"You can play mp3s." Good. As long as I don't have to install any Apple software to get the MP3s onto the iPod (which I assume I wouldn't, if it's just a Firewire harddrive), it sounds like it would be very cool. (I agree with whoever said Quicktime is the spawn of Satan. You can't get rid of it once you install it. Then you end up getting weird "qttask.exe" errors ever after. Based on that, I'm avoiding Apple software like the plague.)