I am not a big fan of the apple i-pod because if the music you d/l is copywritten then you need to buy it from i-tunes which is $1 a song. If you're just using it for the gym you can get away with buying an mp3 player for a bit less. I went with Samsung.... I bought 2. The 1st one from Walmart for $70 and the 2nd one refurbished, same model for $30 on ebay. They both work great, charge by plugging into my computer and I use limewire to D/L the songs and then just transfer them to the mp3 player.