Digital photo viewer recommendations

I'm looking for a digital photo viewer to take on trips for reviewing a photo session and/or showing off photos to friends and family. I prefer it to have a large, bright, finely detailed screen, and SD support would be required. Zooming in to see photo detail and relatively fast transfers are also important. Raw support (Nikon D80) is also a plus. Music, Internet connection, very large hard drive, or other non-photo functions are purely secondary and would not be missed.
I'd go for the Epson P-3000 if it weren't a relatively bulky 1 lb. I can get a refurb for $375. I've also considered the Apple iPod Touch 8 GB, but I'd rather swap the non-photo features for, say, a 16-30 GB hard drive for the 8 GB price.
Thoughts? Alternatives?
Thanks!
Neil

>digital photo viewer to take on trips for reviewing a photo session and/or showing off photos to friends and family. I prefer it to have a large, bright, finely detailed screen
i large, bright, finely detailed screen
for me means a laptop;
i for reviewing a photo session
for me again means a laptop, but the huge LCDs on the new D300/D700/D3 Nikons also excel at that, much improved over my D2x and your D80. For
i showing off photos to friends and family
an iPhone or an iPod work very well if you want pocketable. Personally I use a Macbook Pro with external drive as well as a 2G iPhone.
Note that memory cards are cheap enough now to be utilized for field storage of images.
Apple alleges a major new product intro by early fall, so you may want to wait and see what it is.

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