Possible 80G iPod?

Loose-lipped Toshiba has made another new announcement that, without naming Apple, is almost certain to refer to Toshiba's relationship with the Cupertino company. According to the announcement, they will begin shipping 1.8" drives (the form factor currently used in the iPod) in a new capacity of 80GB in 3rd quarter 2005.

Now that's a lot of MP3s. I have a pretty decent music collection myself, but have still not maxed out my 40GB iPod, so I can't quite wrap my head around having an iPod with equal capacity to my laptop – it seems like overkill. I have a pretty decent photo collection as well, but not 20-40GB worth, so even an 80GB iPod photo would seem excessive. Yes,
power users know we can use iPod as an external disk drive as well, but I doubt the average consumer will be using the device that way, either.

So why 80GB, other than 'bigger is always better'? Is there yet *another* function beyond audio and photo storage that Apple has in mind? Steve Jobs has said video is not 'it'... maybe he's bluffing? What do you think? Would you use all of the capacity of an 80GB iPod? Would the average consumer want 80GB worth of MP3 storage (time to concede I'm not the average consumer – shhh! :))?