IPOD question
 

I am considering buying my 12 year old an IPOD for Christmas. The IPOD nano retails for $150. That is about my financial limit, and I was wondering if anyone has one, and what they think of it.

and yes I realize I am the last person on earth who doesn't already have one!

we've got a couple of Ipod Nano's. 2Gig which is what goes for $150, I think, holds a lot of songs and is very easy to use. I love my Nike + system that I use with it for running too.

Check the Apple refurb store. They usually have some good deals. That's where I got my kids' Nanos.

Is that online Steve or just a bricks and mortar apple store?

Actually Apple online has the 8GB nano for 149.00.\

They sell them online--I don't know whether they sell refurbed gear at their brick&mortar stores. (I'd guess not.)

Does it have to be an IPOD? We got the boys much cheaper mp3 players and they are totally happy with them.

She is a 12 year old girl - image is as important(or more so) than function :rolleyes:

I just got a 16GB nano for my birthday...it retails for $199. I went back and forth for a while between a nano ($199) and the iPod classic ($249 for 120GB, which is the only one they have now). I have over 200 gigs of music now, and when I do listen to my iPod on an extended basis, I might shuffle through a thousand songs tops. I don't want an integrated iPod and music player, and I don't like the touch screen on the iPhone. And the nano just looks sharp. So I went with a green nano.

Very satisfied with it so far...easy to use, love the physical shuffle and the cover flow. Can't believe how freakin' small it is...my auxiliary cable for the car is wider than the nano itself. I personally would be concerned about something so small for a 12-year old, but if she's responsible, then I guess it'd be cool.

Earlier tonight, I was showing April an example of how far we have come technologically in the past 10 years. In one hand, I had the internal HD from my first desktop computer--2 gigs. In the other hand, my nano, about 1/8th the size of that HD--16 gigs.

Ipods are killer! 2 gig is not big enough. Amazon has good prices on ipods.

You may prefer a notpod, especially now that Amazon MP3 has been declared a winner. Nano 16gb $200? Creative Zen 16gb $163.

i swear by my 32g touch... i used to have the 16g but my library, being well over 31gigs, just neeeeeded a bigger iPod.

I've toyed around with the touch a bit, how does it do performance wise when the hard drive is nearly full? My current 30gig video ipod that's a few years old is kinda sluggish in the menus and switching songs.