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| Apple iPod classic 80 GB Silver (6th Generation) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $229.00
You Save: $20.00 (8%)
New (27) Used (7) Refurbished (5) from $179.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  599 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Size: 80 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 3.5 x 1.7
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MB029LL/A
Model: MB029LL/A
UPC: 885909168651
EAN: 0885909168651
ASIN: B000JO1380
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Black or Silver
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| Features:
| • | iPod classic puts your entire music and video collection in your pocket with up to 160 GB of storage | | • | An enhanced interface offers a whole new way to browse and view your music and video | | • | Cover Flow technology lets you use the patented Click Wheel to flip through your music by album cover | | • | Beautifully redesigned, iPod classic features a sleek, new all-metal enclosure | | • | 2.5-inch display; measures 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.41 inches (H x W x D), weighs 4.9 ounces |
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Amazon.com Product Description
With 80GB or 160GB of storage, iPod classic gives your music and video room to move. It also has plenty of energy (up to 40 hours of audio playback), good looks (a sleek, all-metal design), and a great personality (a brand-new interface with Cover Flow). In other words, iPod classic makes an ideal companion. Cover Flow
If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod classic, you can flip through your music to find the album you want to hear. Use the Click Wheel to browse music by album cover, then select an album to flip it over and see the track list. 
With 80GB or 160GB of storage, iPod classic gives your music and video room to move. View iPod classic dimensions. | 
Up to 40 hours of audio playback in the palm of your hand. View larger. | 
Thinner and more compact than ever. | Music
Use the Click Wheel to adjust volume, navigate songs, browse in Cover Flow, or explore the Music menu by playlist, artist, album, song, genre, composer, and more. Want to mix things up? Click Shuffle Songs. iPod classic makes your music look as good as it sounds, thanks to its big, bright, color display. Movies
Buy movies from the iTunes Store and you can sync them to your iPod classic to watch anywhere, anytime. The gorgeous 2.5-inch display makes your movies pop. And iPod classic keeps you entertained for up to 7 hours. Long flight or darkened room? Adjust the brightness for even more video playback time. TV Shows
There's always something good on iPod classic. Browse thousands of episodes of your favorite TV shows on the iTunes Store, buy them for just $1.99 each, then sync them to iPod classic. Watch last night's episodes this morning, or buy a whole TV series and play a pocket-size marathon. Podcasts
The iTunes Store features thousands of free video and audio podcasts, including indie favorites and offerings from such big names as ABC News, Comedy Central, ESPN, PBS, NPR, and many more. Browse and subscribe to podcasts, then sync them to your iPod classic. You can even play video podcasts on TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable. Audiobooks
The digital shelves of the iTunes Store are stocked with thousands of audiobooks--including exclusives like the entire Harry Potter series--so you can catch up on your reading wherever iPod classic takes you. iPod classic recognizes where you left off and bookmarks your place. You can even adjust the reading speed to suit you. Games
Put hours of fun at your fingertips. iPod classic comes with three games--Vortex, iQuiz, and Klondike--and you can download more from the iTunes Store for $4.99 each. All iPod games are designed specifically for the iPod interface. And all of them look great on the 2.5-inch color display. Photos
iPod classic holds up to 25,000 photos you can sync from your Mac or PC via iTunes. Use the Click Wheel to scroll through photo thumbnails the same way you scroll through song titles. To see a photo full screen, click the center button. You can even view photo slideshows--complete with music and transitions--on iPod classic or on a TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable. Search
With up to 40,000 songs on your iPod classic, you need an easy way to search your collection. A built-in search function lets you use the Click Wheel to type out the name of the song, artist, album, audiobook, or podcast you're looking for. iPod classic returns results instantly as you select letters. Extras
Calendars, contacts, and a clock appear in the Extras menu, along with a few more handy items. Take the screen lock, for example. Spin the Click Wheel to choose a four-digit combination and protect your iPod classic from prying eyes. If you forget your combination, just reset when you sync. Or use the built-in stopwatch to log your best times.
Product Description
The iPod classic features an updated design on the digital media player you already know and love. Some of the new bits include a sleek all-metal enclosure, a massive increase in storage space, a thinner body, and a brand-new user interface featuring Cover Flow. Cover Flow allows you to easily browse through your music collection by flipping through each album's cover art using the Click Wheel. When you find the album you want, you can flip it over for the track listing. Just like you'd do with a real CD or vinyl. Connects to a PC or Mac through USB (using the dock connector) Charge Time - about 4 hours (2 hours fast charge to 80% capacity) Audio Support - AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, & 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, & AIFF Photo Support - Syncs iPod-viewable photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG formats Video Support - H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats Unit Dimensions - 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.41 Unit Weight - 4.9 oz. Color - Silver
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| Customer Reviews: Read 594 more reviews...
 I couldn't live without my iPod. May 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I couldn't live without my new iPod. I recently upgraded my problem-free 4th generation 40 GB iPod to a 6th generation 80 GB classic introduced by Apple on September 5, 2007. The 6th generation iPod features a sleek, slightly thinner body, improved battery life (up to 40 hours of music playback and 7 hours of video playback), and a front plate made of anodized aluminum instead of polycarbonate plastic. The user interface offers more graphics and something new: "Cover Flow." Although I have more than 10,000 songs on my 80 GB model, there is sufficient storage for up to 20,000 songs. For use with a PC, the 6th generation iPod requires a minimum Windows WXP SP2XP operating system, (unlike my 4th generation iPod, which required a minimum Windows 2000 operating system). Initially, the 6th Generation iPod lacked sound quality in the mid range, but a February 6, 2008 Apple firmware update (1.1.1) has reportedly resolved this issue, improving sound quality. The 6th generation iPod features:
1. Cover Flow, which enables a user to browse music by album cover. One minor complaint: on my iPod, not all album artwork appears in Cover Flow mode.
2. Music, organized by playlist, artist, album, song, genre, composer, and more. I primarily use my iPod as a music storage device, and thus far it provided me with problem-free performance.
3. Movies, may be purchased on iTunes and then viewed on this iPod (for up to 7 hours).
4. TV Shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Games may be purchased on iTunes and then synced to this iPod.
5. Photos, the iPod classic holds up to 25,000 photos.
6. Tech Support. I have an Apple store in my neighborhood, and the staff there has prodided me with excellent in-person technical assistance in transfering my music library from my Windows 2000 Operating System to my Windows XP Operating System. They have also been very helpful in answering all questions I have relating to my iPod. Apple telephone technical support, however, has been less helpful on occasion.
I back up my iPod's music library to a highly-recommended Western Digital WDXMS2500TN Passport 250 GB USB Portable Hard Drive, which is roughly the same size as my iPod.
G. Merritt
Impressive May 14, 2008
I just received the Apple iPod classic 160 GB Silver (6th Generation) I had ordered through Amazon. I am pretty impressed by the product. It's extremely useful as I now have more space for my music, videos etc.
Great gadget, great color, all the gigs I need May 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this silver ipod classic to replace a black 5G that was stolen. For what it's worth, I like the silver color better. It doesn't show scratches as much as the black. 80 gig's is enough for my entire digitized music collection, a couple movies, and nearly a dozen TV episodes. Plus, Amazon sold this model for about $215 at the time I got it--though it's worth a list price at Apple. The only drawback to getting this ipod through Amazon is that you can't engrave it with your name, number, or email--but my first video ipod was engraved, and it still got stolen.
I LOVE IT!!! May 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Apple just rarely ever disappoints, that's all there is to it!! Ipods just keep getting better, and the 6th generation 80GB is certainly no exception. Really your only question to yourself is how many songs/pics/vids you want to have at hand, and what price-range you're looking at.
The Closest Thing to Perfection : How Apple Got it Right May 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Ipod 160 GB is perhaps the greatest piece of evidence that Apple is way ahead of the game. Not only is this the sleekest, most advanced music player I've ever laid my eyes on, its also the one with the highest storage space (at the time of writing), and perhaps the most stunningly simple user interface. Even if you've used Ipods before (as have I), the 160 GB Ipod comes as a breath of fresh air, especially for users with humungous libraries such as the one I possess. Despite over 200 GB of music, I also have another 60 GB of video (and more added to that everyday) on my Itunes library. Obviously, I can't fit all of that information onto this Ipod, but at the highest end of storage space, this is obviously the way to go.
Reading some of the reviews here, I am glad that I have experienced NONE of the issues other users have mentioned. In fact, nothing has gone wrong at all. The first time I plugged the Ipod in, straight out the box, I named it, and proceeded to sync about 110 GB of information right away (I didn't even bother to charge the battery fully, and I'm guessing this wasn't perhaps the right way to go, but whatever). 110 GB of information took close to three hours to sync (which isn't a bad thing), and it was cool watching songs literally 'fly' into the Ipod - the transfer rates are amazing here!
My only pet peeve was the Cover Flow feature that everyone seems to have a problem with. Even if I have legally downloaded music or my mammoth collection of music ripped from my CDs as well as those tons of albums that I've downloaded off the Web, I always make sure to tag each album with the right high-resolution artwork. Which is why nearly every song on my library has artwork associated with it. This is a good thing, because when I choose 'Cover Flow' as an option to research my music library on the Ipod, it doesn't give me blank placeholders like it does for so many other users. It gives me a relevant picture every single time, and this really works for me. Other users have also commented on the slow speed of the Cover Flow option - it is a little slow and you can hear that hard drive within the Ipod turn a little bit - but its nothing you can't deal with.
Remember that this Ipod is NOT flash-based. Its hard-drive based, but thats nothing to put you off. Things start just as quickly as they do on the Nano or the Ipod Touch, and I vastly prefer using this than any of the other two devices. The greatest thing about this model is obviously the storage space, but also the fact that it never lets you doubt its capacity and speed-ability for a second.
The video facility is great, but as usual every single video needs to be in that MP4 format that Apple knows and loves. I'm not so sure about MP4, primarily because it doesn't give me excellent resolution. I wish there were some way I could directly put my DVD's raw master-data VOB files on the Ipod to play, but I guess technology hasn't quite caught up yet. In many instances, despite the rather small screen, you can still tell that the quality of video is drastically reduced on an MP4 when you rip it from a DVD. I recently bought a legal copy of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" starring Brad Pitt (on a side note - the film is a masterpiece), and thought it to be one of the most amazing pieces of art ever. When I ripped it to MP4 (and I experimented with different conversion programs) and put it on the Ipod, some of the charm and 'wow' factor were lost. Oh well, on a screen this small, you can't really complain.
Not that the screen is THAT small. Sure, its big enough, but this is perhaps the only place where the Iphone and Ipod Touch score more points than the Ipod Classic. Also, it doesn't matter if your raw video file pre-conversion is in low quality WMV, AVI, MPEG, FLV or RM format - after you use an MP4 convertor, the files pretty much become the same size and same quality of video resolution. I'm not so sure about this though, as the low quality rip of Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" that I ripped off You-tube, seemed exactly the same as the 210MB AVI Madonna video that I converted into MP4. Still, the fact that this can hold all of my videos in one place is all that I really want, and it really is like my entire music and video library walking around with me. Brilliant!
Also note that though this is the 160 GB model, the available space is actually only around 142 GB (you'll notice the same thing in other Ipods as well). That's OK though, as this will be my handy companion until Apple decides to offer a 500GB model or (even better) a 1TB model. You must remember that there are many, many users out there with enormous music and video libraries. My own video library grows at a rapid pace everyday, as I buy DVDs or download movies from the Web every week, and I could easily hit the 1TB mark by the end of the year at the rate I'm going. Through that spectrum, 160 GB does seem rather small. I guess its just a matter of pick and choose.
Users have also complained about the sound quality here. I must say that it sounds pretty much the same as my Ipod Shuffle and my friends' Ipod Nano, but it actually sounds better when you get rid of the white Apple earphones and invest in some proper earphone equipment. Believe me, its worth the investment. I always have felt that the white Apple headphones lacked depth, clarity or 'life', and when I recently picked up some Creative headphones and plugged them into my Ipod, it seemed as if I was listening to a totally different device. Point: the Ipod is brilliant, but it needs proper earphones to actually appreciate.
Also, to avoid my Ipod from getting scratched or injured, I immediately picked up an Ipod case to hold it. I suggest doing the same as the device seems way too precious to be carried around naked. Placing it in a holder makes perfect sense, it also looks better, and in my own personal case - my case disguises my Ipod as a low-cost mobile phone that no one in their right minds would want to steal! Invest in something like that, and you'll be thanking yourself later.
After about ten months of solid MP3 player research, and having tried out virtually every other brand in the market at stores and through friends' experiences, I am glad to say that the Ipod 160 GB is clearly the winner by a large margin. While lovers of style versus substance would always pick the Ipod Touch as the clear winner due to its' larger screen and more hi-tech appearance, the upper-end storage-loving ones amongst us will almost universally gravitate toward the 160 GB. Believe me, if at all you have a large library, this is the ONLY way to go.
Five Stars. The greatest musical invention thus far, and one that is worth every shred of its' asking price. A masterpiece of technological advancement.
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