Advantages: Size, Workmanship, Functionality Disadvantages: Zero support for some old peripherals, crashes car stereo , Bit heavy!
and click 'get album artwork' - this did take a while... but worked! Whilst coverflow looks nice I don't think it adds extra functionality to the IPod... more a space draining quirk! It does look awesome though ;-)
Sound playback is the usual high standard - but this is really down to you, the user - I have all my imported (off CD) music set to apple loss-less. Which will take up more space, but with 160 GIGS to play with... it is not a great deal more! It must be said - the headphones supplied are useless... get some Sennheiser CX300 - the added clarity is noticeable - and you do not need it as loud! The hat trick is that the ear buds stay in my ear when I am working out.
Video playback; to test this I ripped Family Guy from dvd to IPod using the ImToo software package. Quality was good - but KILLS your battery! So not ideal ...
Advantages: Easy To Use, Lots Of Memory, Many New Features Disadvantages: None
Apple iPod Classic 160GB Silver
The Apple iPod Classic is a great mp3 player. With 160GB of memory you wont have to worry about how much space you've got left ever again. I paid about £220 for my iPod classic and it was well worth it. With the iPod Classic you can browse you music in many different ways. The newest feature to searching for music is the cover flow feature. This is where you can browse all of your albums by the front cover and you simply click on the cover to see the track listing. You can still browse by Song, Artist, Album and most played. The video feature is excellent. You can hold up to 200 hours of video, all on your iPod Classic. I must say that I am very impressed with the video quality. It's just like watching a TV but with a smaller screen. You can download all of your favourite TV shows straight from ...
Apple iPod Classic 160GB
The iPod Classic is the best once so far with many features. There is not much you can't do on your iPod Classic and with 160GB of memory you cant go wrong. When you used to have the 2 GB iPod Nano you was always worrying about how much space you had left but now everything is going to change. The iPod Classic is very durable and is practically unbreakable.
The battery life on the iPod Classic is excellent. You can listen to music for up to 40 hours and you can watch videos for up to 7 hours. The memory is the best thing with the iPod Classic. You can hold up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video. It's just like having your whole music and video collection in your pocket. I paid about £200 for my iPod Classic and it was without a doubt well worth it.
As most of you should know the click wheel is ...
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology
Compliant Standards
S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate
300 MBps (external)
Seek Time
12 ms (average) / 22 ms (max), 10.5 ms (average) / 18 ms (max), 10.5 ms (average)
Track-to-Track Seek Time
2 ms, 1 ms
Average Latency
5.55 ms
Spindle Speed
5400 rpm, 7200 rpm
Internal Data Rate
112 MBps
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors
1 per 10^13, 1 per 10^14
Seek Errors
1 per 10^6
MTBF
600,000 hour(s), 300,000 hour(s)
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces
1 x Serial ATA-300
Compatible Bays
1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
Miscellaneous
Works with Windows Vista
Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.
Compatible with Windows 7
Software and devices that carry the Compatible with Windows 7 logo have the Microsoft assurance these products have passed tests for compatibility and reliability with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature
5 °C
Max Operating Temperature
55 °C
Humidity Range Operating
8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance
350 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms half-sine pulse (non-operating), 300 g @ 2ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating), 350 g @ 2ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance
1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 5-500 Hz (non-operating), 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 15-500 Hz (non-operating), 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating)
Sound Emission
27 dB, 25 dB
Manufacturer's product description
The MK1637GSX 2.5-inch 160GB hard disk drive offers the industries highest areal density per platter, at 123.8 gigabits per square inch. The drive's 5400 RPM motor speed, improves system-level performance by as much as 12 percent when compared to 4200 RPM. This new drive offers enough capacity for portable video recording and editing, with lower power consumption compared to the traditional 3.5-inch HDDs. This functionality provides ideal storage for a range of commercial and consumer notebooks, as well as non-PC applications such as PDAs, printers, copiers, GPS systems and MP3 players. The MK1637GSX incorporates the Serial ATA (SATA) II interface and is ATA-7 compliant, supporting high transfer rates of up to 300 megabytes per second.
