I just bought a 8gig 3rd gen Nano from apple.ca
with taxes cost me 240 dollars. Canadian dollars!! So thats like 300 USD!! LOL kidding probably 250 usd.
This is my first Ipod ever and I love it!! Also, my first portable music playing machine. The reason I dont get classic for only a tiny bit more money is because of size. I have to have a tiny mp3 player for when I work out or run. Also when walking in between classes it has to fit in my jean pockets without making me uncomfortable. Dam designer jeans with tiny pockets that hold very little.
But if you really want the itouch I say get it....I put all my music that I collected from my computer(for the last 5 years) on my ipod and I have 5 gigs left....lol
only 450 songs right now. But I only keep songs on my computer that I can listen to more then 100 times. So each song I keep is epic and I truely love it.
Just my 2 cents from a fellow Ipod user!!!!!
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