talk to me about iPods

[rm]

I had a generation 3 silver chiclet before the theft.

I loved it. It was light, but I could still feel if I had it or not, and it didn't have a touch screen (I hate fucking touch screens).

The chiclet no longer exists, having been replaced by some little tiny touchscreen thing that I find confusing. The shuffle is a no go. I hate the iTouch (and dude, if I'm going to go there, I'd get an iPhone which doesn't work on my carrier). So do I need to go with the Classic? Is there any benefit to ordering an old chiclet and a slightly reduced cost.

I feel like I get so much more bang for the buck with the new models, eventhough they are all bigger and heavier than I want or have the scary touch screen factor.

Weigh in?

Comments

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I have an iPod Touch. It's my third iPod (I had a mini and then a pre-touchscreen Nano) and I love it, but if you don't like touch screens you would probably hate it. (Though I will say that I love reliable touch screens, which the iPod is--it's phone touch screens that I despise, although my horror is based on early experience with phone touch screens that were buggy and awful, and they are probably much better now.)

You do get a lot more bang for your buck with a new model. There is also the thing that the old ones tend to fall off support wise, so if something happens to it you still need to buy a new one. I think you'd be surprised by how negligible the weight tends to be; I'm very used to my Touch.

[fleur.livejournal.com]

Also, the batteries do have a finite lifespan, and if you're not sure where you are in that time line, you could end up with something that needs to be charged multiple times a day.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was why I ended up getting my 4th-gen Nano. My mini bricked itself--they were discontinued by then, but I was offered a replacement mini, but they explicitly said that they couldn't guarantee the battery was any good, so I went ahead and upgraded.