Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
8GB of music?

I like my tunes as much as the next guy, but I don't see the need to carry around 130 hours+ of music on my person.

If I was moving to a desert island for a year or using the unit as the repository of all music for my home system, I can see the merit, but anything that holds thirty or forty songs has got to be good enough for a portable unit.
*coughs*
Ahem. I have a 30GB one, which is 2/3 full, and I'm unhappy with what music I have on it.

You see, it's not that simple:

1. I'm picky. Really picky. I get bored of listening to the same stuff, over and over. I'm sure that doesn't make me unique, or special, and there must be loads of individuals just like me in that aspect. So I want the stuff recycled as often as possible.

2. Bigger size means you have to recycle the music on it less often. Recycling it is usually a pain in the butt, because we people are lazy. I can rarely bring myself to dig through a bunch of cds, look for something that *might* pique my interest, then transfer it on my puter, then put it on the mp3 player, possibly needing to decide to remove something from the player in order to make more room.
It's a chore. So I want to do it as rarely as possible.

3. 8 GB is really, really, not that much. A regular album, MP3 format ripped from an audio cd at 320kbps is gonna be anywhere between 100MB and 200MB.
Also, do note that "8GB" is nowhere near 8GB actually. It's "8 billion bytes", which is much less. On top of that, you have the mini-OS which also takes up a bit of space (especially for hard-disk based ones), and, poof, there go the megabytes!
For example, my so-called 30GB harddrive actually has about 27.4GB or 27.8GB (can't remember exactly), because, just like I said, it's 30 billion bytes. At that size, the difference is considerable.

Now, did I manage to convince you of the difficulties I'm facing ? Is that a tear in the corner of your eye ?