I had an iRiver h340 and LOVED it, especially after rockboxing it. Eventually its battery started to go, and the iPod Touch was just too damn sexy. I use it for music (often through a cassette adapter in the car) and video. GORGEOUS video playback. Interface is beautiful. When my Sprint cell phone plan runs out in April I'll probably switch over to an iPhone.
It should be noted, you CAN CAN CAN drag-and-drop media to and from an iPod. You have to do it in iTunes still, but you can disable the syncing business and "manually manage" your media. And then you can drag and drop into the iTunes icon for your iPod right from the Finder. (Err.. probably Windows Explorer too, but luckily I wouldn't know.) There are also applications for the iPod Touch/iPhone that make it behave like a usb drive, and provide rudimentary "viewer" applications for common file types--pdf, images, Office docs, etc.
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