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I d recommend the iPod Classic without hesitation, to those who have more than 8 or 16 GBs of music in their iTunes library and want to carry their entire collection. Furthermore, if you have videos and video podcasts you want to always carry with you, again, you can t beat the storage. I have the lower capacity flash devices as well, but the big hard drive based iPod Classic continues to play an important role in my iPod Collection.
Not much has changed to these new ones, except the interface a little. I love genius and I am stoked that it was worked into the functionality. It remains about the same size as my 5th generation? video and so still fits my old rubber case (which is nice).
Probably the best thing about it is, doing a comparison between my roommates 30GB ipod video and this one, I find that the audio quality on this one has improved quite a bit. I don t know if its the connectors or maybe a d-a converter, but it definitely sounds better. I am a recording engineer so I might be a little more apt to hear it, but its cool.
In a number of circles, the iPod Classic is now considered the less sexy iPod. Largely because of the things it appears to lack vis-a-vis the newest fully-wired iPods/iPhones: orlando hotels with shuttles to universal it doesn t have a phone function (d oh!), it doesn t do wide-screen for video and games the way an iPhone/iPod Touch does, and well, it doesn t seem as much *fun*, darn it! (Memo to the only-two-colors-available fashionistas: silver and [charcoal] black, being *classic* colors, go with everything. When s the last time you saw a pink Audi or Merc? Mary Kay doesn t hand either of those out to its top sales stars, which is just as well.)
At the time, people were clamoring for Apple to include video in their next-generation iPods (they had just announced the iPod Photo, which was the very first iPod I ever owned sometimes, not being an early adopter can pay off). His Steveness replied, more or less, that people orlando hotels with shuttles to universal value music a lot more than than they value TV/video stuff, so for the time being, no video iPods. While I happened to agree with Jobs sentiments (I rarely watch the box, so there), I also knew how shrewd a businessman he was, and if the Hoi Polloi wanted video in their iPods, by cracky, he d make em! And while I wouldn t damn him to Hades for such a pragmatic orlando hotels with shuttles to universal decision (he s doing this stuff to make a buck, okay?), the aesthete in me would be put off just a bit. That was then.
NOW: Through a bit of hard work and happenstance, an iPod Classic (120GB) happened to fall into my lap recently (long story). My beloved 60GB iPod Photo wasn t even half-full, orlando hotels with shuttles to universal but I welcomed this newest Pod with open arms. The reasons?
- Capacity. Let the deniers who bought their iPhones, Touches, and nanos prattle on; if you re a serious music lover, you ve got a ton of music on the home front, and, if you re Of A Certain Age, probably in more than one format: CD, LP cassette, and, if you re particularly well-preserved, you might even have a few commercially-produced open-reel tapes lurking about. Paying upwards of $400 or so for the biggest iPod Touch might be a bit of a stretch for you am I right? You might not even give a rat s tuchus (it s okay to say that here, right?) about video and gaming orlando hotels with shuttles to universal capability, but you ll really care about capacity. Are we grokking orlando hotels with shuttles to universal here?
Good. Because this iPod, even this late in the game, is aimed toward you and me. Apple, now the 900lb gorilla orlando hotels with shuttles to universal of the portable digital-media market (how strange that must be to Mssrs Gates Ballmer) has the market covered: you want a device that s all-singing, all-dancing? You can get an iPhone, or, short of that, an iPod Touch. If it s got to be as tiny as possible (I won t ask why ), there s the nano, or, if it really has to be much smaller, the lovely 2nd-Gen Shuffle (which my Significant Other managed to lose shortly after I presented one to her as a gift; she ll inherit my iPod Photo now).
- True Gapless Playback. The iPod Photo had just one glaring flaw: any album by a group that had a thing for track-into-track segues (say, XTC, the Beatles, Pink Floyd you get the idea) didn t translate at all with the Photo; you d get an abrupt track change instead of the smooth, proper transition the band and engineers intended. I know the iPod Generation kicked off the rip/mix/bur