The ability to search is a wonderful improvement.

Mine works perfectly and the ability to carry around well over a thousand albums with near CD quality is quite incredible

.One additional note, if you've enjoyed the ability to fix minor things with your Ipod, like battery replacement or hard drive replacement, those days are also gone.

The CoverFlow is a neat idea, even if it's slow to start moving, but not all of the album covers for the music I have can be found (there's a lot of classical albums out there that apparently aren't as important as the latest pop or R&B)

say I play movie "A", then I turn off the unit, three days later I feel like watching Movie "B", and then Movie "C,D

I could never dream back then as I ruined so many cassette tapes packing them around that there would be the day

The iPod itself was exactly what l wanted and works just fine.

I could never dream back then as I ruined so many cassette tapes packing them around that there would be the day

Well, Ican`t complain