Jack wrote:
Lemme keep it at this. Ipod nano=rip off. its 200$ for like 4 or so gigs. A Video is 300$ and it has like 10 times that. About 32 or so gigs.
Videos crash a lot. Main reason is that people abuse them (i.e. running/jogging with them). iPods with harddisks are not meant to be used by physically active people. If I mentioned this before, the arm floats above the disk only .73mm for the Video and .94mm for other iPods with harddisks. (not very high compared to a normal PC harddisk's arm floating 1.3-1.8cm above the disk). The arm is on a spring too, meaning any motion occurring outside the disk will result in the arm and needle (being the part that reads the disk via laser) bumping into the disk of the iPod. If the iPod is busy with unloading the cache, reading a song, photos, notes, videos, etc.; the disk
WILL spin. If the arm bumps into a spinning disk... not good.
If you are a person that likes to run or ride a bike or cut the grass while listening to your MP3 player, take the iPod Nano over the Video. Chances are it will last 20x longer than if you used the iPod Video.
EDIT: As I said before...
Alaskas Jenna wrote:
iPods are built like rocks. You can drop them all you want and they will still work. However, that is only for the flash-drive iPod models (i.e. iPod Mini, Shuffle, -the smaller models less than 6GB)
The problem with so many breaking is that people think the iPods with harddrives can take a lot of abuse and really they cant. Think of it this way: the spindle arm (arm that contains laser to read harddisk in all harddrives) floats approximately .94mm over the disk- while a normal computer may have it about 1-1.5cm (notice the difference?).
Thing is, the disk in the iPod must run to read a song, view photos, videos, etc. If someone bumps the iPod into something, drops it, jogs with it, etc., the arm will bump into the spinning drive, therefore leaving a looooooooooong scratch on the disk. Now imagine the the pain the arm must endure while trying to read a destroyed harddrive because of all the scratches on it. Harddrives are very fagile. That is why people have problems with their 20GB iPods and larger: they can't learn that the harddive inside is so fragile.
