latest and best buy i-pod?

niceirishfella

What is the very latest ipod out there. I want to buy one that'll hold shed loads of songs - but I'm not fussed about videos etc. i dont want to buy one and have a new one out in a few months superseeding my purchase.
Whats the latest and best buy?


Thanks.

Kid Nothing

The newest and most advanced is the iPod Touch but it only has a flash memory of 16G so if you want a load of songs then the 160GB Classic is probably your best bet for now.

dlambirl

The newest iPod out is the Touch. It only goes up to 16Gb though.

gb or I'd recommend the iPod classic that has 80gb or 160Gb.

I got a 80Gb classic at christmas for an impressive €248 seeing as the Ipod Nano 8Gb was €198 - Ten times the storage for €50 extra!!!

kippy

The ipod touch is definetly the best option. By far the most impressive device of its kind on the market.
16 GB is a shed load of MP3's to most people.
kippy

niceirishfella

dlambirl wrote: »

The newest iPod out is the Touch. It only goes up to 16Gb though.

how many songs would 16Gb hold? Thanks for all the help so far!

mathias

Ripping at top quality , about 220 CD's worth ....

niceirishfella

Great..............where the best place to buy one online to get the best possible price??

Kid Nothing

http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4PJY&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=ipod+touch&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

that's the best shop i've seen, but you'd probably save a bit more by getting one off eBay

red_fox

If you don't want video then you're much better off with the iPod Classic, it was released the same time as the touch, quite similar to the previous models but there won't be a new 'classic' for some time. It's in either 80gb or 160gb, the 80gb is just over €200 below:

http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4PK0&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=ipod&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

Passenger

mathias wrote: »

Ripping at top quality , about 220 CD's worth ....

Maybe even substantially less.

mathias

Well 16GB = 16,000, MB , ( sticking with correct decimal here ) and most albums encoded with Lame VBR 0 ( variable bit rate , 100% quality ) come in at 70 MB ( again correct decimal ) so 16, 000 / 70 = 228.27 .......thats where I got my figures from.
Lame VBR 0 being generally considered the best way to encode. ( files are much bigger than itunes default , so if you use that you'll fit substantially more onto the device )
I have over 3000 albums on my HTPC all encoded this way , I averaged the size of all the folders to get the 70 MB figure , so it should be a good estimate.


Applying windows binary counting system for capacity , drops both figures by about 7 % and the result comes out the same.

It will vary of course , some albums are bigger than others , but should be close enough.