Re: ipod
All this IPod hype is just that, hype. Archos has been doing multi-gig devices for ages. They have the video on the go and the smallest 20gb mp3 player even before ipod was a twinkle in Jobs’s eyes:
http://archos.com/products/prw_500703.html
I own the AV380 which is the 1st generation Archos video player with 80 gb of drive space.