When Apple announced their new 5G iPods I felt the urge to rush out and immediately buy one. Then I realized that I haven’t yet filled up my 60GB iPod, I think the screen brightness is perfect and I rarely need the extra battery life … so I really don’t need it.

And since the new ones are also a 5G (fifth generation) iPod, I really couldn’t justify spending the $$$ on a new one. When you factor in the fact that they’d let me download movies and their new games its even harder to justify. Now, I’m not complaining … I’d be really upset if this iPod couldn’t use some of the new features that will come out from Apple in the future.

But there’s one in particular that I DON’T get that I’m kinda upset about. The latest firmware update gives you the ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet in your song/artist/album listings … which is really handy when you have a ton of songs in there. For some reason, mine doesn’t seem to work as fluidly as the new 5G iPods in the store. It also DOESN’T have the full searching capability that the new one does. And that sucks!

And I’m not the only one to think that. There are plenty of others that do too. Like this guy.

So I’ll have to live without it. In the mean time, I can dream about what mine would look like with that feature on it. Probably something like this: