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Posted at 7:23 AM on Monday 04/7/08 by
Ben
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Apple Store has the refurbished iPod classic 80GB Digital Music/Video Player for $209 + $0 shipping = $209 shipped. This is the latest generation iPod with Cover Flow & other dubious improvements. It has an all-metal design, with 30hour(s) battery life in audio mode. Storage for up to 20,000 songs or up to 100 hours of video. [BizRate]
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    australopithecus - Posted 7:51 am PDT 04/7/08 (1841 Posts)  Report Spam

    classic junk!

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    BubbRubb - Posted 9:43 am PDT 04/7/08 (1276 Posts)  Report Spam

    I see so many refurbished iCrap on here that I think Apple only makes faulty products. Even Phillips doesn't have that many refurbed TVs to sell.

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    Wizard Prang - Posted 9:59 am PDT 04/7/08 (332 Posts)  Report Spam

    If you don't want the "Dubious improvements" of which Ben speaks, they sometimes have the 80GB Gen5.5 for $189 with free shipping. That's cheaper than eBay.

    BTW, "Refurbished" does not always mean "Faulty". Sometimes people return items that they do not want. Apple refurbs are indistinguishable from new product, and come with a one-year factory warranty that you can extend if you wish.

    BubbRubb, that's not a valid comparison. TVs can be repaired quickly and easily. iPods are a little trickier, and it is often quicker to send out a new or refurbed unit to the customer.

    Enough of that. Anyone here found iPods to be unreliable?

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    baltimoron - Posted 10:10 am PDT 04/7/08 (514 Posts)  Report Spam

    Picked up one of these for my nephew for his birthday. It arrived in brand new condition. iTunes is a pain but this program:

    http://handbrake.fr/?article=download

    worked extremely well for converting the VIDEO_TS files to an MPEG-4 file fomat.

    High Rez conversion is painfully slow, Low Rez is just slow but it was pretty cool once it was on the iPod. I did notice that the Low Rez iPod video files take up a lot more room than the same files for the Zune. Check out the handbrake program though. It is a nice open source piece of software.

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    wulfe - Posted 10:21 am PDT 04/7/08 (175 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've had my 30GB for close to 2 years now. I bought it brand new and it's been working great. I use it all the time in my car and during long flights. I'm thinking on upgrading to 160GB since it's running low on storage space. I wonder if I should just get this (80GB) instead?

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