Apple iPod FTW
I finally caved and bought an iPod. After plugging it in and dumping some songs using iTunes I was a little confused with the menus -- too many options, and why read the manuals... It quickly became apparent I'd be using the playlists option a lot. :) iTunes allows you to create smart playlists, these things are insane. You can filter out and not listen to songs you've skipped twice (or once) before, or only play songs you haven't heard in 30 days. It's simple, but powerful. I was really impressed by this. When you plug it into your computer, the iPod (If properly configured) can act as a hard drive that you can just dump data too, however, to actually playback music and video you need to register it with the iPod's internal database (Use iTunes -- Turn off that auto sync stuff though) it's VERY handy to have mass storage everywhere you go (Providing you bring your USB cable) Movie playback is good, but you for best results rip and encode your own DVDs, the qual...