A lession learned When my 6GB iPod mini broke, i thought to myself that this was my excuse to upgrade to the latest and greatest iPod (160 GB). My old one worked great, and all my friends got either the 30GB or 80GB Gen 5.5 iPods and loved them as well. So, I figured it was a pretty safe purchase since Apple had established the iPod as a stable/ dependable product...
Well, i get the 160GB ipod in the mail(from Apple's website) and hook it up to my computer (XP SP2) and attempt to sync it and iTune...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/03/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (17 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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iPod Classic Review The iPod Classic is a mobile music player. The objective of the iPod is to offer reasonable sound and video at a reasonable price. That said, Apple has taken steps to make as many features available as possible while still keeping the price-point low. Many negative reviews are from techs who look at the new iPod Classic and see an inferior audio chip and a few other things compared to previous versions. This is true, but ask how many of the techs actually used the chips to the fullest capacity a...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by Nicolaus F. Usry "Cole" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Nicolaus F. Usry "Cole" | | Review Date: | 10/10/2007 | | User Location: | Keswick Va. 22947 | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (12 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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The review I wish I would have read! My review will be along the lines of the sort I was looking to see as I sat on the fence about investing in a new Ipod.
Feeling claustrophobic with my 2GB Ipod Nano, I've wanted to go bigger for a long time. My Nano is great and has served me well at work and around the house, but with over 70GB worth of music on my PC and a heavy rotation of talk radio podcasts, I wanted to have it all in the palm of my hand. As a teen in the early 90's I fondly wished that someday in the future I ...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by M. Gray can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | M. Gray | | Review Date: | 12/28/2007 | | User Location: | California | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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The New Firmware seems to have ironed out A LOT of the bugs others have talked about! **Before you read some of the negative reviews, please consider this was BEFORE the new firmware update 1.0.3 came out so unfortunately they had unresponsive clickwheels, itunes messing up etc. Also some people simply did NOT upgrade their firmware for whatever reason but A LOT of those problems have been fixed with the new firmware so UPGRADE YOUR FIRMWARE AS SOON AS YOU GET YOUR IPOD! It will make a BIG difference!**
Ok, on to the review..I just got my 80 gb ipod classic recently ...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by Jersey Girl can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Jersey Girl | | Review Date: | 12/08/2007 | | User Location: | NJ, USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
97% (44 of 45) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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major problems with thumbwheel I strongly urge anyone considering this product to do a test-drive first. Apple has redesigned the thumbwheel and it just doesn't work properly. Its virtually impossible to stop on the desired album or track. Also, the album art is a disaster - images don't load timely and as they do, it causes the flow to freeze and then release 10 albums away from where you were trying to get to. The Nano doesn't have this delay issue, so it must be related to the hard-drive slower access times. But both ...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by Gary C. Cosby "Gary" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Gary C. Cosby "Gary" | | Review Date: | 09/23/2007 | | User Location: | San Francisco | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
95% (23 of 24) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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a user's review I don't know how many people actually have this and wrote the review but at least I have it. Here are my takes on it:
Good things about this device:
1. its new interface looks much better than the old generation ones. fonts are sharper, coverflow search is hip, and there are some subtle differences people will appreciate. For example, when you play iPod after certain seconds the screen goes black and it will serve as a watch. it tells you what time it is. it may not loo...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by S. Lee can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | S. Lee | | Review Date: | 09/08/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (48 of 51) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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User interface is slow! After trying several units at different Apple stores, all of the new iPod Classics suffer from a slow interface. Apple added Cover Flow and additional graphics but apparently underpowered the device and menu items have a noticable delay, Cover Flow is slow to refresh and even the clickwheel navigation is sluggish. These problems are not shared by the new Nano, which operates beautifully. I wanted to buy the classic, but now will go with either a Nano or a Touch.
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by Abe "Photo Dude" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Abe "Photo Dude" | | Review Date: | 09/12/2007 | | User Location: | San Francisco Bay Area, CA Uni | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (25 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Such a disappointment You can read on for a detailed review. In summary, if my music collection wasn't larger than the iPod this was replacing, I would put the iPod classic on the shelf (or maybe ebay it) and run the old one.
This iPod is the first apple iPod product I have felt was just an afterthought. I have owned the 1G shuffle, the 2G 4GB Nano, and a 4G 20GB iPod color (wife also has a 5G 30GB iPod Video). I absolutely loved all of them. All felt like polished products.
The iPod Cla...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by T. Hosford can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | T. Hosford | | Review Date: | 10/01/2007 | | User Location: | Huntington Beach | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (186 of 201) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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So, tell me why this isn't five stars again? I'm just not seeing the flaws reported here or elsewhere.
I have 160Gb -- effectively 154Gb but I'm okay with that -- and I can watch videos, listen to music, see my photo albums, all without much incident. The iTunes interface isn't perfect but you know what? It syncs everything I check or uncheck, and it's very easy to get the iPod to just work right out of the box. My anecdote cancels out yours.
Coverflow. I love it. Do I like having to give my credit card over ...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/16/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (10 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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It all depends on your level of expectations.. My review is gonna be a little long but I hope it brings some light to people who don't know whether to buy or not this product.
The classic is nothing more than an update to the 5th gen ipod. Like ANY update in the world, it adds some new features, cuts others and changes others. Plain and simple. I don't consider it fair to judge it a bad device just because you had the expectation that the classic was gonna reinvent the wheel and solve all world problems.
In my opini...
[Apple MB147LL/A 80 GB iPod classic Black - Black Black review by Francis A. Castellanos can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Francis A. Castellanos | | Review Date: | 10/22/2007 | | User Location: | Dominican Rep. | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (18 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful |