[seastay]

Talk about loosing data, I had an Ipod until I dropped it, didn’t realize the hard drive was not solid state and just dropping it on the carpet would ruin it These things are over rated, there are other devises that work just as well or better and would be more reliable and, don’t need a software package that has other motivations such as trying ot take over your PC . For just a bit larger a and a whole lot cheaper, by a factor of 10 just get a portable cd player capable of playing mp3s cdrs….And regarding video iPOd, great, now we have to look forward to the same as what MTV did to good music…all over again, music is meant to be heard, anything else is not music!

[satchmodog9]

They are really that fragile? My wife wants one, but she is really clumsy. She dropped our cordless phone in the sink yesterday.

[SamAdams76]

Get a portable CD player? You've got to be kidding. That's the whole appeal of an iPod - to get away from using those awkward, skip-prone CDs. And even with a CD of MP3s, you still will not be able to setup playlists, which again, is a major feature of organizing all your music digitally. And this would only work if you music collection consisted of about 200 tracks or less. Otherwise, you'll be swapping CDs constantly on an oversized player and having to tote around a bunch of CDs. An awful solution. That is so 1995, as my teenage sons would say.

Drop any hard drive on a carpet and you risk ruining it. However, I've dropped my iPod a few times, including into a puddle of water on a cement street, and it has survived. I do keep it in a leather case at all times.

As for the "video" iPod, who cares? It's all about the audio. Even Apple is only marketing the video functionality on the new iPods as an "extra." As an audio player, the new iPods simply have no peer.