iWant

[ Mood: In Love ]
I’m not much of an Apple guy. I certainly don’t hate Apple–in fact, I often think maybe my next notebook computer will be an Apple, and then I think, "Damn, for the price difference, I could buy two Dells with the same power." And I wouldn’t be stuck with a useless one-button touchpad.

And I kinda like my Sansa MP3 player, especially the MicroSD card port, that lets me add a gigabyte of storage for $20. Soon that’ll be 2 gigs.

But I tell you, I may finally be ready to buy an iPod. The just-announced iPod Touch, to be exact. It’s a little pricey at $399, but that’s the 16GB version, and it (finally!) has a full-face screen, like the iPhone, so it competes with my PSP as a video player. Plus it has WiFi, which means I can check Gmail without booting up my PC at home, and check it in some places while I’m outside. And it has all the neato features of the iPhone, without, y’know, being a phone and forcing me into some multiyear contract with a different company that I don’t have a family plan with.

I really groaned when the iPhone came out, because I figured Apple wouldn’t make a full-face-screen video iPod, as it would compete with the iPhone. But they’ve gone for it. This is the iPod I’ve been holding out for for about 3 years! Bye-bye PSP.

Now if only it had a memory expansion slot…

superdave