Still rocking an iPod Classic? I know I am: although I love my iPod Touch, a part of me just can’t let go of the notion that the true magic of the digital music experience is the ability to carry around, on one pocketable device, more music than you could conceivably listen to in a decade. Picking and choosing which songs and albums to load? What is this, the stone age?
That’s why I still rock my 160GB iPod Classic, which is actually just a few gigs a way from being filled up entirely. Now Toshiba is doing the rounds with a new 1.8-inch drive that is just as thin as the current Classic drives — just 5mm — but goes all the way up to 220GB, while boasting better battery life and a bigger buffer for less skipping.
So: 220GB iPod Classics, coming soon? I don’t really know. I’d say that the Classic line is on its way out: Apple’s committing to flash memory and multitouch these days. But is there a possibility that Apple will continue to crank out the Classic to appeal not to everyday users but to niche listeners like me who want to hold their entire iTunes libraries in the palm of their hands? I doubt it — extreme niche really isn’t Apple’s thing — but maybe.
