If the nanos hadn't become so itsy, I'd say one of those - the old style mini-classic nanos sound like about what you are looking for.
I like my touch, and the quasi smartphone whistles are useful and fun. (e-reader! games and time wasters! memos to remember stuff for later!) Flash memory is more resilient to getting dropped and bonked around than disks, and I put out a lot of abuse on my tech, so that is important to me.
However, the ipod classic isn't broke. There are a laundry list of reasons why this could make sense for you, the first being that your fingers already know the drills. When what entertains you is *listening to music now* rather than *learning new techie bits*, sticking with what you know isn't a bad thing to do. Deciding not to spend a couple of hundred dollars on something that may infuriate you for the first three weeks of ownership is a solid decision. No matter how easy the learning curve, there is still going to be one.
So, in short - I would balance amount of abuse you expect your toy to live through vs. amount of crap you are willing to put up with through the learning curve.
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:08 pm (UTC)If the nanos hadn't become so itsy, I'd say one of those - the old style mini-classic nanos sound like about what you are looking for.
I like my touch, and the quasi smartphone whistles are useful and fun. (e-reader! games and time wasters! memos to remember stuff for later!) Flash memory is more resilient to getting dropped and bonked around than disks, and I put out a lot of abuse on my tech, so that is important to me.
However, the ipod classic isn't broke. There are a laundry list of reasons why this could make sense for you, the first being that your fingers already know the drills. When what entertains you is *listening to music now* rather than *learning new techie bits*, sticking with what you know isn't a bad thing to do. Deciding not to spend a couple of hundred dollars on something that may infuriate you for the first three weeks of ownership is a solid decision. No matter how easy the learning curve, there is still going to be one.
So, in short - I would balance amount of abuse you expect your toy to live through vs. amount of crap you are willing to put up with through the learning curve.