I'm inches away from getting the XM MicroMemo iPod nano Voice Recorder. It just looks so easy.

Re: modern computer sound
A year ago in 2008, when I got the gaming computer, the tech said there was no point any longer in getting a separate sound card, unless you went over $100, and that the on-board sound was by then, just as good as mid-range sound blasters of 2004. BUT, I've run into salesmen who were dead-wrong before.

I'm a bit disappointed that Audacity doesn't seem to tell me much about what the gaming comp's on-board sound is capable of. It just happily tells me that it will interpolate the missing data if I try to record at frequencies above what the system can handle. Is there any point in recording in 32 bit float if, in reality, I may only be sampling at 24 bits?