Apple finally announced an iPod with enough capacity to hold my entire music collection with enough room to spare for tons of video and photos too. Yup, 160GB of pure Apple love with soon be in my hands. In addition, since I’m lucky enough to deal directly with Apple through my MGM gig, I was able to get the Apple employee discount from my contact at Apple.

Now all I’m waiting on is for my Sprint contract to run out so I can add an iPhone to my collection of Apple gadgets.

I wonder if I can just have my paycheck deposited directly into Apple’s bank account. It would make the whole buying process go so much quicker.

[UPDATE]
So, I’m loving my new iPod. The capacity is immense. I have around 20,000 tracks  on it (thank god for the search feature), 30+ movies and I still have 30GB+ available.

Initially the performance was a bit slow. Navigating from screen to screen would take a couple seconds of loading. CoverFlow took even longer. Apple has released 2 updates for it since I got it and the performance has improved a bunch. Syncing is still excruciatingly slow. It took me 7 minutes to sync this morning. 30 seconds just to mount and unmount the drive. The only thing I was adding was 3 podcasts. The progress bar always shows what’s being updated and it’s always the same songs and files that haven’t changed AT ALL. I don’t get it. Hopefully they improve the syncing. Until they do, I’ll have to be sure to get it done well before Jeni comes to pick me up in the mornings.

One last note about CoverFlow, they need to add the ’skip to letter’ functionality to it as flipping through a large library takes FOREVER. Good thing I don’t use CoverFlow that often.