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| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
Buy New: £135.50
New (24) Used (7) from £126.88
Rating:  119 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 24.4 x 40.9
MPN: MB147ZO/A
Model: MB147ZO/A
UPC: 885909199075
EAN: 0885909199075
ASIN: B000UVS20Y
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed Dispatch within 24 Hour (Monday- Friday) via RM Special Delivery once payment is cleared by amazon. One Year manufacturer Warranty.
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| Features:
| • | 2.5" LCD Display | | • | 30Hrs Audio & 5Hrs Video Playback | | • | MP3, WAV & AIFF Audio Playback | | • | MPEG-4 Video Playback | | • | 140g Weight |
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Product Description
The possibilities are endless with the sixth generation of the Apple?s legendary iPod range, the iPod classic. Following on from the fifth generation iPod, the iPod classic has all the same functions as its predecessor, but with an improved, easier-to-use interface. In keeping with the iPod tradition, the iPod classic has both audio and video functions, a very large storage capacity and unprecedented battery life, all packed into a stylish, 100% metal case. Its 80 GB memory holds up to 20,000 music tracks and is the ideal solution for saving your favourite digital entertainment applications. Plus, it delivers great sound quality and has a 2.5? LCD screen for your listening and viewing pleasure. The interface now features the Cover Flow function, which displays all the album covers of each music track, making it very easy to flip through your entire library. Of course, the iPod classic can also play Podcasts, audio books and video games (available for download from the iTunes Store).Finally, the slimline and lightweight iPod classic has an unbelievable 30 hours of battery life when fully charged (in music mode)!The iPod classic is sure to sweep you off your feet!
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 Wonderful! September 13, 2007
Griesmayer (Wien, Österreich)
163 out of 181 found this review helpful
I am at a loss of words. This is truly the best bang for your buck from the entire iPod range.
80GB for 159? Apple must be kidding us! The 30GB video iPod (5th generation) was that "costly" just a month ago! And now, they offer a device with 3x the storage capacity and overall just better:
So the predecessor was faulty and these were the negative feedback it received:
-battery life too short
-too little storage
-screen isn't bright and vivid enough
-the display menu is boring compared to the iPhone
-it's fat!
-too costly!!!
-(and most of all) the surface scratches way too easily!
Apple fixed ALL of that through the release of the iPod Classic:
-24h battery life (5h for video)
-storage now extended to 80 or 160 GB
-screen now brighter and clearer
-iPhone's unique Coverflow is adapted to the new iPod Classic, as well as the "album cover art drift" and search function
-it's thinner now!
-much cheaper for what you get!
-and last but certainly not least: the aluminium finish is ideal to make your iPod immune to scratches!
One important feature is the fact that with 80GB, you can make backups of all your personal data on your Pc, as well as upload almost all of the songs, photos and videos you possess without having to think about GB-shortage.
The iPod nano and iPod touch are also quite seductive, but in the end, it's the Giga Bytes that count. And the fact that you get 80GB for 159, while you have to pay 269 for only 16GB is insane!
So let me get this straight: you pay EXTRA money AND receive less GBs? And what for? Touch-screen and Wifi? Oh please. It'll turn out to be a huge ripoff after you've gotten used to the cool features.
So I say - stick with the classic and you won't regret it!
It's an MP3 player October 24, 2007
M. C. Cresswell
106 out of 117 found this review helpful
Having put off buying an iPod for nearly 4 years, and being one of its most vocal opponents, I finally succumbed and picked this model up. Reasons were numerous and not that relevant to a review, so here goes the highs and lows IMHO.
The iPod is handsome, it works well and it has a great user interface. A lot of thought has been put into making it extremely easy to use and there are some very sweet and fluffy (and utterly useless) features like Cover Flow and the inbuilt games which test your knowledge of your own music collection. My only problem with it is that since the clickwheel operates both volume control and music selection, you can't do both at the same time. No biggy but occasionally annoying.
The battery has been enhanced beyond description, and with relatively heavy use I'm currently charging it once a week.
The screen definition is very impressive for album art, photos and videos.
Ultimately of course it's all about the music, and the sound pumped out by those tacky white plastic phones that everyone hates is more than adequate. I find it a bit lacking in brightness compared with other players, but perhaps it's the headphones. The bass is meaty, while mid-tones are rich. It's a little on the quiet side but that's probably not a bad thing.
One of the major things putting me off getting an iPod at all was its reliance on iTunes. I'd always viewed this as unnecessary, cumbersome and slightly sinister. Unlike Marmite (I was expecting to hate iTunes with a passion) I'm actually quite ambivalent. I had to spend a fair few hours tidying up my tracks on it, importing album artwork and the like, all to do something which I was doing perfectly well before and with no additional effort using Windows Explorer. Anyone who tells you iTunes is fantastic is either delusional or rather easily pleased, but it's not as offensive as I'd led myself to believe and you quickly get used to its many foibles and quirks.
Ultimately the iPod is an attractive, efficient player. Converting to the "dark side" hasn't transformed my existence on this planet, though it has made it a little more tuneful. I've used other makes of player in the past - iRiver, Samsung - all of which are edgier, more feature-packed and, when push comes to shove, better pieces of kit. Though I for one am enjoying, for once, the knowledge that I can walk into any store and buy accessories for days, and that I have the might of Apple behind my product.
Ambivalence aside, a well deserved 4 stars.
Worth the money November 10, 2007
Poet Laureate
81 out of 86 found this review helpful
After reading reviews on the Ipod Classic and the dodgy sound I was reluctant to fork out the money to get something that wasn't up to par. Anyway after about 30 minutes reading reviews I decided to bite the bullet and buy one. I was intending to only get the Nano 8GB version but the price difference between that and the classic 80GB was (to me ) worth it so I got the 80GB classic. I have to agree with the posters about the sound, I was pretty dissapointed until I swapped ear phones and plugged in my old creative MP3 player ones and it sounded excellent (Pink Floyd The Wall is a great sound tester)I could hear every strum of the guitar and every note as clear as a bell. Anyway I noticed the only difference between the Ipod earphones and the creative ones (apart from the colour)were the foam caps over the ear piece so I found an pair of foam ear phone caps that came with my nokia phone, I put them over the white Ipod ear phones plugged them back into the Ipod and the sound was a 100 percent improvement. I am getting some sennheiser 300x earphones today so the sound should be even better if that is possible. My only complaint is that the volume is not high enough,(this does not apply to everyday situations though). I work in construction, so when I am on the building site and some one is using a chop saw or a grinder nearby it is difficult to hear the music. I am hoping that the sennheiser earphones will remedy this though because they fit right down in your ear canal and I have read that they cut out a lot of ambient noise.
The screen is great too for viewing photos, lovely colour and clarity, I havent tried the video yet though because I havent got any MP4 videos and I cant be bothered decoding any.
I would like Apple to bring out a gizmo that I can put a memory card into and download photos from a memory card straight into the Ipod for when I am out photographing, preferablly one that will view RAW images.
To summarize, This is a great buy if you like fantastic sounding music, put foam caps over the original Ipod eraphones or buy new ones, preferably the ones that fit right into your ear to cut out loud ambient noise. This is the best thing I have bought for a long time.
 Please read this before you buy an ipod September 24, 2007
i wrote this (Bucks)
67 out of 93 found this review helpful
The ipod is a design classic; they all look great and are really easy to use. The problem is simple:
Apple do not build them to last, so they don't.
Which would be fine.... if they weren't so expensive.
Check out these extracts from the Guardian Money article "Is your iPod one of the bad Apples?":
"...the Sale of Goods Act.... guidelines from the Department of Trade & Industry...states that goods should last up to six years, depending on their cost and expected durability."
"Paul Edwards of Kendal in Cumbria found that his (ipod) battery packed up just outside the warranty period. `I contacted Apple, asked them to consider that electrical goods should last longer than a year as stated in Department of Trade & Industry guidelines and the Sale of Goods Act, and they have basically said no.' .... Mr Edwards contacted Guardian Money and we took up his case. But Apple repeated the same message to Mr Edwards - that the machine is only expected to last one year and no more."
This case is typical, go googling and you'll see there are thousands of unhappy ipod owners. Click wheels give out, screens crack, touch screens don't respond, batteries give up the ghost, head phone sockets crackle and fail. Add to this Apple's unspoken policy to never recall faulty hardware (check for yourself, they only ever `extend warranties' on systems with known common faults). Then add to that Apple's truely terrible UK & Ireland Customer Relations team based in Cork.
Forget the branding, the ease of use, the design and the street cred'. Only 2 things matter in a portable music player:
Reliability and good customer service if it goes wrong.
No ipod offer either of these, so don't buy one.
From a former Apple evangelist whose trying to redress the balance.
 Real price: 159, not English_Bargains 175 September 25, 2007
Bardamu
51 out of 66 found this review helpful
Why is Marketplace dealers selling a 159 product for more than it's normal retail price? What excuse can you use to sell it at 175, not including extra for postage? Again, you're best off going direct to Apple and getting free postage, free engraving and for the correct price of 159. You're best off avoiding Amazon Marketplace dealers, the service is unreliable. It's like somebody has set up a carboot sale in your favourite shop.
Anyway, the ipod itself:
Ipod
Cons:
Aluminium is prone to pitting from moisture or sweat, noticeable problem on powerbooks if not clean and dry at all times. Pitting happens only on areas such as where the hands rests whilst using touchpad and the touchpad button. This is liable to be more of a problem with ipods. Buying a black ipod maybe easier to hide pitting.
Back is still shiny and easily scratches. They dumped the white look, now it's time to dump the dated chrome.
Screen and frontplate are not smooth like previous ipods, nothing serious, may collect fluff and dirt. May also prove slightly better protection from scratching.
Limited video codec support, won't support all MP4 downloaded from the internet either (i.e. public domain videos from archive.org are hit or miss). Same goes for music files.
Doesn't like Linux and previous freeware/shareware will all need updating by developers to break apples extra coding.
Classic means this ipod will age very fast against newer MP3 players which won't find it difficult to catch up.
Click wheel a little unresponsive, leading to frequent input mistakes.
Sluggish UI at times, which may improve through updates to firmware over time.
Games are cheap and nasty and look very incongruous to ipods 'pretty' design. Instead of rubbish games, an FM tuner would have been better.
Proprietary cable needed for line out video.
Complete dependancy on itunes, no drop and drag function which goes against Apples previous ideas of ease of use. Also in keeping with Apples obsession with closed systems (if you can't open it, you don't own it).
Design over function, the obsession with getting things thin means losing things people want. Like no FM tuner inbuilt or more importantly an easily removable battery. COME ON! Again Apple is saying an ipod is disposable technology that should only last as long as the battery.
Crippled function with some previous accessories, although my Altec old speakers from 3Gen ipod times still charges and works just as well.
Audiophiles report serious problems with sound quality. If you use "sound check", due to volume limitations, some tracks will be far too quiet.
Lots of what if only complaints. Apple inspires the idea it's products are far more capable than they really are, leading to a feeling of disappointment. It hypes up it's products to the point the products can't compete.
It's the ipod 5.6Gen, it's not a 6Gen ipod (that's the ipod touch). No huge reason to upgrade, unless you have an ailing or storage that's become too small. This is certainly not a must have item.
Crashes...crashes frequently.
Only better than other MP3 players, because others haven't got their acts together, not because the ipod is so good. And you only buy this because it's better the devil you know...and because the ipod touch has such an utterly laughable storage capability. If a 200 80GB ipod touch existed... (shame it's all flash and no substance). Windows users may be advised to wait and see what the Zune2 offers... If it can't beat this offering, then Microsoft should pack up and give in.
Concerns about Apples quality control. Apple have had a track record of poor quality control, the ipod touch proving no acceptation. I found the plastic around the ipod connector already loose out of the box. I've had a few powerbooks and ibooks and ALL had problems like failing hardrives, disc drives and batteries within a couple of weeks of buying. If I wasn't an Apple fan (sucker), then I wouldn't have risked buying another ipod.
Coverflow is a novelty, you'll be faced with lots of "?" album covers, but it can be removed. More of an ipod touch thing.
Headphones are rubbish.
Still with USB2 connection, while it'll charge with firewire, but no syncing. This is a second rate idea, especially on macs which all have firewire as standard. The mac on to be on to charge through USB, so a power adaptor is very useful. That'll cost you extra.
Pros:
Audio pauses when headphones are removed (but not video, why?)
Battery life is much better.
Ipod 160GB is too expensive, the 80GB is the all rounder and safe bet of the ipod line. It's just not as interesting as the new nano or the ipod touch. It's still the better choice, even if it won't set the world on fire.
No more White ipods! Although why not colour variations like the nano?
The screen is very good quality, but nothing you haven't seen before on high quality digital cameras. It can be so bright, you could almost use it as a tourch.The size is too small to watch long movies (although with good eyesight, it's possible with good encoding you can read subtitles). If you watch podcasts and youtube clips, it's more than capable. In portable video stakes, it's going to be beaten by every new MP3 player you'll see.
It looks pretty and the GUI is pretty too. The GUI is a vast improvement (but coming from someone replacing a 3Gen ipod, it's not saying much).
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