Thursday, September 06, 2007

To Touch or not to Touch?

So the new iPods were announced last night, with all but the iPod Touch available now. The main two I was looking at were the iPod Touch and iPod Classic - until I saw the price. AU$549 for 16GB as compared to AU$479 for 160GB! Its too bad really, I do like the look and design of the iPod Touch, but the extra cost and less capacity just isn't worth it. It works like a PDA as well, so in some ways its bad luck it didn't come out last year - I would have bought it instead of my Palm PDA. Oh well, I'll be just fine with the 80GB iPod Classic for AU$349 I think - I only really want to have trailers on it when it comes to video, not full movies (thats what my notebook is for) and as I only have an 80GB hard drive in my notebook, I don't really see me needing 160GB! The 30GB would have been just fine as at the moment I only have 10GB of music (and it doesn't grow at a particularly rapid rate), but now I'm thinking I might use it as an additional way of backing up my notebook, and also keeping a copy of our photo collection on there - currently that's only backed up on CD, and it seems so much more convienent to just have to pull my iPod out of my bedside table if there is ever a fire or something (touch wood!). So now its just a matter of finding where I can get it cheapest - I really don't feel like waiting for double staff at Target or Kmart or Officeworks (I'd like to be able to get some use out of it this semester, otherwise it won't be used much until next year), so hopefully Toys R Us gets them in :P

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