The iPod 5G (aka. Video) is sup­pose to drop in stores this week. What the heck was Apple think­ing by doing this? I mean come on, it has­n’t even been a year since the iPod Nanos dropped, and here its—the new 5G!

Besides that, I am won­der­ing whether upgrad­ing to a 30GB 5G is even worth it and a smarth move. The pros that I see with the 5G over my Pho­to would prob­a­bly be:

• the video of course!
• lighter and small­er form fac­tor
• sleek­er design

And the cons would be:

• the price dif­fer­ence I’ll need to cov­er when I upgrade
• time it’ll take me to re-orga­nize and synch with the new iPod and my PC
• the mon­ey I need to spend in terms of acces­sories for it (i.e. cov­er, fm trans­mit­ter, etc.)
• acces­sories that used the top-con­nec­tor would be abso­lete with it

I guess one major fac­tor that needs to be addressed would be, “will I even enjoy watch­ing a movie for 1–3 hours on a 2.5‑inch, 320 x 240 pix­el dis­play?” Right now, I don’t think so. Just imag­ine hold­ing your iPod and hav­ing it in a com­fort­able posi­tion were your neck won’t be sore after watch­ing a movie. I just can not see any sce­nar­ios right now were this would be ben­e­fi­cial.

Besides, I just freak­ing went eBay crazy these past cou­ple of days. They were most­ly sport­ing good pur­chas­es con­sist­ing of the fol­low­ing:

• Colum­bia 300 Ric­o­chet Rebound Bowl­ing Ball (14lbs. 3oz.)
• Mizuno Crush 2 Base­ball Bat (34 inch­es, 27 ounces)
• Knobcuffs (for my bats)

Not to men­tion, I’m look­ing into invest­ing into some seri­ous glass for my pho­tog­ra­phy addic­tion. Alas, tech­nol­o­gy… it gets bet­ter by the minute. I just hope peo­ple do as well.