get a media center pocket pc. you can do anything you want with those, like a small laptop basically. yeah u have to use SD/CF cards, but hey you can get online, play games, email, MP3, movies, whatever. i use mine to watch movies on when i go on long trips. if you rip a dvd and compress it to the PDA screen you can fit about 3 full length movies on a 512mb card. i guess if you have a whole crap load of stuff it would be annoying to figure out which cards had what on em...but i think there are 4gb SDs out there now so if you have less than that it would be fine. just depends on what you use it for, most people probly dont like PDAs just because they are semi-large, but the video ipod is bigger than the one i carry... so whatever you like better. i have an MP3 player along with my PDA because i screwed up my headphone port and so far am scared to solder a new one on it, tried to send to HP and got fudged over by their support...blah blah long story.