I suspect the saving offered is quite poor if the thing has been used/abused, shipped back to Apple, disassembled, reassembled -- whatever. The main consideration must be battery life and I wouldn't touch it unless there was some undertaking that you can expect the normal 18 months or so until you have ship it back to Apple and pay them serious money to disassemble, reassemble etc etc.
Right now for around the same money or less you could buy a brand new compact Sony MP3 Player with more memory, much better intervals between recharging and, reportedly, better sound. You'd also sidestep the nonsensensical iTunes software that so restricts your use of an Apple player. If you must have multimedia and wireless, at least look at models from Cowon, Creative Samsung etc.
Hey guys, I was just wondering about when the Apple Ipod Touch 2G refurbished (primarily the 8GB) would pop up on the Apple web site, any suggestions? This is because I would like to have one for either for Christmas or my b-day which is in February, and I know what refurb products are like, since they are usually in great condition and a lower price.
Andres_A
p.s. Here is the 1G iPod Touch refurb on the apple site right now:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipod/ipod_touch
Also, for some really weird reason, my username is Andres_A, not Isomerset....maybe I should make a new account just in case...

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