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[nick800]

whats the differance between the 5gb and 10gb models besides the .03 depth differance and the differant capacity hard drives? The apple site says that the 10 and 20 have no moving parts, what moving parts does the 5 have?

[FunkTron]

Every iPod has moving parts because it has a hard drive inside. Apple's Web site pretty much blows as much puffery and fluffy smoke up the readers arse that you have to take what it says with a pretty hefty grain of salt. Apple occasionally "innovates" by creating concepts that are really non-important to the main body of the populace (like talking Gigaflops on desktop computers, heh, what a crock - or like using specific, Adobe-engineered plugins and sets of Photoshop benchmarks to portray the slow, old G4 as a "pentium-crushing" processor.. LMFAO)

There is no real fundamental difference between the 5, 10 and 20 gb models. It may be referring, however, in the "moving parts" to something about the wheel control or the like. But really, the only difference in the machines are the sizes of the hard disks and *possibly* the speed of data transfer.

FUNK

PS: forgot about COST. HUNDREDS of dollars in cost between the two. Maybe they mean no moving parts because you have to use plastic or a check and not multiple dollar bills to pay for the 10GB and 20GB models.