I wants a iPod

It's strange actually. I used to want one back in year 12, and Mum and Dad were going to pay half for my 18th birthday, but then we got the car and so it didn't happen. I then went out and bought a Palm PDA with the ability to play music from SD cards, which I thought would be perfect - except for the fact that it only takes up to 1 gig cards. This was perfectly fine for a while (I just had one with my HP soundtracks on it, and another with the rest), but lately thats started to get on my nerves, plus I got a heap of new music from a friend, which has led to me tidying my iTunes list again, and, for some reason, I've strayed away from the soundtracks - I bought a few CDs (including Evermore and Snow Patrol) from JBs, and thanks to my wonderful Broadband, I've fallen in love with the iTunes Music Store, from which I've preordered Ben Lee's new album. In short, while I love my PDA, it just doesn't cut it for media.

So I've gone back to wanting an iPod - I still think they're the best value in the larger size players, plus the files from the Music Store won't play on anything else. I started looking early last week, thinking that everyone would have them in their catalogues for Father's Day (not that they're ever on sale, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage). Yet no one had them, which is rather odd. After a bit of searching on the Internet, it turns out that Apple are announcing new ones on Wednesday (Thursday in Australia). This is pretty good timing for me, I must admit, but now I'm itching to know how these ones are going to differ - I'm quite happy to pay $349 for the current 30gig one, I don't want to have pay more for a 32gig flash memory touch screen one, as is currently rumoured. Speaking of rumours, I've been watching a few of the Mac websites incase there's a leak and it's rather funny - people talking about the rumours is like what us HP fans were like before Deathly Hallows, except its all 'Steve said this' or 'Steve said that'.

Anyway, now it's just a matter of waiting until Thursday, which I both do and don't want to come - I have to do my HCI for Multimedia presentation as well. At least I know what's coming with that.