oopsz said:laidbacklarkin said:oopsz said:laidbacklarkin said:Get a Sandisk Fuze..the difference in quality of sound b/w this iPod and the Fuze is night and day. Seriously, iPod is highly overrated. I have quite a few friends that have become Sandisk converts and love it. This is not to diss or endorse any one product - just letting you know that there are more practical alternatives before succumbing to cool and marketing.

I think you may have misread this. The largest fuze is 8gb. This is a 60gb ipod. 8gb would hold most of my music. 60 gigs holds all of my music and a good number of movies and tv shows.

I'm not saying the fuze isn't a good product. I'm sure it's fantastic. But these are different product categories.Yes, that's true indeed that these are different product categories. Yet, my assumption is that the one feature that's mostly desired and is/should be on top of the list is the audio quality. In that aspect alone, there is no comparision b/w the 2 as the Sandisk is vastly superior. In fact, Sandisk does not make media players that use mechanical and magnetic storage discs. Which is why you won't find high capacities like this iPod. But what is the use of 60GB of storage on a product that delivers sub-par sound ? Is it that since you are getting a whopping 60GB of storage space and a cool brand like the Ipod, that you are willing to put up with lower audio quality ? Especially on a media player ? Anyways, I don't intend to turn this into an argument - all I am saying, quantity should not trump quality. EVER. This would be like comparing a good restaurant to an all-you-can-eat buffet

I do a lot of international flying. When you're looking at twenty hours of flight time to south asia, with a connection after that, every few weeks, you want a lot of variety at your fingertips. And considering even with noise reducing headphones there's always the dull whine of the engines in the background, i don't think the difference in quality will make that much of a difference. So yeah, quantity CAN trump quality. It's about convenience in the real world, not theoretical bests.Each to his own.

toolman61 said:Doesn't the Sandisk's allow the use of memory cards to up that 8gb internal memory?

Yes I got a fuze and was using it with 16gb. It is nice, small, and works well. The only kind of annoying thing is you get 10-20 second load time for each time you turn it on (to load the the micro SD card data).