But, for everyone else with a classic, dig it, love it, enjoy it for many years!! With all of that capacity, everyone should have at least 1 Grateful Dead CD on their iPod. If I remember correctly, flash is around 1,800% more than traditional drives. It may have actually been on Apple’s website or during S. I don’t remember where I read or heard about the cost comparison between flash and mechanical drives. I’m sure it will be a while yet before we see some serious flash storage capacity – affordable at least. I have a few friends who killed their hard drive based iPods within a few short months by leaving them in their cars during climate changes. The reason is superior durability! With solid state or “flash” architecture you need not worry about expansion and contraction during climate changes like you do with a mechanical hard drive. Still, I haven’t had so much as a single glitch from this baby. In all of time I’ve owned it, I never once removed it from my car even though the climate in my area can drop to zero (inside the car) on a winter night or reach blistering temps of 130 degrees or more when parked in direct sunlight with the windows (pardon the term) closed during the summer months. I own a 4gb Nano that I hardwired with a line level connection in my car. That iPod will be the sweetest ticket in town since the introduction of Apple’s first iPod as the capacity grows. Just a note for everyone who would have loved to buy the touch iPod but couldn’t live with the reduced capacity. I’m a hard core, exclusive Apple user but the new classic iPod is their first product I'm genuinely disappointed in. In essence, Apple enlarged the iPod screen with the first generation video units only to cut the screen in half making everything on the screen very crowded unless it's 12 inches from your eyes. This is strictly my opinion, and I’m certain I’m in the minority – but I downright disliked the new interface. I have to say I am an original 5gb first generation iPod buyer and have purchased a new one each time a new one was introduced. My issues extended beyond music and into the video section that could not be controlled under any command. I hope someone can help me before I pack this baby up to back. To me simplicity is more attractive and elegant. On a personal note, I prefer the previous interface. Has anyone else experienced these problems? Are they problems or, as I asked in the beginning my post – am I really that stupid that I can’t figure these things out on my own? I simply haven’t had any problems with any other Apple products. There are actually other bugs but one that bothers me the most is, if you watch a movie in wide format, I may have two black bars (top and bottom) or two white bars that will change intermittently throughout the movie. Also, in my “main menu” settings, even if I un-check a feature so it shouldn’t be visible in my “main menu”, surprise – it’s there. Second problem, every time I shut down the power to the iPod everyone of my custom settings revert back to the factory settings – including asking me which language I prefer to use when I power it up again. So, my question is: how can 3 or 4 arbitrary songs across dozens of CD’s not be recognized? 5,000 songs were taken from my CD collection and converted in the exact same fashion. The reason I’m perplexed is, is that my entire library of approx. Meanwhile, I get a message that 100’s of songs cannot be copied to my iPod because they are in a format that my new iPod doesn’t understand. Every CD was converted EXACTLY the same way in iTunes to MP3 format In other words, I have NO downloaded music from the iTunes store - or any other such method. My entire library consists of my own purchased CD’s from over the years. After connecting the ipod to my computer and agreeing to be an honest John with Apple’s software, I chose to manually control my library. Be that as it may, after turning on my new “classic”, I custom set everything the way I am comfortable in using the equipment. I own several other ipods as well as other Mac equipment and have become well versed in trouble shooting issues that even Apple couldn’t initially diagnose. Got my 160gb classic yesterday and have combed through the entire “feature guide” (Apple PDF download) and still have more bugs than a hornets nest.
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