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I am considering procuring a 20GB iPod in the immediate future, however, as someone who doesn't have a particular fast connection at home, and doesn't have an Apple interface at all, I am rather skittish about the entire business, and so I turn to you lot. Tell me everything you think I should know.*

[Poll #589083]

*I have also been told that once you set up one computer as your base, you can't use other computers to upload your music without losing all the contents of your iPod. I have also been told there is a way around this. Educate me kids, because my base will not be a consistent thing, like, ever.

ETA: Thank you, all of you, for your assistance!

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[missdeviant.livejournal.com]

I've had a 15 GB Dell DJ for three years now, it's mega-huge and clunky (bigger than a cassette tape - ye gads!), and yet I love it all the same. The buttons are easier to grope at than the iPod, and, when driving from Illinois to Texas, got 19 hours of battery life out if it. Its only bad quality is that this version does not have a shuffle feature. I've never had any of the problems with it that I've heard others have had with iPods, like the erasing/battery going kerfutz, etc.

I know nothing about their current generation of mp3 players, but I've always liked Dell, both for the DJ and their computers.

That said, when the video iPod comes out? I am so there.

[missdeviant.livejournal.com]

er, I meant to say that the DJ does not have a full LIBRARY shuffle feature. You can shuffle any playlists that you create, but unless you make a separate full library playlist, it doesn't just randomly pick and choose.

[jennyagain.livejournal.com]

eee! icon! time traveler's wife!

::squees all over the place::