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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:
 Looks Good, But Lost Some of 5th Gens Features October 17, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Eventhough it may look pretty, if you plan on watching videos not from itunes then you will notice an extra set of black bars for 16:9 movies, a very dark set halfway to the picture, and another lighter set the other halfway, which changes in brightness with the picture. My 5th gen doesn't do this. Also when you load video into the TV Show section and it's not from itunes then it will mess up the order of all the other TV Shows, even the one's from itunes. If you really don't need 160GB, and you plan on watching videos not from itunes, then I suggest the 5th gen model for the 80GB, which you might be able to pick up at a cheap price with the new models. The only "improvements" would be the album covers that are now displayed throughout the menus, that I feel isn't worth the change.
 SIMPLY LOVE IT! October 16, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I received my Ipod Classic 80GB yesterday and I love it! I upgraded my 4th generation 20GB Ipod and love the simplicity and oustanding video that the Ipod Classic delivers. I contemplated buying the Ipod Touch, but was afraid that I would bang it up taking it to the gym and everyday use and $400.00 is a little too steep to shell out for an Ipod with only 16GB although the features are impressive. Right out of the box, the Ipod Classic is very user friendly in syncing with Itunes which I love.
Not having a video Ipod before, I am very impressed and glad that I waited for the 6th generation Ipod.
 Great Concept... Seriously Flawed October 15, 2007
463 out of 536 found this review helpful
Ok. I have not read any other comments on this product on the Amazon webpage because I want it be about my experience and not influenced by anybody else's experience. I'll go back and read the other reviews after I post this and see where I fit in.
I purchased my 160GB iPod Classic 2 weeks ago because I was getting very limited on my previous 60G iPod (my 4th iPod) and I thought the extra 100 Gigs of space would last me for the next years with no problems. That aspect of the product has proved to be true.
That's when the problems began.
First, after uploading my entire 60 Gigs of songs and videos (6 hours to do that) the menus were so sluggish they were unusable.
The coverflow view provided the album cover for every artist on every album as a different album cover so it literally took 5 minutes to scroll from the first album to the last which made this "selling point" totally unusable. If the coverflow view just provided a view of each album cover by the name of the album, like I do when I view CD's on my bookshelf I would be happy, but what they have done makes no sense at all. After installing the 1.0.2 firmware update things improved slightly because they removed artists from compilation albums from the sort order and moved them to the end of the list, but seriously, nobody at Apple seems to have even looked at how someone picks up a CD from a bookshelf... by the single CD case which is a single title, not arranged by who sang each track on each CD!
OK, we'll get around that coverflow problem by just ignoring it and not using it. Check.
So, I put the thing in the dock on my PC. Hours later after the first synch all is good. But then, each successive time when you put it in the dock you get into a repeating connected, synching, connected, synching, connected, syching mode, and you cannot stop it. iTunes says synching once, but then if you try to eject the thing you can't. iTunes locks up for minutes at a time.
What do I do next? I go to the Apple Support discussions. I realize that there are many, many comments about this. Hmm! So I post some questions and I make a point of saying I have bought 4 other iPods and none of them do this. They all get deleted from the discussion groups.
Then I start monitoring the discussion groups by downloading the entire website several times a day and I realize that Apple is literally deleting many, many posts about these same problems.
The message you get from them is that you are violating their guidelines which I guess means that if you complain that your product flat out doesn't work you aren't allowed on the "support group".
Then if you start to examine the discussion groups and realize that Apple has intentionally disabled many of the video functions of the previous iPod models which breaks EVERY non-Apple video device out there you have to start wondering if Apple has not become the Anti-Apple!
What ever happened to "Think Different"?
Seriously, this is the most flawed product Apple has ever produced and as a fifth time Apple iPod buyer I have to say it's the last iPod I will ever own. Apple seems to be much worse than any other company now that they have a monopoly on MP3 players.
My vote is to buy anything BUT Apple from no on because they just screwed me, and thousands of other people, over on this iPod Classic.
no problems here October 14, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just got an 80 gb classic and it's quite nice, i can't say i have any of the complaints many have been having. The click wheel isn't as sensitive but i actually like that fact,i'm not accidentally clicking things cuz the wheel is so sensitive. I previously had a 1g 2gb nano and it's great but just didn't hold enough of my music collection,the 80gb classic is beautifull and holds all my music with plenty of room for more. I'd read all the reviews and was a little worried but went for it anyway because the price was just too good for 80 gb and i'm not sorry i bought it at all.
bad reviews are misleading October 14, 2007
94 out of 106 found this review helpful
I read the bad reviews here and they are all very particular and specific and odd (i.e., the problems these people are having will probably never happen to you). This version of the iPod is probably going to be the last in its line before they switch over completely to the iPod Touch version. But when I was trying to figure out which one to go with RIGHT NOW, the Touch is 400 freakin' dollars and it only has 16 GB on it! That's nothing as far as I'm concerned - maybe I'm spoiled but I like putting all sorts of things on my iPod besides my entire record collection which is around 35 GB right off the bat. The iPod "Classic" is not perfect or ideal (starting with its stupid name)- the ideal would be an iTouch with 80 GB or higher - but its pretty sweet. The games on it work really well once you get used to the wheel, as far as I know there are no games on the iTouch. The video looks really good on the iPod Classic too. As far as the meat is concerned which is the music, the cover flow works fine - all that stuff about it being too sluggish is b.s. - the sound quality is really good and it comes with about 20 preset EQ settings which are nice. Sync with iTunes is really easy and almost fun and in short its just really simple to use and does the job. My advice is to get this one and wait for Apple to release an iTouch with more GB later, which might take awhile but I just have a hard time paying 400 dollars for 16 gb just so I can move an album cover across the screen with my finger. p.s. yeah, the itouch has the wi-fi internet capability but I have trouble digesting what I read about it, like no java - that's a big setback, most of my favorite websites rely on that -otherwise I'm just looking at an incredibly shrunken version of a website and that doesn't really do much for me.
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