# To Touch or Not to Touch

- Link: https://www.timprobst.com/2007/09/08/to-touch-or-not-to-touch/
- Published: 2007-09-08T13:15:32-05:00
- Author: Tim Probst

Unless you’ve been buried under a rock for the last week, you already know that 
Apple released an entire [new line of iPods](http://www.apple.com/itunes/) at their
special event on Wednesday. The [iPod shuffle](http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/)
has been refreshed with new colors, the [iPod nano](http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/)
has a whole new look and feel, the iPod is now a [classic](http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/),
and the [iPod touch](http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/) is the iPhone’s younger cousin.
Consumers now have more choices than ever when it comes to their iPod purchases.

Without spending time with the new models, it looks like Apple has a winning lineup
for this holiday season. The thing that bothers me a bit is that if I were to buy
a new iPod, I would have to choose between form and storage. I would love to have
an iPod touch because of its incredible user interface and its new wireless features.
The problem with the iPod touch for me is that it really has very little storage.
My music library is humongous, I subscribe to many podcasts, I have a very large
photo collection, and I have a ton of television shows and movies from my TiVo that
I would love to take with me on the road. It would be incredibly annoying for me
to constantly have to pick and choose which media to take with me if I only had 
16GB of storage to work with. On the other hand, the new iPod classic has enough
storage to hold every single one of my media files assuming I don’t put every single
movie on there. The classic would be a huge upgrade over my 20GB iPod (dock connector).
I would gain photos and video and a whole lot more, but I wouldn’t have Internet
or the touch interface.

So, now you know my dilemma. Do I touch, or do I go with a classic?