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hey i'm donald bell for cnet.com give me a second first look or maybe even a third first look at this point at the Apple iPod Classic this guy is still around Apple barely talks about this old Grampa anymore but you can still buy in for $249 and it gets you 160 gigabytes of capacity which is far more than any other iPod that Apple offers so it's a great value when it comes down to price per gigabyte of storage you can fit up to 40,000 songs on here 200 hours of video if you want to carry everything with you this is the iPod to get it's not the most stylish thing out there right now but there's a lot going for it that people don't give it credit for first of all the click wheel design here is probably the most ingenious interface Apple has come up with yet no one's been able to get anything simpler or more intuitive than this so the nice big face of the iPod here allows a lot of room for the click wheel making it very easy to control another great thing about this whole design is that is still using that great old 30 pin connection on the bottom I think that's a plus because that means every accessory you'd ever want for this thing has already been made and you can probably get them dirt cheap so you'll speaker docks accessory cables for your car a lot of great stuff that's already made for this design of the iPod that you're not going to find with the Lightning connection at least not yet so what's the downside well as great as this iPod is there's nothing about this design that is attached to everything that Apple is doing right right now that people are excited about which is iOS you're going to get iOS on something like the iPod Touch the iPad iPad Mini iPhone of course that's not tied into the iPod Classic you're not going to get apps on here you're not going to get the latest and greatest games you get support for music playback video playback podcast photos there's a few games on here plenty of ways to be entertained but most of what you're paying for here is a great time tested design and a ton of capacity so there you go that's the Apple iPod Classic for cnet.com i'm donald buh