the video quality is great and the multiple uses of a pocket sized hard drive are fantastic

Cons:- Feeling the hard drive spin up and click is a bit disconcerting after using the

Also the iPod is a delicate mechanical hard drive

Battery discharges quickly; but charges quickly too.- The 60GB hard drive is

Your hard drive will also have a space for your picture library, which will also automatically load on the iPod

See, the iPod functions as an external hard drive, so you can backup all sorts of data

It also works well as an external hard-drive and is able to stall more files than more regular external h'drives at a close price range.

If you don't, the iPod will sync with your computer automatically, and if you have deleted music, video or pictures from your hard drive OR connect the iPod to multiple computers (as I do), you will find your music, video and pictures get deleted from the iPod

I do think the hard drives moves a bit slowly.

Once you've got it sitting nicely on the 60 GB hard drive, you can access it in the menus and begin to watch.

My music is on a seperate hard drive, so after importing all the songs into itunes (about an hour process, on a FAST computer), the next time i unplugged the hard drive itunes thought none of my music existed

the only option left is to copy it to your hard drive. which i finally decided to do, but with a 60 gb ipod, there is s much space it can take

Once iTunes is on your hard drive (Windows and Mac compatible) it will automatically add your .mp3 files on its library

I started backing up some of my most important files to the iPod when it dawned me that I still wasn't using hardly any of its 60 Gb hard drive capacity

It also works well as an external hard-drive and is able to stall more files than more regular external h'drives at a close price range.

When I later copy those files onto my PC hard-drive, the iPod ram is replenished

and you can actually feel the hard drive engage when you play a song

Hard drives just aren't meant to be jostled, jogged with or dropped

just like Mac or PC hard drives, just when you think you have a hard drive that is so big that "i'll never fill this thing up

As it's a hard-drive then it has a buffer of about 25 minutes, if you use it to go jogging for example then it will start skipping after about 30 minutes

A hard drive has moving parts and they don't do well with shock

Also the iPod is a delicate mechanical hard drive

Automatically; it will retrieve and stall any tracks you have on your computer's hard-drive and keep them listed in convenient alphabetical order with all the track's info (including the date of production and the names of the producers and composers).

I'm sure this has to do with the slow hard drives that Apple uses in it's iPods but, come on, people are paying $400 for these things.

I'd be much more comfortable swapping files between a smaller flash player than a big 60gb hard drive model

i could feel the Hard Drive spinning on the inside

But now I just use my ipod as a portable hard drive

I had already cleared 60 GB of empty space on my second hard drive.

The 40GB click wheel iPod I bought for my husband for Christmas last year died (hard drive fried) 360 days after he opened the box but one year and 3 weeks past when I bought it.

These problems, however, are all inherent in hard drive mp3 players

Last thing to address in my rant is the fragile nature of hard drives

Basically, the iPod video is bigger, bulkier, and heavier than the nano, and also has soft clicks and vibrations from the internal hard drive.

But now I just use my ipod as a portable hard drive

I have had all types of high capacity hard drive mp3 players from I-river to Cowon to the original PJB, Archos etc....

There are also iPod A/V cables available that allow composite video and audio output, for connecting your iPod to your television