Is an 8gb Ipod Touch going to be big enough?

jog

We are hoping to buy our son an Ipod touch for Christmas, he won't be saving a huge amount of music on it but will be using it for radio podcasts, and also some games and probably wi-fi. I'm trying to decide if an 8gb one will be OK for him or would it be better to pay the extra for a larger memory?

I keep looking on the apple refurbished website, hoping I could get a cheaper one with more memory, but haven't seen any for a while.

Have you got an 8gb one? If so is the memory OK or do you wish you'd got one with more memory?

Thanks for helping.

Jog

phatbear

Horses for courses matey.

The thing that is gonna kick the hell out of the touch's memory is videos, ie movies.

Music as such you are looking at your average mp3 being between 3mb and 5mb so given that 8gb is actually 4096mb that means you would get approx 800 and 1300 tracks.

Podcasts tend not to be huge either.

8gb for average use ie music few vids and a bit of surfing 8gb will be fine, however as my mum use to tell me bigger is usually better.

edison1457

yes it is enough for a normal music lover to store over 1k tracks.

da1seggy

phatbear wrote: »

given that 8gb is actually 4096mb

Ok, you've lost me. I know that with file systems & such you lose some of your "advertised" storage space - a 1TB hard drive in a PC is really 930GB - but I don't see how an 8GB iPod equate to only 4GB of space?

I'm buying myself a 16GB iPhone, is there something I should know about?

Fifer

edison1457 wrote: »

yes it is enough for a normal music lover to store over 1k tracks.

Depends on your definition of music lover. I'm one and 8GB wouldn't come close to storing my collection. I've run out of space with 32GB and that's just using 192kbps.

The big issue (for me) with iPods and memory is that you're stuck with what you buy as there is no way of expanding it. If you discover you need more, you don't nuy a memory card, you buy a new iPod (or something expandable). That can get to be expensive.

rsykes2000

da1seggy wrote: »

Ok, you've lost me. I know that with file systems & such you lose some of your "advertised" storage space - a 1TB hard drive in a PC is really 930GB - but I don't see how an 8GB iPod equate to only 4GB of space?

I'm buying myself a 16GB iPhone, is there something I should know about?

I think they made an error. 8GB isn't = 4096 MB
With the hard disk and O/S overhead it'll work out to around 7.3Gb free space.

lfc321

Yes, around 7.3 GB. About 1750 songs (plus a few photos) on mine. Video uses much more space though, and I guess games do too??

As general advice, I'd always suggest you get the most storage space you can afford. Even if 8GB is enough now he'll probably wish he had more in 12 months time. I could never imagine how I was going to fill the 40MB hard drive on my first PC.

totalsolutions

16GB here and 4.5GB free space. More is better I'm afraid.

CharlieBilly

We have two in house one 8gb and another 16gb. 16gb is pretty full but its full of apps as well as music

The 8gb is still got fair bit of space

edison1457

Fifer wrote: »

Depends on your definition of music lover. I'm one and 8GB wouldn't come close to storing my collection. I've run out of space with 32GB and that's just using 192kbps.

The big issue (for me) with iPods and memory is that you're stuck with what you buy as there is no way of expanding it. If you discover you need more, you don't nuy a memory card, you buy a new iPod (or something expandable). That can get to be expensive.

Try to compress the file. how much MB is your one file(average)

NeverInDebt

Average let me see I say for a decent rip 320kbps (CD'ish quality) using MP3 around 5-6mb for one song longer if its a long track