Looking to buy an iPod. Would rather have one unit with a lot of capabilities. The iPod video with 30g seems to be a good price point, but is it practical strap it on and run? or am I better to just get a Nano, or even shuffle?
With the blood, sweat, tears, and pavement an MP3 player is likely to see under exercise conditions, get the shuffle for working out. If you want to 30g, get it, it’s nice, but I wouldn’t carry it around on a run/ride.
For running, the best would be a flash-based iPod (Nano or shuffle). That being said, there are a lot of people who run with hard drive based iPods with no troubles or skipping. However, there are also those who have had lots of skipping problems. It depends a lot on how much bounce you have when you run and where you carry it.
Once again, I must chime in. The hard drive barely runs. Every 20 minutes or so, it spins up and bursts a bunch of music to the RAM and then shuts down. The music plays from the RAM and when you near the end (about 20 minutes), the drive spins up and dumps the next bunch of music. Not really a chance of skipping.
The 20 minutes is based on Music Store downloads. If you rip music at higher data rates, the drive will spin up more often. If you fiddle with your ipod while running like jumping to the next song or a skipping a bunch of songs, the drive will spin up more often. This still won’t cause the music to skip because the music still plays from RAM. Only if you skip through all the songs in RAM, you’ll get just a few seconds delay while the hard drive bursts a new set of songs to RAM.
YOu can run with it. I put it on my hip but the guy at the apple store said it would be better if i put it on my arm because it would have less impact.
The old one i had would freeze when i ran with it though but it was junk. I took it into Apple and they gave me a a new one. I ran with the new one yesterday and didn’t have any problems.
I would get a flash one though and not worry about it. I have a 20 and i use it more in my car for running a 2 or 4 mb is more then enough.
Grant
If you skip songs on play lists or have large files (uncompressed music, etc) the hard drive will have to spin up much more often than every 20 minutes. Also, it’s not Flash RAM that makes up the buffer, it’s SDRAM.
If you get the video, I will warn you that I have the 4th Gen 20GB and the hard drive just died while my wife was using it to run with. We’ve had it for over a year and take great care of it, but run with it on the arm. Not a whole lot of bounce to our strides and it didn’t seem as if it was taking too much abuse. After mine died, I found from others that the hard drives going out is pretty common, especially if used for running. So, I’ll be buying a nano shortly…
Thanks, just ordered a Nano.
Yes you can run with it; but you’ll void the warrantee (if you tell Apple it happened after a run). Running with it will eventually crash the hard drive. Some people run with them and nothing happens…you’ll be the one that self destructs 1/2 mile from your front door. Sometimes you can reformat them…I have a 5gb left after 4 reformats…used to be 20gb…get a solid state to sun.
I would upgrade to a SAMSUNG pocket-DVD player. Much better graphixs and the sound quality is as equally as good as with the “other” player if you use closed headphones.
Just my 2 cents.
You also get a better training effect for your upper body (should safe you some biceps curls in the weight room) when running with the portable DVD player…
Certainly go with a flash player for working out…Besides…the shuffle or nano is small enough you will hardly even notice you have it. If you have a large music collection (more than 1000 songs)…than I would recommend getting the Video IPod for those songs (for a jukebox, car, etc)…but i would still use a flash based player for working out (all sorts out there…most are even cheaper)…and no skipping our problems with a hard drive…
I liken it to running with a PC…if you drop it…bad things will happen…flash devices are much more stable.
I think the real question here is can you run with an Ipod video while watching porn
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I was thinking that strapping an iPod full of porn to the aerobars would be an ideal way to test if your saddle/position was doing any damage to the nerves leading to your tackle.