Apple iPod Video 60 GB White MA003LL/A (5th Generation) OLD MODEL

Sometimes You Just Want More
Okay, so you're thinking of buying an iPod. You've seen the iPod Touch and you've been blown away. Who wouldn't be? It's a great little gizmo. You can do a lot with it, surf the web, play Tetris, learn Japanese, do e-mail, play music and so much more, but if you're like me and have more music than you can shake a stick and you want to carry it with you wherever you go, then the iPod Touch just might not cut the mustard, storage wise.

If it's just music or videos you want an iPod for. Or if you have an iPhone and you need a second device to carry around your music, then I'd heartedly recommend a 5th Gen iPod. Read on and see why.

I was cruising Amazon, checking out small hard drives, as I wanted to carry all my music around with me. I somehow wound up the page for the Apricorn Bio Hard Drive, a beautiful little beauty, to be sure, but I don't really need to protect my music from prying eyes, or ears for that matter. However, I clicked on over to their website and I found something much better than an external drive. I found their upgrade kit for the 5th Generation iPods and I knew it was exactly what I was looking for.

If you've got either the 5th Generation 30GB, the 60GB or the 80GB you are in luck, because not only do you have one great machine, but you can make it outstanding. Apple's current iPod Classic carries 160GB of storage, with the upgrade from Apricorn you can turn your 5th Gen 30GB iPod into a 120GB beauty and Apricorn throws in a new 580mAH battery with the hard drive along with all the direction and the tools you'll need to do the job yourself. Yeah, you don't have to send your machine to Apple to replace that battery. It's not that hard.

But what if you've got a 5th Gen 60 or 80GB iPod. Well for over half a C note less than what a new iPod Classic costs, you can upgrade the iPod you have with 240GB of storage, yeah, 240 gigs, that's a lot of music. And you get a new battery with this upgrade, too. So, how hard is the upgrade to do. It took me twenty minutes, it's easier than you'd think. Once finished, hook the iPod up to you're computer and let iTunes do it's magic and you're good to go.

The 5th Gen iPod is a solid music player even without upgrading. It's easy enough to sink it with iTunes and change the music on it. I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone, but if you want more, well you can have it.

Worst money I ever spent
I bought the iPod 60 GB White and could not wait to use it. I charged it and loaded up about 1000 songs and had problems from that point on. The iPod had great sound and performance. After the battery ran completely down I tried to recharge it and it locked up. I rebooted it and charged it. The locking up happens everytime the battery runs down. After 6 months the iPod would not reboot and for 0.00 apple will fix it but with no guarantee that this will not happen again. No thanks, I will not ever buy an iPod again...

Watch Out for Used or Refurbished Models
I bought my 60GB Video IPod over the internet, "refurbished." While I was satisfied with most of my IPod's attributes initially, it took awhile before I realized how poor the battery life was. Most frustrating was the fact that the battery was drained of all power after a few days even when it was off. If I actually played the thing, it also didn't match the promised 20 hours battery life, more like 3-4. What surprised me the most was how difficult the Ipod was to use compared with my previous MP3 player, a Creative Zen Jukebox. There is no way to browse through a playlist or other category, which I missed a lot. I think Apple has a good product, but one that it has brilliantly (and falsely) marketed as being so much better than its competitors.

ipod
i've been using this ipod for two and a half years now, and i just started having slight problems with the headphone jack now. as other people have said, it definitely doesn't fit 15,000 songs-- i have about 13,000 with nothing else on it-- but that's still an awful lot. i've definitely been really happy with this ipod & it's held up to a lot of wear & tear, so no complaints, really. it's heavier & thicker than the newer ones, but totally works just as well.

Best MP3 player available
This is not just a good MP3 player, phone book, notebook and pic viewer. It is also a very compact external hard drive. Oh, yeah you can watch video on it too. The user interface is by far the best among the portable MP3 players. As Steve would say, the user experience is "insanely great".