Hi Robin, Nice seeing you at the HT Holiday gathering last week! I second what Chris recommended about going to the Apple store at the Holyoke Mall to try them all out. That's an excellent suggestion! Nothing better that plugging in and demoing something before buying. Find a nice, patient geek to show you how they work. I have the iPod Nano and it meets my needs fine. I like it because it has a display, but is nice and small, super easy to connect to my mac via USB, and syncs up without missing a beat. It holds tons of songs, and has playlists for allowing you to organize them according to genre, or other criteria. I listen to some motivational stuff while falling asleep and I find the lighted display and control wheel system make it quick and easy to use with bleary eyes in the dark. I haven't bought a speaker dock for it yet since I have computer speakers from Cambridge Soundworks that I can plug into it which sound really great. Good luck and have fun! Best, Kimo AZURELINK :: "Simply Connected!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Site Design & Scalable, Managed Web Hosting Joomla! Content Management System Implementation eCommerce Development ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 321 Main Street, Suite 4 Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-2020 Skype-In: (413) 306-4248 Fax: (413) 825-8344 For more information, please visit: www.azurelink.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Robin, > > Skip on over to the Apple Store in the Holyoke Mall and have a look at > them. You can play with them, ask questions, talk to the sales people, > and so on. One of the things I LOVE about the Apple Store is that the > sales people are on salary, NOT commission. They are there to answer > your questions and make you happy. They never hard sell or upsell, > because the pay structure isn't designed to reward that behavior > like it > is in so many other places. I've gotten free diagnostic help at the > Genius Bar that ended with the recommendation that I go to Yes > Computers, because Yes could get me third party parts or out of date > items. They also always have plenty of people on hand to help out and > answer questions. Not the shortages of sales people you see in so many > places. > > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments > (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091217/7281a788/attachment.html