iPod Classics are cranky

Looks like the quality control folks at Apple won’t be getting a hefty Christmas bonus this year, considering the glitches encountered first on the recently released iPod Touch as well as the iPod Classic. There are already a fair amount of reports surfacing on the Net, reporting various problems such as iTunes locking up machines running on Windows XP whenever the iPod Classic is connected as well as taking an extremely long time to eject the said iPod. Other gremlins in the machine include random crashes, lockups, and rebooting. Guess the old rule-of-thumb still holds true today – never purchase version 1.0 of anything new. Oh, and just in case you want to know how long it takes to fill up 160GB of space on your new iPod? Approximately 10 hours – USB 3.0 definitely can’t come any sooner.