync to one library, that could work, right?

Maybe?
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I'd like to be able to add music from both machines though.
 
sinkoman said:
I'd like to be able to add music from both machines though.
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Uh... If you set it to only update checked songs, maybe you could... Or else, somehow sync the libraries...

I'm not even very good at this.

I have an iPod, that's it. D:
 
****. All I want to be able to do, is format my ipod as a FAT32 drive, and be able to....

Add music from my Mac...

And add music from my PC...

Why does apple have to make this shit so god damned difficult?
 
I've had a black iPod Nano (8 GB) for about a year now. It's good and all, but it got one major and annoying bug. Half of the times it takes like 20 attempts to turn it off. I have to press the button it for five seconds, let go and do the same thing again until it finally turns itself off.
 
All iPods do that, it's damn annoying. Except for me it's more like 5 times... helps if you go in and out of a few menus and try again, for some reason.
 
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