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Get the smaller one. I have a 1gb one and I can fit alot of somes about it. Dont worry about the space too much.

Oh, and make sure you know how to take care of your battery. Try to keep your battery stored at 40% power if possible, and every 30 days fully discharge your battery.

40% is exactly what it means.

Fully discharge is to use all of the battery.

Since when was charging an iPod with a docking stereo required? Mine came with the charging stuffs, so...[shrugs]

I FINALLY GOT ONE! xd

It's a 1GB blue Shuffle.

I personally would've preferred one with playlists and stuff, but I still think it will work. It was a birthday gift, that I certainly wasn't expecting.

Though, how will I be able to "choose" songs, and monitor my battery life?
Could I do it when it's connected to the computer?
And do laptops have USB ports?
I don't think my computer will be compatible with it. (Since it's not compatible with I-tunes)

-Did much, much research before buying her own iPod-

You need iTunes for all iPods, that's how you get songs onto the iPod. On shuffles, you'll need to do like Xum said, manually skip through songs to find what you like. It's called a shuffle because all it does is shuffle all the songs you have on there. And all laptops I've ever encountered have USB drives. My own laptop has four as a matter of fact... But it's a very new laptop, so....

My friend says I can use Limewire (which is I-tunes friendly) to put songs on my I-pod too. Like, I can download songs from Lime, then transfer the songs to I-tunes somehow. (I'll figure out how to do it when I start downloading songs.)

Thanks Xum and Neko for the help.

( I hate the I-pod headphones. I don't care how "fashionable" they are, I'll use comfier ones, dammet. >:0)