ipod touch will do. it just rox.

You are forgetting an important factor that comes into play when you decide to use your iPod for watching video:Battery endurance.

Let's review.

New iPod Nano 8Gb - 5hrs
New iPod Classic 160Gb - 7hrs
iPod Touch 16Gb - 5hrs
iPhone 8Gb - 7hrs

Im not pulling these figures out of my a$$, these are Apple's figures from their tech specs. So even if you have almost limitless 160Gb worth of storage space, you are theoretically still constrained to how long you can watch your video without the need to recharging it back again. So your iPod Classic advantages are nullified by these figures themselves.

The advantage of having all your music with you, hence "Hold Everything" tag on the iPod Classic still carry meaning, since you can technically hold everything and choose from all your selection, but on video, you are tethered on its battery endurance limitation.

If you say you are lazy, then that is not a good excuse. You are industrious enough to convert and arrange your movies to be transferred into your iPod Classic, and you may even had to withstand several video conversions to put those movies in. What's stopping you from segregating your videos into what you wanna watch on the road today, and the next day?

oh gosh... i will definitely go for ipod touch...

i have layed my hands on the ipod touch today... oh gosh.. i drooled over it...

it's so damn sleek... the design is just so superb... safari web browser on it is so cool!!!! the multi-touch screen is really a revolution for touch screen interface!!!

but too bad.. it doesn't support the nike+...
hahaha so i might choose the 8gb nano instead...

just owned a classic... the main purpose why i choosed classic is because if the capacity is big enough for me to store lots of video... i don't think i can store that much of music... now i can watch my video whenever i go...

7 hours of video, unless you lug the charger around.

dude drop it man.. it's ppls preferences.. y are u forcing it down ppls throat? man.. i own an 80gig 5.5gen myself.. and i love the big storage! cuz i don't have to update my playlist often.. and not everyone has the luxury of time to always stick to the comp like some ppl do.. for ppl who travel how? they can't have access to their comps right? they'll be travelling with their work laptops instead of their own.. and ppl who are always on the go..

do u have an ipod that's above 30gig? if u do u'd understand that fact..

anyway.. to keep to the topic, i alrealy have a 80gig 5.5gen.. so naturally the next course of actions would be for the touch!! haha!! it's just too sleek and cool!

This post has been edited by carlsuen: Oct 8 2007, 10:23 AM

When was it that im forcing anything down anyone's throat? I myself had a 30Gb and an 80Gb at one time in my iPod owning life, but sold it off because im not inclined to have or listen to all my music whenever mood or fancy strikes. Do you feel intimidated by the realities that i posted, or did my post struck a nerve that compels you to put the shields up and call the defense brigade?

If you dont have the luxury to stick to your comp all the time, and mind you when it comes to travel, I KNOW IT BY HEART , DUDE....it is my profession, you get more than several days' worth of music on your iPod Touch, even on that supposedly paltry 16GB! One thing i myself notice is that when you are lugging around a massive capacity iPods around, some of your songs get neglected, because you have the "luxury" of having it with you, but you dont utilise it by playing it while you are around. You have this thing at the back of your mind that "oh i have it with me, i can listen to it anytime i want" but dare i ask have you been listening to ALL your songs you have in your iPod when you have them in your precious 80/160Gb iPods? Plug that thing into iTunes and see the playcounts, buddy.....you'll see what i mean.

By my average count, i'll get 450 songs worth a days worth in my iPod. If i could be dilligent and rotate the songs fairly among each other and listen to them at least once, and if you do listent to them 24 hours a day, you get 450 songs with 1 playcount each. What about your other thousands of songs which stays in there with no play at all? You say play the next day? Then i can still have 10 days worth of songs MINIMUM before i ran out of song choices on the iPod Touch, and start thinking of other songs i left behind on my computer hard drive back home. You travel much, leaving your home more than 10 days? If that is so, then by most account, a 10 days worth of days leaving the house would either be a vacation or you moving to a new location for either semi-or-permanent period of time. If it is the former, it's a vacation, you should not be listening to your iPods while enjoying your vacation. You can listen to your songs of course, but you paid thousands to be somewhere else, and you still want to concentrate your days on listening to Jolin Tsai crooning on the headphones? If it is the latter....guess what!? You are moving, and by this fact alone, your comp would be moving with you anyway! Agree?

Believe me, i made tons of lousy excuses which wouldnt hold water now , if i tell them to my friends who sports Nanos and Shuffles. I used to laugh at them and brag about the superiority of my iPod and its capacity. Then i realized that some of my songs are left rotting inside the superior-and-roomier iPods and not getting its deserved playcount. That's when i realise that smart management of your tunes inside your iPods is what made listening to the iPods worthwhile.

So chill, see it from my perspectives. The points i brought up are the realities in real-world performace of these iPods and sadly, the battery endurance cant keep up with the capacity that kept on ballooning. And like i said, that advantage of tens of thousands of songs is moot, nullified by the fact that you can only play 7 hours of videos and 24 hours of songs (if you are lucky) without a recharge. That's 450 songs worth in 24 hours, before your iPod shuts down. How do you intend to play the rest of the tens of thousands of songs on a dead iPod?

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 8 2007, 12:37 PM

i dun wan to bash or nething, Touch is great, as well as Classic. some people are just lazy to organize their playlist, which sometime just plug it in to charge n go to bed or something, some, will organize their playlist daily, but Apple release both Classic n Touch for a reason. so get which fit u the best.

n im not saying Nano n Shuffle is bad. They are great for wat they can offer as well.

Touch. Have it now. It's how much you can ulitise the contents inside I believe

ipod touch..it has a bigger screen..
ipod classic.. it has a bigger capacity..

so.. basically if i am rich i will get both..
or maybe jz get the ipod classic then wait for iphone.. hehe..

If everybody's rich, this question posted on this thread title wont even come up, everybody would be happy. It is when people gotta choose is when they get a little defensive on their purchases.

emm.. as far as i know, this thread is bout "which will u choose" not "which should i choose.
n if ppl ask which one he/she should go, i would tell them wat both can do, n let him/her decide though.

Which includes how long you can use the respective iPods without the need to tether it to a power cord, right?

so u're saying that it was stupid of apple to even create 80&160gig ipods? and u're saying that ppl who bought it are wrong to have bought it? what are u actually trying to prove here? what is your valid 'reason' then to buy an 80 or 160gig then?

man.. wonders of a man's ego..

Again, do not put words in my mouth, or in this case, typed responses at the assumption on my part.

Nobody called anything stupid on the creation of these iPod options, it simply caters to different types of groups. My posts merely suggest alternatives to lugging around your musics without trying organization or managements of your songs. Hell, if you have tried that and still cannot live without those tunes you left behind, or if you are plain lazy, then by all means, spend that RM1400++ on that iPod Classic.

The usual notion that people buy into when it comes to DAP like these are its capacity. Im merely providing a different facet to this notion by stating that large capacity means jack $hit if it cant even play them with its standalone battery capacity. Capishe?

Funny how people like tend to take my post as a "be all, end all" reference kinda response to what people should or should not do or buy when it comes to their iPods. You do think so right, otherwise you wouldnt have be so riled up in such a state that you are right now? My posts were meant as another take to the ever-evolving issue of "Which iPod is for me?" which is what the topic we are talking about here. You sir, came here with all your assumptions and conclusions without scrutinising what im trying to convey here.

P/S: If ego is the question at hand here, then i would definitely be backing the iPod Classic and hailing its massive cavernous innards as Second Coming, woudnt it? After all, i was that finicky a$$hole who vaunted such claims when i had my once humongous 80Gb iPod Video a while back.

Reading comprehension helps in cases like this.

Who's stubborn now? You seemed to have made your mind when it comes to which iPod suits you. Good for you then. But dont feel infinestimally defensive when others here chose the option you are not enamored with.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 8 2007, 04:35 PM

well, the TS only mention which one would i choose, i stated i choose Classic n why i choose them. but i wont go the too much detail as that detail r meant for why i choose though thus i didnt include it.
n as i mention before, im lazy to organize my iPod, thus mostly i plug n charge it n went to bed or finish my unfinished business. thus when i woke up i got my iPod charge with all my song in it before im goin out with it.

n again, both Touch n Classic has their own uniqueness, just that i choose according to my preference, but doesnt mean i dun like iPod Touch, i could only buy either one of them. n beside, everyone post here according to their preference on why they choose their iPod, but u go counter everyone who choose iPod Classic, sounding like iPod Classic is a big no-no when iPod Classic doesnt suit u.

It is not a counter, it is another look at its supposed large capacity advantage and how battery endurance affects this advantage.

You said it before, yes? You'd prefer it to have its pros and cons laid out infront of you then let the others decide, no? Well, that little tidbit about battery endurance vs storage capacity i laid out here is part of that plan of laying down the pros and cons. So , with everything laid out, decide then. If after all these pros and cons had been laid out and you still prefer the Classic, then by all means , get it. Your hard earned cash, not mine. All im doing here is bringing up that battery endurance thing into light, so that others can weigh their options better.

In the end, nobody's right or wrong, because all options are right. And they are right for different sets of people, and other options are wrong for these folks too, since they have their own preferences. It is when posters like carlsuen here starts putting words in my mouth, or insinuating things that i didnt mean , is when i put my foot down.

Are we on the same page here?

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Added on October 8, 2007, 3:43 pmYou know, instead of damning this thread into endless bickering of sorts, why not another poster come up here and provides the advantages of the opposing choice and see if it fits the bill of the threadstarter. I have presented my angle on this based on my every day usage, why not another user come here with their angle on their chosen iPod? Rather than each and everyone of use tearing each other's posts apart.....

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 8 2007, 03:43 PM

stringfellow, not trying to gang on u, but due to how u reply everyone who choose iPod Classic, i can guess why carlsuen considering u sound like u hate Classic so much, as i myself feel that way after i read how u reply those people who choose Classic.

hope this clear thing out. no one here r tryin to bash u.

No ill will towards you too Fyonne, but if i came off like that, then i hope i made myself clear of what i mean when i posted those statements.

just go back and re-read your posts man.. u were countering everyone who chosed the ipod classic.. and i never said that ur points were wrong but just that from the way u were responding, it was quite annoying cuz u stated ur point and not many shared ur toughts and u started countering every posts that has ever favoured th 80gig&160gig..

it's not so much of WHAT u say but HOW u said it.. notice no one else is posting here already? who would wanna get involved with a thread that has some guy creating a counter to what everyone has to say..

damn.. i have nothing against u man.. was just stating that ppl stated their thoughts here for TS.. not u.. and u have to step all over that..

obviously it's hard to see your own eye brows.. maybe u can try getting someone neutral to read this thread and see what they think?

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Added on October 8, 2007, 4:00 pmit's good that u could see what we were trying to say to u..

i'm sorry that i was hard on u.. but u were rather hard on ppl too..

so peace to all

This post has been edited by carlsuen: Oct 8 2007, 04:00 PM