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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:
 Classic Ipod is really buggy. October 18, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have had this Ipod classic 160gb for roughly a month and although it looks pretty and has massive storage space I have had problems with it. The following problems are not isolated, infact there are many owners experiencing the same problems and Apple doesn't know whats wrong.
First, the new coverflow feature, which works just like itunes and lets you flip through your albums, has a lag time for the covers to show. This causes the ipod to cease up much like a overloaded computer in need of ram.
Secondly, when viewing a video/movie and you're scanning fwd or rev. the software gets stuck and fwds/rew through the whole thing. The only way to stop this is to reboot the ipod.
Thirdly, the T.V. Out option is disabled on these new ipods. I actually used the option frequently on my 5th gen ipod but now I don't have a choice. Its a "locked" feature.
I was really excited about my new ipod and wanted to really give it a chance before speaking negativley about it but it proved to be too big of a problem for me. I contacted Apple about the issues but they are not acknowledging any problems yet. So after 28 days am returning it to Amazon. Even though I haven't given up on Apple, I strongly suggest for consumers to wait for the revision of this ipod classic. :)
iPod 160 review October 18, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I expected it better. I have already two of 60 Gb and one of 80 Gb. A first negative comment, it does not work with iPOD2iPOD and it is not possible to transfer the content of the 80 Gb to the new one. A second one I have the feeling that the battery lasts less than the 80 Gb.
They could have include FM radio and Recording. On the other side, the positive thing, is the big disk space, nothing else.
Nice iPod, but.... October 18, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I always desired this music (and video!)player. When I saw the new release with 80 GB (a lot of memory) instead of 30 GB I purchased it inmediately because All my music from CDs and mp3, and the videos can be stored in this device. Now I'm enjoing it and I like it. Good for Apple.
Unfortunately, it's something wrong: In release 5.5 the video output from the iPod to a TV was a simple cable connected in the headphone jack, and now, with the new version I have to PURCHASE a dock station to connect the iPod to the TV. and it's not only the cost of the device, but the fact you have to carry this dock st. to another place if you want to show your videos to your family or friends. With iPod 5.5 you only use a simple cable you'll carry in your pocket. Bad for Apple in this fact.
 Another amazing version of the iPod! October 17, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this iPod to replace my 20GB 4th generation iPod. I was so amazed when it arrived and was actually slightly smaller despite the 8x larger capacity! I love the new menu designs and cover flow. This is my first ipod with video capability and I love the way movies and music videos look on it.
My one complaint is that Apple has disabled the ability to turn on TV out to play iPod videos on a TV. And I didn't find this out until AFTER I had bought a cord specifically for this purpose.
Sufficient disc space, iTunes is poor October 17, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded from the "old" 80 Gbyte iPOD to the new Classic 160 Gbyte iPOD (my old one couldn't hold all of my ripped CDs). Before I synced the new iPOD, I upgraded iTunes from version 6.9.something to the latest ones. In this process, a *large* fraction of the cover art that I had spent some 100 hours to scan and insert into iTunes, mysteriously disappeared. That is, they disappeared from iTunes, but if I watch the same Mp3 files in Windows Media Player, the cover art is still there.
At this time, I decided to download cover art from the iTunes Store. This recreated most of the cover art (but in a lower quality than I had used). Still, the cover art for nearly all of my Van Morrison records were missing, and half of those of my Paul Simon records + some more. As neither Van Morrison nor Paul Simon are obscure artists, I find this rather annoying.
Being systematic, I use family name before first name in my artist information, thus "Morrison, Van". However, I then found that if I change the artist name to "Van Morrison", iTunes finds some of the cover art. For some reason, it inserts the cover art of some "Darren Morrison" on the Greatest Hits album of Van Morrison. This only serves to confirm my impression of iTunes.
Another problem: I have several albums named "Anthology" (e.g. by Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles). iTunes screws up this completely: when I scroll through the Album list on my iPOD, the software has *merged* all files named "Anthology", so when I go in on the album, the songs of Marvin Gaye and those of the Miracles both show up. The same is the case in iTunes. Another problem on the iPOD: the album cover of "Anthology" and that of "The Anthology" (Bobby 'Blues' Bland) are repeated some 40-50 times, apparently for no reason at all.
iTunes holds a lot of useful information about albums that I rip; this information is automatically put into the fields of the MP3 file. Overall -- having ripped some 1000 CDs -- my impression is that there are inaccuracies and/or gross errors in at least 10% of this information.
In summary: I'm not very impressed with iTunes; these are irritating glitches. (Of course, Windows Media Player has its own flaws...).
Ok. So my review so far has dealt with iTunes. I'm quite happy with the iPOD itself. I haven't had time yet to check if it handles playlists better than my old iPOD. (I have carefully created my own playlists in a previous version of iTunes, where obviously also the sequence of songs were important). When I imported the playlists to my previous iPOD, the song sequence was screwed up on the iPOD.
In summary: a mixed impression of the iPOD + iTunes.
Finally: another stupidity with iTunes. A few years ago, I bought an extended version of Quicktimes because i wanted to be able to convert Quicktimes movies to the Microsoft format. I then updated iTunes on my machine. And without notifying me, a new version of Quicktimess was also installed, overwriting the one I had paid for.
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