After responding to a couple of posts and having it raised in a PM, I felt that this deserved a thread of its own - hopefully, I have overestimated the number of folk who are labouring under this misconception.
If you go to your local Apple Store online, you will be greeted by 3 models - the 8GB, 32GB and 64GB. Per the Wikipedia entry, the 2G Touch was intro'd in September, 2008, offering 8/16/32GB models :
List of iPod models - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In September, 2009, Apple dropped the 16GB Touch, added a 64GB model and installed the internals from the iPhone 3GS into this model and the *new* version of the 32GB Touch. To the best of my knowledge, they did absolutely nothing to the 8GB model, and this is reflected in the Wikipedia entry above. Both the 2G and 3G Touch share the Cirrus Logic DAC which is much maligned here, but you are unlikely to see anything beyond Apple branding in recent teardowns of Apple portables.
The point that I am getting to is that we cant compare the '3G 8GB Touch' with *anything* - it doesnt exist. For all I know, Apple are planning to hit us with a surprise release in December, but I very much doubt it. If you bought an 8GB Touch after September this year, it should be exactly the same as if you had bought one in February, but given some of the wildly different experiences folk report with various iPod models, I wont be betting my house on that.
If you go to your local Apple Store online, you will be greeted by 3 models - the 8GB, 32GB and 64GB. Per the Wikipedia entry, the 2G Touch was intro'd in September, 2008, offering 8/16/32GB models :
List of iPod models - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In September, 2009, Apple dropped the 16GB Touch, added a 64GB model and installed the internals from the iPhone 3GS into this model and the *new* version of the 32GB Touch. To the best of my knowledge, they did absolutely nothing to the 8GB model, and this is reflected in the Wikipedia entry above. Both the 2G and 3G Touch share the Cirrus Logic DAC which is much maligned here, but you are unlikely to see anything beyond Apple branding in recent teardowns of Apple portables.
The point that I am getting to is that we cant compare the '3G 8GB Touch' with *anything* - it doesnt exist. For all I know, Apple are planning to hit us with a surprise release in December, but I very much doubt it. If you bought an 8GB Touch after September this year, it should be exactly the same as if you had bought one in February, but given some of the wildly different experiences folk report with various iPod models, I wont be betting my house on that.
