[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Mine's fine... so far.
But you have to realize that the Zune and the larger capacity iPods (30GB & 60GB) have internal hard drives which are subject to shock.
Unlike flash based media devices (iPod 4GB Nano, shuffle, etc..) which don't care about shock cause it has no moving parts inside.
(ie: A friend of mine dropped and ran over her flash memory based iPod Nano with a go-kart while racing, and it still works fine. Try that with any hard-drive based media player and your results won't be so nice.)

As much as I hated my photo iPod, I do have to give it some respect in the fact that the thing was an absolute tank. I treated it like crap, dropping it, leaving it in my backpack, pockets with other things in them, etc and besides a few scratches on the chrome it stayed completely intact. I understand the theory about moving parts vs no moving parts, but I just wanted to throw that out there.