Pricelist of MP3 Player 2008

An anodized aluminum top and polished stainless steel back. Five eye-catching colors. A larger, brighter display with the most pixels per inch of any Apple display, ever. iPod nano stirs up visual effects from the outside in. And it’ll wow you for hours. Play up to 5 hours of video or up to 24 hours of audio on a single charge. All that staying power and a wafer-thin, 6.5-mm profile makes iPod nano one small big attraction

I love my little nano
This is the third MP3 player I’ve owned, and the first iPod. It took some deciding to figure out which model I would buy. I knew I wasn’t going to be watching movies or TV episodes on a screen measuring a few square centimeters, so I didn’t need 80 gigabytes or whatever of storage. I also knew from past experience that my music player was going to get banged around, so I wanted a flash drive that wouldn’t skip or jam. That ruled out the full-size iPods. I was torn between the 4 GB and the 8 GB iPod nano. I went for the 4 GB, and I’m satisfied with my choice, though now I can see that the 8 GB would have been pretty sweet too. Pros & cons: In favor of the 4 GB nano, I can say that all I want to carry around in my pocket are the highlights of my music collection — the stuff I’ll actually listen to when I’m commuting or working out. And that’s substantially less than 10 GB of music. In favor of the 8 GB nano, you need half a gig of storage for the iPod software, so the 4 GB is really more like 3.5 GB. So the 8 GB model would have given me more flexibility. About the iPod nano generally: It’s delightfully small & lightweight, it’s easy to use, it has a high-quality screen despite its size, and the sound output seems good. However, the included earbuds are total crap — they may be useful for strangling an attacking chihuahua, but that’s about it. Music lovers will want to replace them with something more substantial (I went for portable Sennheisers and they’re great). Also on the negative side, I don’t find the iTunes interface very congenial. I used to use MusicMatch and I found it far easier. With MusicMatch, the user was in control. With iTunes, it’s Apple all the way. But none of these negatives outweighs the fact that the iPod nano is an excellent little music machine.