Having owned, and subsequently lost, broken or been robbed of many ipods, I can say with some authority that this was my favourite. The 5th Gen nano does abosultely everything you could want; it has a large screen, decent capacity, video playback, clever use of album artwork, genius and, most importantly, the click-wheel!

After losing this ipod I bought the newest generation nano, which was tiny and had no clickwheel. The functionability and, i believe, aesthetics of this simply did not match to my beloved 5th gen version.

Undoubtedly, now that there are newer nanos out there, this ipod's price will have gone down significantly. Thus, I say, now is the time to buy!

The only slight criticism I had of my nano 5th gen was its colour. I ordered online my 'black' nano. In fact it came out as grey, which was fairly frustrating. However, of course, there are many other colours available, therefore, this should not dissuade you from the purchase.

Of course, if you are a serious musician, a nano is not what you'd want, purely because of capacity. Moreover, storing films is a problem and, frankly watching them on a 'nano', as expected, is not ideal.