<p>Hi -
I am going to be a music major. I will be listening to music a lot, and I need to find a good iPod. I personally think that the iPod classic would be more appropriate for me, since the iPod touch can be a little distractive. </p>
<p>I know the iPod touch is pretty awesome, but I need to know if it is distracting to college kids?</p>
<p>they both can be. i have the ipod classic and my brother has the ipod touch. i personally prefer the classic since it has like 5 times the memory that the touch has</p>
<p>I think the question is not if it’s distracting to college kids, but more of would it be more distracting to you? It all depends on your personality, are you the kind of person that would get distracted by having games (I know I do:P), or having access to a browser, etc?</p>
<p>What it comes down to is capacity or functionality. If you’re gonna carry around 120 gigs of music, go with a Classic. If you only have 8/16/32 gigs of music, perhaps the extras on a iPod Touch interest you.</p>
<p>I have an iPod touch and would HIGHLY recommend it. I use it mostly to check my email and check RSS feeds as well as listen to podcasts/videocasts. If you’re worried about being distracted from games, don’t download them. If you’re worried about web browsing, don’t be, the screen is too small to stare at comfortably for more than 10 minutes. I rarely use the internet on it. Plus, they have some really cool/useful apps for college students that will come very handy.</p>
<p>I would go for the iTouch. I have the 2nd generation 8gb iPhone and an 8gb iTouch, even though I will probably end up selling my touch because I have the phone. But it really does come in handy, especially in college I would say just because you can connect to Wi-Fi to check your e-mails on top of anything else you want. Also, you can find an application for anything, a lot of them that helps organize everything. If you jailbreak your iTouch, you can completely customize everything on it, which I really like.</p>
<p>I don’t think web browsing is that bad. A lot of sites now have or are in the process of making iPhone/iTouch versions of their sites, which help, but you can also zoom if they don’t. </p>
<p>As for the distraction factor, I would agree with what frank01 said.</p>
<p>If you’re gonna go for the iTouch as blupowerade suggests, you might want to get the less expensive children’s version which has just about the same memory, the iTouch kids. It’s really quite economical, and I personally love mine. Can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than listening to some Michael Jackson on my iTouch kids.</p>
<p>That joke was too drawn out.</p>
<p>if you’re just going to be listening to music, go for the classic. way more space for your dollar.</p>
<p>the itouch is a pretty damn sweet thing to have with the wifi and all the apps.</p>
<p>i absolutely love the itouch.</p>
<p>i got to play with an iTouch this weekend, and it’s pretty awesome to be able to check email on your iPod…</p>
<p>I think it depends on how much music you have. The touch is cool, but I have 60 GB of music and I’d rather be able to put all of it on my ipod.</p>
<p>Though I am ticked that the classic only comes in 120 GB now…after I got the 80 GB one.</p>
<p>If you have a lot of CDs and plan to rip them to your iPod, you want the classic. You will fill up that storage space a lot faster than you think.</p>
<p>Depends how much music you have. I just bought a touch off ebay and love being able to use it basically as a PDA as well as to play games and music. However, I’ve had to pick and choose what music I can put on there…I probably should have gotten a 32gb instead of the 16, but I got a pretty good deal on it.</p>
<p>So, they don’t even sell 80gb classics??? I think that’s pretty ridiculous…</p>