Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2812 in Consumer Electronics
• Colour: SILVER
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB562ZO/A
• Released on: 2008-09-09
• Dimensions: 3.94" h x 8.00" w x 19.68" l, .31 pounds
• Native resolution: 2.5” (51x39 mm) colour screen displays
• Display size: 2.5

Manufacturer's Description

One size fits all.
With 120GB of storage, iPod classic can hold up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, or 25,000 photos. That’s more than enough room for a day’s — or a lifetime’s — worth of entertainment. Available in quintessential silver or striking new black, iPod classic catches your eye with its sleek, all-metal enclosure composed of anodised aluminium and polished stainless steel.

	Meet a musical Genius. Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. With a few clicks, the new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself. While you reacquaint yourself with the music you already own, let Genius introduce you to new music you’ll love. As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it. The Genius sidebar won’t recommend songs already in your library, and you can preview and buy recommended songs directly from the sidebar.
	Hold everything. iPod classic gives you 120GB of storage capacity, good for up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination. And you get up to 36 hours of battery life, so you can keep on rocking for a long, long time. With 120GB of space, iPod classic means you can always have your entire music and movie library with you. Carry it from the living room to a party in the backyard. Or take it on a cross-country road trip and never listen to the same song twice.
	Click to enjoy. Finding exactly what you want to watch or listen to is easy. Use the Click Wheel to browse by album art with Cover Flow or navigate your songs and videos by playlist, artist, album, genre, and more. You can also search for specific titles and artists. Want to mix things up? Click Shuffle Songs for a different experience every time.
	Watch movies and TV shows. The vivid 2.5-inch display makes video come alive. Purchase or rent movies, buy TV shows, and download video podcasts from the iTunes Store, then sync them to your iPod classic to watch anywhere, anytime. With titles from every major Hollywood studio, the iTunes Store makes it easy to rent your favourite films with a click. Standard-definition movie rentals are £2.49 for library titles and £3.49 for new releases. Rent a movie and you have 30 days to start watching it. Hit Play, and you have 24 hours to finish it — or play it as many times as you want. Rentals disappear when they expire, so they won’t take up space on your hard drive.
	Play iPod games. Put hours of fun at your fingertips. All iPod games are designed specifically for the iPod interface. The new iPod classic and iPod nano both come with the games Vortex and Klondike. Once you master those, why not pick up Monopoly, Uno, or Sudoku? Preview them free on the iTunes Store before you buy. With games on your iPod, it’s like carrying a whole arcade in your pocket.
	Share your photos. iPod classic uses iTunes to sync the photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. View photo slideshows complete with music and transitions on iPod classic, or play them on a TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable.

Box Contents
iPod classic
Earphones
USB 2.0 cable
Dock adapter
Quick Start guide

Customer Reviews

Outstanding value for money
I bought one of these in November 2008 (it is January 2009 as I write this) as a relatively inexpensive portable place to "dump" all my music. In other words, the 120GB capacity was the attraction. But what a surprise - iPod turns out to be a really great little device! So far, I have about 12000 songs on mine, and a few full-length movies, and I still have 36GB free. That's about 38 days' worth of continuous music, plus movies.

The user interface is very easy to use, and remarkably intuitive. Coverflow can be a little slow to get started, if you have a lot of music, and it's not as useful as it looks. The little colour screen is actually quite good for viewing movies. Of the three games incldued, the music trivia quiz is the best. It uses your own music (and the tag info in them) to form multiple choice questions. If you take the trouble to keep your tags reasonably accurate, and you find out the right cover artwork files (which I have) the quiz is very good indeed. basically, the better your music collection, the better the quiz is.

Anyway, games aside (they are a minor matter) the playback quality is excellent. I didn't bother with the cheapo headphones, and bought some Sennheiser headphones. The sound quality is now excellent.

Movies: It is possible to rip DVDs to play on iPod, by converting them to MP4 format. This takes about 2 hours and you need to hunt down some (free) software on the web to do it. The resulting playback quality is surprisingly good.

If anything lets iPod down, it is the iTunes software that is used to manage it. It is just a bit slow - slow to load, slow to respond to commands, slow to shutdown, slow to detect iPod... And for something so heavily reliant on MP3 tags for its music database, it has really poor tag editing tools.

All in all, this iPod is great value for money. If it died on me, I would immediately buy another one.

Excellent but wish I got it in black
I love my new ipod but when you scratch the silver one it is very noticable and finger prints and such show up easily, get it in black. No complaints about the actual product though, very easy to use, cool extras, charges quick, battery lasts a long time and it can hold a lot of music.

The best Ipod, untill Ipod touch gets more memory
I commute 4 hours to work everyday door to door so I need a bit of entertainment. I bought this for my dad for his 70th birthday after he saw mine and wanted one.

It has 120gb of memory, around 10gb is used for its own stuff so you only get about 110gb.

Design - I love the design, I have the black one but I bought the silver for my dad, I think the Silver is nicer.

Interface - It has the new coverflow system, which is quite nice, but since it has a harddrive and not flash memory, it takes a few seconds for the album art to load. In general it is a bit on the slow side, reminds me of early colour mobile phones, but its not a massive delay moving from menu to menu so I guess its ok.

Memory - 120gb is a lot. I have over 50 movies on my Ipod and its only half full.

One thing to be aware of, if you are using a Apple Mac, you need new versions of Mac OSX and USB 2 or else it wont work. I was a bit cheesed off since I had an old Imac (the one like half a football). Anyway I was due to buy a new computer so I went for a laptop PC and its all fine now. But if you are using an Apple, make sure its compatible, on a PC you need at least Windows XP, which I guess is fine for everyone.

My dad's Ipod crashed once and he lost some data but not all his stuff, but it was backed up on my PC. This didnt happen to mine, but my Ipod crashed once and needed to be re-set. I didnt lose any data.

Screen - I think its small but fine. You can watch a movie with subtitles on it.

Battery - The battery lasts for ages if you only listen to music, but video is around 7 hours from my experience. If you look on the Apple website it claims to be much more, which is a bit of a lie.

Itunes is rubbish on PC so use an alternative, just google Ipod manager and you can easily find alternatives.

If you are using it for music you cant go wrong. If you want a lot of video, in retrospect the Archos players might be better, but I think they are a bit more expensive and bulkier.