nah i was just kidding about that being a big question.
i do like the pictures of the black, but then again i havnt seen any real pictures of the silver...
My mini does just fine as long as I use an arm band. My 2G 20GB and 3G 40GB did not like when I clipped it to my shorts for running. After the memory buffer was used up, the unit would freeze since it detected motion and would not spin up the HD. Of course the 2G and the 3G were too big, imo, for running. Although the classics are thinner and lighter than previous models, it would be a beast on your arm for running. Aha - that is where getting a refurb of the previous Nano comes in. Can you really have too many iPods? Steve doesn't think so.... 😛
im just laughing about saying the classic isn't portable lol. but yeah I agree with the running. thats why I have a shuffle. instead of the armband or whatever for even a nano, I just clip it either to the sleeve of my shirt or the waistband on my pants 🙂 (definitely recommend one if you work out alot, it's great and really cheap)
on a side note, the hard drive would be fine because the iPod caches the data to ram so the hard drive doesn't spin up that much.