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| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $189.99
You Save: $59.01 (24%)
New (21) Used (23) Refurbished (6) from $179.99
Rating:  850 reviews
Sales Rank: 291
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 80 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MB147LL/A
Model: MB147LL/A
UPC: 885909176656
EAN: 0123456789012
ASIN: B000JLKIHA
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Apple 160 it is big on size but not on performance November 7, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I like many others decided that I wanted to get the 160 because I had filled up the 60 I had and wanted the convenience of being able to have all of my music in one place. I like the size of the 160 but it is very slow to get started and especially slow on transition between menus. If I had a chance to do it again, I think I would have stuck with the 60 and the inconvenience of choosing songs to put on it rather than deal with the slow 160 just my opinion.
 Wait for 6 - 8 Months Then Buy November 7, 2007
49 out of 53 found this review helpful
Be careful. I returned three of the silver 160 GB iPod classics to the Apple store for the same apparent defect. All three of the iPods I took home seized up when I began to put large amounts of music on it. The problem happened when I hit about 10 GB of music. The iPod would go to the boot up screen and freeze. It would then make this loud clicking noise while the screen light turned on and off. It continued doing this until the battery ran out of power. When I took the last one back and demanded a refund the Apple store clerk suggested that it was a faulty USB port on my lousy Windows based PC. The problem is that one of my three iPods seized up on my work laptop and the others did it on my home PC. The final clincher was when the third one seized up and I read on the Apple website similar problems from other users. I believe Apple turned out this product too soon and either there are a high percentage that are very defective or there is an inherant design flaw in the system. I love my 60 GB iPod but it is nearly full and it has never had a problem. I will probably wait for 6 to 8 months and give Apple the chance to fix the problem before trying again. I recommend if you have problems demanding a refund from Apple and returning their poorly designed product to force them to address the issues.
Read the fine print first, BUYER BEWARE!!!!! November 6, 2007
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had to return this product because my computer would not support it. This is something they DO NOT tell you, unless you read the fine, fine, fine print. BEWARE! You CANNOT USE this I-pod with Windows 2000, and I'm defintely not willing to shell out more money to upgrade my computer just for the I-pod.... Be forewarned. You will have to return it, if your computer is not Windows XP Professional or Vista (geek speech for the latest version)...
 My iPod Classic is Awesome! November 6, 2007
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
I read through most of the reviews before purchasing my silver iPod Classic. Needless to say, it made me very nervous about buying one. But due to my previous experience with an iPod, I went on ahead and ordered it, and I am glad I did. I had an iPod Nano and loved it, but quickly ran out of hard drive space. I got another mp3 player, but I missed the ease of use of my iPod.
I love my new iPod Classic. It has worked perfectly since I bought it and has never lockup up my desktop. The weight of it is a big difference from my previous iPod, but I have gotten used to it.
iCrock - the iPod NOT November 6, 2007
35 out of 42 found this review helpful
The only possible saving grace about the new iPod Classic is that it does have the potential for a firmware upgrade to fix at least some of the more glaring problems. I think the other reviews have spoken to the issues well but I did want to chime in on the audiobook issue since that is to me one of the most bizarre aspects of this non-product.
I have used every version of iPod from the first generation on (not nanos or whatever just iPods) and this one has definitely broken audiobook organization. On every previous model I simply went to "artists" and selected the name of the author and then had a nice list of the books (using the "album" attribute for book title) and then I could select the part of the book that I wanted to dive into which I could title using the song title attribute. I never ever found the straight audiobook listing particularly useful.
Now I've got to use the amusing "search" mechanism or spend a bunch of time screwing around with playlists to try and put some order in the chaos that some misguided engineers have introduced.
Playlists are extra work that wasn't needed with the prior User Interface and only a partial measure at best since one is still looking at a list of book parts rather than a list of books - obviously playlists were designed for a different purpose than trying to rescue a misbegotten UI design.
The search is actually broken. For example I search for Asimov and the search results report every single one of the audiobook files that I have (500+) not just the ones with "Asimov" as a value of some attribute.
I can not for the life of me understand how the current audiobook category behavior ever got signed off on by QC and usability reviews. The iPod Classic as it stands now is almost exclusively a music box rather than what I used to have which was a library of audiobooks. I do have music on my iPod but I rarely ever listen to it; rather, I spend hours each evening and in the early hours listening to various books some in [...] format some that I've converted myself from CD or cassettes and so on.
This is without a doubt the most completely non-user-engineered downgrade to an otherwise sterling product line that I've ever seen!
If you need a stylish 80GB or 160GB external hard drive this may be the product for you.
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