Update: if you do NOT use Coverflow to select an album for playback, the battery draining bug will not occur.

After the 1.0.2 firmware fix there still seemed to be a lot of negative feedback about menu sluggishness, battery drain and the sort

Cover flow is a nice concept, but it adds to the battery drain in a big way, so I've had to avoid using it

marginal battery draining features like Zune's wifi unless you really think that those feature are important to you.

marginal battery draining features like Zune's wifi unless you really think that those feature are important to you.

I only address these issues first b/c

ive dropped it many times with no case on it and it works great still not as

I received this as a requested Christmas gift and was very much looking forward to having an easily portable drive that could play my CD collection at home as well as at work with docking stations, or, wherever I chose with the headphones.

Works as it should and looks brand new.

ive dropped it many times with no case on it and it works great still not as

I received this as a requested Christmas gift and was very much looking forward to having an easily portable drive that could play my CD collection at home as well as at work with docking stations, or, wherever I chose with the headphones.

Works as it should and looks brand new.

The perfect i pod for people with a lot of music and videos.

Apple 80 GB iPod classic (Black)I still remember my first iPod