[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Kelvin

I wouldn't convert on format to another... you'd probably lose a lot of quality. I'd go straight from the source.

i don't think i'll be re-ripping my CD collection again.

I don't think it's meant to compete with the 80GB iPod that can hold your entire music collection in your pocket, but it WILL be more durable. I've gone through 3 iPods, that all died because of dead hard drives. A spinning magnetic disc in a portable device is a pretty horrible idea really. They just won't last in most situations. I'd rather have a 1 gig iPod nano than any hard drive based player ever again.

my iPod is almost 2 years old, sits in hot/cold car all day, gets thrown in duffel bag to get played at work, and then back into duffel bag to hot/cold car again. repeat. it seems to get hosed up every couple months or so and need reset, but that takes about a minute. no problems other than that.

Whatever man. You apple haters just love to make things out like that. The rest of the world is going to love it, and you'll keep hating it just because it has an apple logo and not a sony ericsson logo. Apple is one of the ONLY manufacturers that pushes the envelope of not WHAT something can do, but HOW it can do it.

i'd buy it for $50, but that's about it. $600? LOL

PS: My PDA crashed 3 times over the last 1.5 weeks. Go microsoft.

why do you need a PDA - i thought you worked in a dentist office.