music player with 80 GB hard drive

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I have a 40-gig iPod. The extra space is nice, but I've only managed to fill it with approximately 25 gigs of music. (No videos. Fuck videos.)

Although I can appreciate the novelty of having 40 gigs of music in one device, realistically, I must ask: what purpose is there truly in storing so much? It's one thing to say you have all that stuff, but do you even realize how long it would take you to listen to it all? The battery would go dead long before you even managed to hear 25% of that collection.

How many times have you been someplace where you were able to listen to 8-10 hours of music for nothing else to do? And even with the standard 20-40 gig players, how much of your collection do you truly listen to on a routine basis? (I'm an exception to these questions, ironically, I believe. I listen to just about everything at least once in each two-week span. It occupies my mind as I go about during each 32-hour work week.)

It's at this point that I feel the capacity to create an 80-gig music player truly exceeds anyone's practical need for so much moving memory.

The appeal of having more music on a portable device isn't that you'll listen to all of it, but that it gives you a wider choice of what to listen to. At least that's my take on it. I don't even own an mp3 player.

Jam it back in, in the dark.