I bought myself one of the new iPod classics. My older iPod (a third-generation model) has served me well, but it has had a few problems. The battery went through a period of only holding a low charge, which has since righted itself, and the disk inside it has developed bad sectors, so some songs would skip randomly. On the whole, it has been good though, and proven itself quite reliable. It’s fairly bulky, heavy, and I’ve nearly filled it.
I bought a black 160Gb model, which is four times bigger than my old one, plus it has colour, and video/photo support. It has quite a few niceties, like video playback, a much bigger screen, better battery life, and a search facility.
My first impressions are good. The interface is a little sluggish sometimes though, although it seems to sort itself out as it caches data. I bought some replacement Sennheiser MX51 headphones, for two reasons. Firstly, the Apple headphones are usually pretty rubbish, and second, they’re incredibly obvious and have ‘mug me, I have an iPod’ written all over them. The Sennheisers are quite bland by comparison, but have fairly good sound.
I need to get a new dock stand for it, as it doesn’t quite fit in my old stand, but otherwise, it works well, and I’m quite pleased with it.