I got the new iPod as an early birthday gift and I :love: it!!!!!!!!!!

I had the mini before, but this thing blows the mini out of the water. Big color screen, and it holds tons of photos, music videos, and TV series (I just bought the most recent episode of Lost for $1.99). The screen clarity is incredible--there's no slowness or "blips." It reminds me of a small flat-screen TV...

Oh yeah, and it plays music, too. :lmao:

I would definitely recommend this as a Christmas gift.

Try loading a video. The screen is incredible.

I have a 30 GB too. There's no way I'm ever going to fill it up!

I have 70 days worth of music on my iPod

:yikes:

When do you listen to these things? Is the radio not good enough? :confused:

My daughter wanted an MP3 for Christmas, so of course I got her one. :lol: I'm thinking she could listen to it as she's riding her scooter or bike, or writing on the sidewalk with chalk. :shrug:

What is a good ipod for a kid? :eyebrow: This is on my son's Christmas list and it does not need to hold more than say 500 songs. He is only 10 so he'll be hard pressed to come up with 500 songs to put on it.

What is a good ipod for a kid? :eyebrow: This is on my son's Christmas list and it does not need to hold more than say 500 songs. He is only 10 so he'll be hard pressed to come up with 500 songs to put on it.
The Shuffle is small & about $99 anywhere. I bought a nice MP3 for $60 at Wal-Mart a few weekends ago. :yay: If you wake up early enough on Friday, you'll probably be able to find a really good deal on one.

When do you listen to these things? Is the radio not good enough? :confused:

My daughter wanted an MP3 for Christmas, so of course I got her one. :lol: I'm thinking she could listen to it as she's riding her scooter or bike, or writing on the sidewalk with chalk. :shrug:

Radio=commercials

You can buy the adapter and listen to the iPod in the car, play it off of speakers, or listen to it on the Metro (just hide it from the thugs). :lmao:

The Shuffle is small & about $99 anywhere. I bought a nice MP3 for $60 at Wal-Mart a few weekends ago. :yay: If you wake up early enough on Friday, you'll probably be able to find a really good deal on one.
Hey Vixen... on a side note, if you get him the ipod, be sure to set up an itunes account for him. Folks can get him itune certificates for birthdays and other gift giving occasions, and he will have the freedom to pick exact songs he wants. The itunes website is very easy to navigate and overs a huge selection of music. iTunes gift cards can be purchased at Target stores and iTunes gift certificates can be purchased online.

Hey Vixen... on a side note, if you get him the ipod, be sure to set up an itunes account for him. Folks can get him itune certificates for birthdays and other gift giving occasions, and he will have the freedom to pick exact songs he wants. The itunes website is very easy to navigate and overs a huge selection of music. iTunes gift cards can be purchased at Target stores and iTunes gift certificates can be purchased online.Days sister & BIL are getting them from us. :yay:

Radio=commercials

You can buy the adapter and listen to the iPod in the car, play it off of speakers, or listen to it on the Metro (just hide it from the thugs). :lmao:
Gotcha! I don't know much about them, other than I recently bought one. :lol:

or listen to it on the Metro (just hide it from the thugs).
That part is a real concern. It seems that people are getting mugged for their ipods. I let my son take his MP3 to school (he listens to it in the bus) but I won't let him take an ipod (if he ever gets one) because of the likelyhood some punk will steal it.

That part is a real concern. It seems that people are getting mugged for their ipods. I let my son take his MP3 to school (he listens to it in the bus) but I won't let him take an ipod (if he ever gets one) because of the likelyhood some punk will steal it.
What's the difference between the two? Sorry, I'm clueless. :lol:

What's the difference between the two? Sorry, I'm clueless. :lol:
Quality, technology, and price, thus ipod has a sort of 'status' thing going. I don't think the thugs would worry much about the $99 mini-pods, but should someone happen to have an ipod such as the one Ctygirl just got, they are automatic targets.

but should someone happen to have an ipod such as the one Ctygirl just got, they are automatic targets.

:yeahthat:

My iPod runs for $299 and the one with 60 GB runs for $399. :target: automatically on my forehead on the Metro, unless I stick it inside my jacket or someplace like that.

:yeahthat:

My iPod runs for $299 and the one with 60 GB runs for $399. :target: automatically on my forehead on the Metro, unless I stick it inside my jacket or someplace like that.
The white cords to the earphones are an automatic flag. Can you use generic earplugs with the ipod...:confused:

Are any of them equipped with Blue Tooth?

The white cords to the earphones are an automatic flag. Can you use generic earplugs with the ipod...:confused:

Yes

Are any of them equipped with Blue Tooth?

I wish!

I still don't understand why anyone would want to watch a movie or TV show or look at pictures on a 2.5" screen :ohwell: For music, I'd rather have the Nano.

Isn't this just another technological doodad that allows you to slam the door on the outside world and dwell only in your inner sanctum?

Are we creating a society of introverts who cannot be bothered by things like eye contact, speaking a greeting, conversing?

:bubblepeople:

The same thing could be said about PS2's, computers, TV's, those kinds of things.

The same thing could be said about PS2's, computers, TV's, those kinds of things.
True but those things are in your house. With these mobile devices even leaving your home you can stay secluded.

There are places they could be more usable than others. Like the gym, it is hard to conduct a conversation when you’re on a treadmill or an elliptical, and I personally would rather listen to music than talk to somebody when I'm working out.

I could see it being usable for long trips The metro is an ideal place to use a mobile type radio. If you start chatting away with somebody on the metro bus they will give you :twitch: looks.

I think devices like computers and game systems keep people more secluded than an MP3/Ipod.

On the way home I heard about this on the radio. George Will op/ed on the very subject I was talking about. (http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=63239)

This is the point I was trying to make but Will of course does it better.

The connection is this: Many people have no notion of propriety when in the presence of other people, because they are not actually in the presence of other people, even when they are in public.

With everyone chatting on cell phones when not floating in iPod-land, "this is an age of social autism, into which people just can't see the value of imagining their impact on others." We are entertaining ourselves in inanition. (There are Web sites for people with Internet addiction. Think about that.) And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable "limitless self-absorption," which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and anti-social. Hence manners are becoming unmannerly in this "age of lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence."

And this too

"People," says Truss, "are happier when they have some idea of where they stand and what the rules are." But today's entitlement mentality, which is both a cause and a consequence of the welfare state, manifests itself in the attitude that it is all right to do whatever one has a right to do. Which is why acrimony has enveloped a coffee shop on Chicago's affluent North Side, where the proprietor posted a notice that children must "behave and use their indoor voices." The proprietor, battling what he calls an "epidemic" of anti-social behavior, told The New York Times that parents protesting his notice "have a very strong sense of entitlement."

I often used to wonder what was going through peoples minds when they/their terrorist kids are acting an ass in public. This clarifies it, they believe they are entitled to act an ass.

I read the article and although mobile devices may contribute in the over all lack of “good manners” in our society, it is only a catalyst, IMO. The analytical side of me could list a novel of reasons.

People kid’s act like asses in public because parents are touchy feely and think they can rationalize with children instead of giving them a swift :smack: (But not to the head :nono:)

It makes me glad I grew up in militant household. I get a taste of reality everyday on how my life “could” have turned out without the discipline I endured everyday.