32GB Touch or 80GB Classic?

Hello, very soon I am buying an iMac and my local apple store have made me a deal that I can have $250 AUD off the iPod classic/touch in the form of extended warranty of the iMac. I don't really have the money to spare on the iPod but since this is a one time offer I am going to take it and sell my old 5gen iPod to cover most of the difference. The thing is, I really don't know what to get. I have a relatively large library - 15gigs of music, 3 of podcasts, 10 of TV shows and 400mbs of movies, so all up: 28gbs. I know that will fit on a touch - just. But, I don't need most of the videos on it, only really some of the TV shows. It is mainly for music, but I also like the touch and have WIFI at home so it is useful to me. Basically, whats better? I will pay the extra if it really is worth it, but I don't want to. But it has to be the 32GB touch because otherwise the 16'll be full on first sync - just with music. Also, if you think it is worth it for me, i would consider the 160gig classic. Please advice. One last thing, the classics ive used are all really laggy when in coverflow, is the touch the same?

Hi--
Partly it depends on how you listen to music, and how much you want spend to manage it. For example, I just put my iPod in "shuffle" and let it surprise me. I very rarely go looking for a specific song. So I can set mine up with three playlists:
1. Songs I want synced every time so they're always on the iPod. About 3GB.
2. Songs I most recently imported or purchased. Limited to 5GB.
3. Songs from my library that aren't included in the other two playlists, and haven't been played in the last 45 days or so. Limited to 5GB.
With that amount of storage, I could listen to music for about thirty 24 hour days, or ninety 8 hour days. But, of course, I sync it more often as I buy new music, or add older CDs to it. I don't watch TV shows or movies on mine, so I don't have to worry about that. But even if I did, I think I could get by easily with half the music on it.
Since my work computer is my MacBook Pro, and my iTunes library is on that computer, the truth is that I could sync it every day if I wanted to. I don't though. Once a week or so is often enough for me...
I think the coverflow on the iPod is pretty smooth. It's not as good as on a laptop or desktop computer, but it's not too bad. I actually don't use it that much since it doesn't change when the song changes, but that's personal preference.
But, if you want every song in our collection available on your iPod at all times, then, yeah, even the 32GB one will be a tight fit for you.
charlie

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