I own a few iPods and a laptop and find myself traveling a lot around California. For everyday use, I normally use a pair of iPod earbuds, which I have to say aren’t that great, but I can get by with them or I use a pair of Sony MDR-EX71SL in white. The Sony earbuds sound much better than the iPod earbuds and can be picked up online for around $30. Those are my everyday headphones due to the fact that they’re small and easy to carry around so it makes it much more convenient. In any case, almost any set of over the ear headphones sound better than some of the best earbuds but for the price and the quality of the Sennheiser HD-202, it’s a definite recommendation.

The iPod Shuffle was purchased in January after it was released at Macworld. The nice thing about the unit is I can carry it everywhere I go. I have had other iPods in the past and they aren’t too big to carry around but it would never be an everyday item. With the shuffle I can always keep a small collection of music with me at all times. Like the other iPods, this unit grabs scratches as well. I don’t care too much about the scratches so I do not have a case for it. My Nano on the other hand, could have used a case.