I believe that the ipod was the first Hard Drive based player on the market and they have improved the design and function with each new generation

Doesn't work on Linux: Mac OS X is UNIX-based, so Apple has the ability to make the iPod drivers/updater software work on UNIX/Linux/BSD

I wouldn't complain, except that I know PDAs are capable of these things, and I paid a PDA-sized price for this thing!Bitter bucks-based grumbling aside, the click wheel is a nifty innovation, I could play with it for hours

but you're saving a lot of money and from personal experience the docking station is really sort of a rip-off - based on the sleek design of the

iPod scratches a

The ipod does have quirks as well such as you can't delete a playlist from the unit on the go, you can't name the on the go playlists from the unit on the go and most of all it scratches so very easily