That's the thing. 160GB is fine.. but if your collection on iTunes is bigger than that, then you have to tick the albums you want to sync, and it's a pain in the arse. Like you say, most are happy with a really small capacity. I know someone and she just does songs and I'm like ALBUMS FFS. But if she likes 1 song by the Kooks (Naive) she'll have it on there, I'm like yeah it's an okay song but they're a terrible band, and she was like I don't care long as I like the song. It really pisses me off.

That's why I like most people on here, a lot of people on here have a bigger collection than me but amongst the people I know, I'm like a music connoisseur.

Yeah, same. I come on MB to be humbled. Otherwise I would feel like I am THE walking music dictionary 24/7. Coming here all the time reminds me I still have a long way to go.

This. All day long.
I still have a 20 dollar pre-paid that doesn't even have the capability to play music. It can be used to call someone and text them, and I barely even do that.

Not the iPod, but the iPod touch and its apps.

Yup same. I was considered some walking music dictionary when I only knew the beatles and Pink Floyd.
I was shocked with the amount of music I was oblivious of, the day I joined MB.

**** you, ipod touches rule!!! its my baby.

Yeah, I'm using the iPod touch right now.

Ipods save me from 8 hours of boredom every day.
They won't be on this list anytime soon.

I have an 8 gig nano and I actually enjoy selecting what music I'm going to put on it from day to day. Having my entire music collection of there seems like it would be kind of unwieldy to me, especially when I have it plugged in in the car.

I can see that. I usually pick something new every few days for car listening. But I still love the options. In fact, I get pissed off when I'm looking for something on a 30 GB iPod and remember that it was something I jettisoned so I could put something new on. I've got 2 30GB iPods in play now (both pretty old) and when I got an iPhone I went with the 32 GB so I could fill it up with music and have most of what I want among the 3.

On Bourbon: what do you like? I really want some good bourbon. I like most whiskeys but I always go back to Jameson (and I do mean always)

On beer: its fascinating to look at the wildly varying alcohol laws in different states in the US. For instance, in Colorado grocery stores and gas stations could sell beer (ONLY beer) but only with 3.2 alcohol content max. All other alcohol was only available at liquor stores which had to be closed on Sundays. So on Sundays, drunks would fill their bloated guts with full calorie / low alcohol beers.

While we're on the subject of pointless technology.

Now you can carry over 200 books in the palm of your hand.
Well that's great but why would you want to have 200 books in your hand. Unless you are an academic what possible scenario would lead you to need and entire library in your hand at short notice? And even if you were an academic surely you would have access to a real library with a far bigger selection than 200 books.

I can understand this being used by an extremely niche market but other than that what's the point.
Music I can understand having a huge amount on a portable device, after all songs tend to be measured in minutes, a book can last a few days. I just don't ever see the situation where I'm away from home for a couple of hours and I suddenly get the urge out of nowhere to suddenly read a novel.
It just doesn't happen.

I've seen them advertised to people who go on holiday.
Now even if you are an avid reader surely you wouldn't need more than 3 or 4 books for a two week holiday. and if you run out there are plenty of places to buy more of them.
And would you really want to spend a few hundred quid on buying one of these & filling it with books and then taking it onto the beach?
You spill a drink on a book it dries out, try spilling a drink on one of these.
You accidently drop a huge ornamental donkey you've bought from your holiday in spain on a book after a drunken night out , nothing happens. Drop it on one of these.....

You see where i'm going with this.
An utterly utterly pointless device.

Yes, completely agree. They look ridiculous too, can't wait till I see the people at Starbucks with their iPads. Just get a damn book, they don't make them for nothing.

Ha ha! All very true, Urban, especially the part about the ornamental donkey!

I also would just rather look at print on a page in a book than on an electronic screen. I like actual books partly because they *are* low-tech.

I doubt a computer could simulate the dusty smell of an old book...kind of repellent but interesting...or one that has sat on the floor by the toilet too long, after condensation turns it a little yellow. (This happened to all my brother's Star Trek paperback books when I was a kid, so you read them at your own risk.) And if I were reading on vacation, I'd miss the wind fluttering the pages.

I can't wait to get my own ipad. My friend got one shipped over from America and I've played on it, it's fantastic!

Nothing compares to an actual book anyway. I tried reading trainspotting online because I was skint, but I just couldnt do it. So I made myself even more skint and forked out £7 for the actual book which i got into straight away.

My brother has one, I must admit they are pretty cool, but they don't have flash. The iPod on it is amazing though.

£7? I see Trainspotting in pretty much every charity shop i ever go into for £2 or less. Or you could have gone to the library. Silly Kayleigh.

I want to keep i'll get my moneys worth, plus I don't have any charity shops nearby, I'm 20miles away from the shopping centre! :O

I've agreed with you so far, but I've gotta disagree on this one. Though the tablets themselves may not be the greatest things ever, they are the start of something revolutionary. I think, in the relatively near future, as a natural progression of technology, all printed media will become digital. Just look at newpapers; they're all dying. People get their news from the internet now.

So while I agree that people shelling out $400 or whatever for the current iPads and whatnot are wasting their money, I do think that the tablets have a great future ahead of them.

I still buy 3 newspapers everyday :)

Books are a cheaper option, more available, don't get bugs, more robust, easier to store and don't need a battery to be recharged.

I think the biggest fallacy is that technology will replace everything.

I'm the exact same way (down to the 8GB Nano). Some albums stay on there for weeks or months, especially albums I'm trying to get familiar with. Other stuff gets rotated out on a daily basis. It's not that difficult and at least each day I have a general idea of what I'm going to play. Sure sometimes I wish I had a certain album on there, but I just put it on a list and make sure to add it for the next day or so.

I agree that many people get their news from the net these days, but I REALLY don't like the idea of all printed media going away. We need a fucking break from staring at electronic screens all damn day. It feels good to pick up a book or newspaper, giving your eyes a rest. I know the display on e-books is different and developed to be easy on the eyes, but still. I'm more referring to your comment than the e-books.

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That's actually not a bad idea at all...I'm thinking of getting an iphone soon so maybe I'll start doing that. Road trips or plane flights, though, I'm still gonna want everything...so my 160GB will get the attention it deserves on those trips.

I'm not a fan of those e-book readers either (in their current state). Call me a luddite but I prefer the physical nature of a book to a screen, printed notes to a pdf/ppt, almost any form of communication to a cellphone, CDs to iTunes albums, hand washing dishes to using a dishwasher... list goes on.

Maybe not the dishwashing bit, but I agree with everything else.

Oh, it's going to happen. I've only been alive for 18 years but if you dissect those 18 years in terms of technological evolution, it's nuts how much progress we've made.

We went from trekking to the library every time you needed research to flipping open your laptop and going to to google. We went from housephones to an age where a lot of people don't even have a landline anymore because all they use is their cell phone.

I would bet that before I die (assuming that's some time around 70), all of my digitial **** will be hooked into my head projecting an image that only I see like those sci-fi movies always show. Wouldn't be surprised if that happened within the next 30 years.

I can't really see the need for an ipad/e books/whatever else - the want, yeah, but the need? It might just be my skinflint ways, but there's no way I could justify shelling out on them. As with quite a few others, I prefer a 'hands on' approach - real books, CDs, I still write letters - actual letters, with a pen and paper and everything (ok, they're to my Nan, but still....).

Stuff like the ipad just makes me feel sad.

I genuinely like the taste of beer personally and although you obviously DO get drunk off it, it's a nice side effect for me. If I want to get drunk ASAP then I am very happy to get some decent Whisky down me but I have an addictive personality and the bottle would only last a short while and therefore cost me a small fortune.

Although I occasionally put foot in mouth when drunk I don't turn into a typical lager lout on it and don't vomit or start fights etc

I definitely see your point but in a social situation pints are better for me otherwise I would be doing a double shot every ten minutes and be skint a couple of hours in!

Agree with everything so far except for the beer part. I love beer of all kinds, and not just because I'm Canadian. In fact, I'm drinking one right now. And we have whole stores here dedicated to the sale of beer because it can't be sold in supermarkets.

As for the E-book readers, nope I don't get it either. They are so hard to read and like others have said, real books are better and cheaper. I also like real books because you can flip back a few pages to re-read something you didn't understand, or sometimes up to a couple of chapters at a time! I don't think the e-books have that capability, so you'd have to click back each individual page. What a pain. Not to mention they clean out your wallet.

Definitely, definitely agreed about the beer although if I had it my way, I'd be pertaining to all alcohol and make it #1. I just see no point in it.

Very true!
Plus there's the times you notice that you missed some "evidence" a few pages back, so you try to compare both texts... plus you can read it from under your desk in a very boring course.

So we can all just sit on our asses, get fat as fuck, and not have to go anywhere. What movie am I thinking of...can't remember.

Haha... I see what you did thar.

I don't know if that was rhetorical or not, but WALLE...