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12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
2.5 stars
"Beautiful and Buggy"
Pros: graphics updated, menu logic makes good sense
Cons: laggy dial, hard drive skips(?!), same sound quality
Summary: I'm sending my silver 80gb ipod classic back to Apple and here's why. I'm comparing this to my 3g 60gb ipod. The improvements in the ipod classic come at an unacceptable cost in terms of speed. At first, I thought the touchdial was broken because of its uneven response to my input. Then I realized that the software was just catching up to the sensory input. The nice graphics in the classic are enough of a drain on the dynamic memory that scrolling becomes way laggy. I find myself concentrating really hard to make sure the song I want to select is the one that actually gets selected. Graphics are nice and surprisingly crisp. The lag is surprisingly annoying. They may fix this in an update, but I'm not risking $250 on that. The calibration of the touchdial is really not great either. I find that I have to press and drag for a relatively long time to scroll up just one song.
Oh, and the sound quality out of the earbuds still really really stinks compared to other players out there. The player has millisecond breaks within songs for no reason. My 3G had those qualities too, so I don't mark the classic down too much for those issues.
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Actually, I found my earphones (with a pink 3g nano) fine. The only things that annoyed me about them were a) they screamed, "I own an iPod! Rob me!" and b) they let all the outside noise in.
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First off the bugs have been fixed. An update was released, and its no slower than the 5G Video. Which often froze on me.
And do you seriously expect good sound quality from crap headphones apple ships? Go out spend a bit of money on good headphones and the quality is amazing.
Where to buy
Apple iPod Classic (80GB, silver):
$273.95
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