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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:
 Terrible Tech Support; a waste of $$$$ September 23, 2007
41 out of 60 found this review helpful
Let me start by admitting this is my 4th iPod, and I didn't have any problems with the previous 3 except the simple truth my media files exceeded my storage capacity, so...160GB seemed like a plausible solution. I still own the previous gen (5.5) 80GB iPod video and it works perfectly fine. This 160GB Classic is a nightmare and Apple's lack of product support is shear lunacy. I have written and phoned ad nauseum without any resolution, and I paid an extra $60 for the AppleCare Protection Plan above & beyond the $350 cost for the Ipod itself. It crashes daily and needs to be "restored" which can take 6-8 hours to erase, reformat and restore all the music & media files. I have the most current version of iTunes as well as the most current version of iPod software. I shipped the iPod back to Apple, they kept it for a week and then sent it back to me with a letter stating they couldn't find anything wrong with it.
I own a 4GB Apple iPod Nano too, and it works perfectly fine...but not this 160GB Classic! It doesn't sync with iTunes, it needs to be restored daily, it loses the media and crashes repeatedly...it's essentially useless. After repeated letters and phone calls to Apple, I'm basically stuck with a $350 piece of useless hardware.
 lots of bugs, dissapointed September 23, 2007
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
I had a 5.5 gen IPOD before but decided to get Classic this week since it has larger storage and is thiner. I got it Friday, but I have been disappointed with the issues I encountered.
1) The new IPOD already crashed once and I have to reboot it. I never rebooted my previous IPOD 5.5.
2) Sometimes I connect the IPOD with computer, the IPOD didn't show
the connected sign. Replug the cable didn't help and I have to reboot
the IPOD to make it connected.
3) I upgraded Itunes to 7.4.2 so that I can use this IPOD. The iTunes
told me there is a IPOD software version 1.0.1 available which I expect
they have some patches. But the upgrade failed because of some "1415"
error.
I believe all of those issues will get fixed in the following few months.
But I'm still disappointed, they should have done more testing before
putting it on market.
2 stars for what they did. I'll keep this ipod for 1 more week and will
return it if I still have problems with it.
 Won't Work on Mac OS X 10.3.9 September 23, 2007
17 out of 26 found this review helpful
The iPod Classic does not work with Mac OS X 10.3.9. If you are running 10.3.9, you have to put up the money for 10.4 to be able to use the iPod. Seeing as how 10.5 is on the way, you get to either wait or buy something soon to be outdated, dropping a lot of extra money either way.
Great Battery Life- Poorer Sound Quality Then The 5G iPod September 23, 2007
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
I picked one of these up about a week ago. Battery Life is DOUBLE what my 5G 60 GB unit has. Unfortunately in a side by side comparison sound quality has degraded significantly compared to my wonderful 2 year old fifth generation unit. I did some research and found out Apple has completely redesigned the Logic Board and is no longer using the old Wolfson Microelectronics chip. The new iPod has a dynamically compressed, tinny, metallic sound that can even be heard thru the cheap earphones provided. There is almost ZERO 3D sense of depth and imaging. The sound is so horrible compared to 5G that you can tell the difference thru every headphone tested except for Bose which has almost zero high frequency response. If someone is new to iPod and never owned a fifth generation audiophile quality unit they will probably not have a problem with the sound though.
When I first got the unit it had firmware 1.00 installed and I experienced extremely sluggish menu response. I updated to 1.01 and response is now much quicker though still not as fast as my 2 year old iPod.
Update: The latest firmware 1.03 solves the sluggish menu response problem pretty well. Too bad nothing has been done about the sound quality.
Avoid if you have an older computer! September 23, 2007
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
If you have an older PC or Mac, avoid the iPod Classic and go for a previous generation of iPod.
The new iPod Classics are serious CPU hogs when they sync with iTunes. On my 1.8ghz iMac G5, for example, syncing my iPod Classic 160gb takes 7 minutes, even when there is nothing new to sync. Throughout that time, my CPU is over 95%, according to Activity Monitor. This is in stark contrast to syncing my other iPods (gen5.5, gen4), where syncing never uses more than 30% of the CPU.
Windows users report similar behavior (Google for "ipod classic sync crash").
So unless you have an Intel-based Mac (or similar post-2006 PC), stick with the earlier iPods.
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