These people need to do some research, some of them don't even know that Zune HD has a Touchscreen, WIFI, OLED, HD RADIO, HD OUT, BEST SOUND QUALITY,BEST INTERFACE.
Zune HD hands down, if your a music lover you would not even consider ipods as your option.Also Zune HD's sound quality is much better than ipod touch, its a proven fact, no questions asked, all other brands like cowon, samsung, sony excel in sound quality.Ipods are dead last on sound.
Itunes is a spreadsheet, you wanna browse Music not Spreadsheets.
Itunes sync at the speed of Snail, Zune Software smokes Itunes to the oblivion. My Brother always used to complain how his itunes would take forever to sync his videos. Whereas my Zune software would complete syncing 20 Movies in the same time as it would take him to sync just 1 Movie.
Zune PC Software is well organized and the lay out is an Eye Candy, its more stable and Syncs 10 faster than Itunes and never crashes like the itunes. Best of all Zune Software does the work for you it monitors new stuff for you, so you never have to Add it to the Library every time you have something New.
Watching movies is such an awesome experience on Zune HD screen since its got an OLED display, which means Faster refresh rate and better contrast and greater brightness.
My brother used to have a huge problem watching movies because his Ipod touch would show heavy ghosting and dark spot while watching movies, now he just loves watching movies on his ZuneHD. Zune HD has no Ghosting or Darkspots.
Best of all I watch 4 to 5 Movies, complete movies on a single charge on my Zune HD.
Battery life on Zune HD for Music Playback is 33 hours and 8.5 hours for Videos.
You can also connect your Zune HD to your HDTV to watch HD videos.
Games and Apps are totally are free on ZUne HD, all of them are quality games.
Check this game out if you haven't already. Though i highly suspect you have since your MS Fan
Zune HD : PGR: Ferrari Edition (video game 3D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpgU_I-H-w
Some people say the graphic are on par with psp if not better.
Cons for having an Ipod touch
1 No Radio
2 No HD out
3 Music Quality Sucks monkey balls,
4 No OLED
5. No Tegra Processor
6. No PGR - Project Ghotham Racing
7. No Play Counts
8. No unlimetted Subscription service
9. No wireless Sync
10 No 16GB model for the new third gen ipods, Apple saw competition from Microsoft too much to bare so they decided to axe the 16 gb model.
11 Crappy Battery Life
12 Itunes still syncs slow on PCs and crashes more often.
13 Duplicate Apps that's how Apps store reached the 74000 milestone, no one needs 1000 fart apps
In near future people will be buying OLED Display TVs like crazy. Ipod has those outdated LCD displays that other brands like Samsung , Cowon and Sony are all phasing out.
I applaud you for not thinking ipods is the only game in town. Unlike others, here who don't know Jack about Zune HD.
No bias here, But Microsoft Fans generally tend to be smart more often times than Mac user who easily get Duped in false Marketing schemes. I hate it when people make fun of Zune Marketshare when they don't realize that Apples Mac only make 5% of the computer market share.