With regard to my first post I didn't intend to aggravate or annoy anyone, or take a shot at them - merely point out that to me the approach didn't make sense. It stands to reason that one size doesn't fit all, nor did I state that it did or should. Obviously badly expressed on my part.
Now that you've clarified your circumstances Lillee (smallish collection, time away from home stereo) I can see (and accept) why you'd want a larger Touch. And reading my post it is clear that I'm not referring to replacing all my music at one go in five mins, but rather some of it - By the way by your math Lillee, 5mins should be good for 60gb - must be a very quick computer, my macmini can only do 8gb in that time
I guess what I was driving at is that the bigger is better approach may not always be the most appropriate. Take for example the Classics talked about here. To me the fact that they are a hard drive means there are issues of mechanical wear and tear, hard drive shock, rewrite cycles, access speeds, etc all of which either don't exist or are minimised on a flash drive as on the Touch. Having had an 80gb iPod video fail due to shock to the hard drive after a 2 foot fall, means I won't trust that technology again (I've dropped my Touches often enough that I've had the replace the screen. Twice. But they still run...). Now maybe due to budget some people may want something that can hold their entire collection, but to me on a hard drive that's a risk I wouldn't take (sort of like not having redundant backups for a computer music system - another lesson learned the hard way).
As I see it my use of the Fostex is as a portable set-up - commuting daily between home and offices (where a Wadia iTransport and an iStreamer are used for the same purpose) and for lunch-times. In this way a slim Touch or Nano is good. For others such as yourself Lillee the Fostex is a transportable system whereyb the bigger bulk of the Classic suits your needs. Horses for courses.
Hope this clarifies and ameliorates my points.
regards,
Giles
