Kelly and I were driving around shopping together, and we started talking about iPods. She is quite happy with her iPod nano and its protective green and pink iSkin. Kids at school like it how hers looks. (She was allowed to bring it to school in the last week of the semester.)
She does wish she had 4 gigabytes like Claire’s instead of just 1 Gigabyte. I pointed out that she made that choice when I offered to pay half of whatever she wanted. “Yeah… but I didn’t really understand a gigabyte… I have to spend more time moving music on and off my Nano.” But otherwise, she is quite happy with it.
I told her I was thinking about getting the 80 gigabyte iPod. She was impressed. “How many songs would that hold?” she asked. I explained that all of the music we have on our iMac adds up to 20 gigabytes. She immediately got that the extra space could be for videos and TV shows.
I did not think to tell her that our very first Mac with a hard drive only had 20 megabytes of hard disk space. That’s a mere 20% of her Nano.
The tech moral of the story: Always buy up on storage/memory space.
Generally I think that is true. But with the nano you are paying for small size. Even today Apple sells the 8 GB nano for the same price as the larger 30 GB video iPod. Though the 80 GB iPod is a better value in terms of capacity, people like the nano or shuffle because they are small. Kelly got that same small size as the more expensive nanos for a lower price, but as you say, she will have to change out the music on it more often. One of the best purchases I made was the CD changer for my car. It holds 10 CD’s and I can easily go a week or more before I have to reload it with CD’s. But that’s still less music than Kelly’s iPod holds.