Hi,
This is a decision that's ultimately yours and your use cases and
personal needs will drive your decision.
Here's my .02.
And advantage of the nano is no internal hard drive, which means no
internal moving parts for the storage media. The hard drive based
iPods are slightly more prone to defect (See iPod reader report at
http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/ipodfailures.html Note, this
is somewhat dated, but the reliability of hd vs ram can be inferred.
Second, the speech on the new nano goes beyond the default menus, but
goes down to the song title and then some. So, it may be easy to
memorize the default menus and perhaps your playlists, but I
certainly can't memorize my entire song list for all my play lists,
so the spoken menus make the iPod more practical to use overall.
.
Finally, my use cases don't require me to have my entire library on
my iPod all the time. I have a lot of old audio books on my computer
but don't put them on my iPod. Just because you have 100Gb of music,
doesn't mean you can't pick the top 16Gb to keep on your nano.
Granted, your use case may be different.
So for me, despite the *huge* classic, I wanted the reliability of a
RAM based iPod and the spoken interface.
Again, the choice is yours, and you really can't go wrong.
Best,
Scott
The data is old, but it's clear that RAM based models fail much less
than hard drive versions. That's a plus for the nano vs the classic.
At first glance the iPod Nano *looks* like a good fit for me, but
I've beenm thinking.
I've got a music library including audio books and movies that's
over 40 gigs--and iPod Nanos don't have that much space. So I'm
curious about the Classics. Will I be able to navigate thatwithout
speech?
It *looks* like it, that if I just memorize the menus structure and
count clicks I should be OK. I want to be able to watch movies and
read books and play songs and possibly TV shows if I get any this
year. I'm asking now because we are putting together Christmas
lists, and I want to get the right iPod for me on it ... :)
I realize I am going against the trend here to get a Nano--shucks, I
was all for it at first--but it's not large enough for me, and for
me the lack of speech is trivial, as long as I can sync my entire
library onto it. Thoughts?
Jane
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--Scott
