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8.2
18 reviews

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8.0
Jonathon Jonathon

I think that the 4 discrete touch buttons were an interesting tangent before the ubiquitous click wheel came around. The way the buttons lit up in red was so cool and unnecessary and really captured the essence of apple product opulence. It was really neat that there were no "clicking"...

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9.0
egordin egordin

Its difficult to rate this product given how old it is, but my review is for it relative to other devices at the time of purchase.

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10
ryantrevisol ryantrevisol

When i was in college, a guy with whom I would later share many classes with plopped down next to me in Business Writing I with white earbuds in and a thick white-and-chrome gadget. I had seen the first and second generation iPod and hadn't really thought too much about them. My music was...

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10
kierkegaard kierkegaard

I leave here a tribute to my trusty iPod that seems committed to outlast my most reliable Walkman that worked relentlessly back in the 90's.

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9.0
chewy95118 chewy95118

The touch buttons, they worked when they liked. This was an ok iPod, the four buttons, oh fun they didn't want to work. It was a good product and at the time had a hard drive the same size as my computer. It played things well.

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10
trexlyon trexlyon

I truly believe this is the best music player of all the iPods. The scroll wheel is by far the most sensitive and responsive. Having the select buttons separate from the wheel prevents accidentally selecting something while scrolling. And the buttons are also extremely sensitive, unlike the...

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