Trust me, Zune doesn't have much up on the iPod.
Prolly the only thing it does have over the iPod a bigger screen, and a half baked wireless song sharing.
I am not an iPod fan, and turned down an iPods for different players, I am jsut saying Zune does not have much riding for it.
I already got an iRiver T10, but in the future planning to get the upcoming iriver clix2 8GB when it comes out, I am sure it will be the smexiest player of its class when it comes out, a ton of features like movies, downloadable flash games.
BTW the original clix 4gb can be had for under 200 USD.
Check these sites out,
http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6...html?tag=glnav
http://anythingbutipod.com/
If ya really don't feel like researching players and think you're just gonna decide between Zune and iPod, I suggest jsut getting the dammn iPod.