>> I really can't see how to fill even 10 GB with the music I'd like to >> listen. > That's because there isn't that much good music out there. Exactly. >> That being said, we have already had discussions about this, >> and it seems that there are people who actually do have that amount of >> mp3's :) > Some people compulsively load CD's even if there's only one good song > on the > disk. Or those who listen to every variation of jazz music there is. There are a truckload of jazz artists and albums out there as it seems. >> Also, many people use iPod to transfer and store regular data. > Yeah. You can backup your entire boot partition. Yeah. It seems to me that it is just the same old 'too much of everything' consumerism. 40 GB iPod fits nicely with a 5-gallon bottle of Coke :))