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About 6 months ago I got a FREE Ipod Shuffle, it is only 512 meg, but holds ~ 120 songs. I went and got one for each of my kids for $48 at Brands Mart 2 weeks ago.
I know they are not big, but they will like them. I use mine all the time working in the yard and mowing the lawn.
I bought a 20gig Ipod last year and I love it. It is the standard of excellence, and expensive. But like someone else said on here, you truly get what you pay for. My wife has a 1 gig rio Cali that she loves, but she also has only 40 songs on it,and is nowhere near the audiophile that I am! I have like, 3 DAYS of music on my IPOD and it's awesome. I use it on my home system, in my car,with headphones, and I also use it as a 20 gig external hard drive for my laptop(yes, you can do that!).
Ipod's are nice, but I have a creative zen 40GB and love it. I use it in my classroom for backgroud music and paid only 250.00 for it. I have 5700 songs on it as well as use it as a moble HD for file transfers.
The full-size iPods still have hard drives (even the new 5-gen video ones). The Nanos and Shuffles are flash-based. (The Nano replaced the hard-drive based Mini.)
One of the things that really sets iPods apart from the competion is iTunes, the program you use to organize the music and put it onto the player. It is very simple to use, and lets you organize things the way you want them very easily. Like Polarbear, I didn't really want an iPod, but when I started researching them, it seemed the best choice. (I wanted a 4-gig Nano, but I ended up with a leftover 20-gig photo for the same price.)
I've used the iPod Nano 2 GB and it is awesome. If I had 200 dollars to blow and actually listened to music on the run, I would buy one. The Shuffle is cool if you don't mind not having a screen to look at. I have played around with many MP3 players and found iPods to be the best. Cowon/Jet Audio players are really good too.
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