TechTV First generation iPod Review

[davidsdiego]

Thanks for sharing this video!

I can't believe he said "design flaw"; he was misinformed back in 2001. Part of the reason it was designed on the top is due to SJ revealing the new iPod from his jean pocket. He also added Apple's slogan: "1,000 songs in your pocket.". Who wants that jack sticking on the side of their pocket? Obviously, cases would be designed for the shape of iPod.

[RENZDOGG]

o boy he has got to see a lot more from Apple

[EvilRobotFilms]

WOW! I just put my iPhone 4GS on ebay, I have to have this thing!

[raaaaaaarbert]

LOL who the fuck wants a freaking headphone jack on the side?

[10forRP]

I was in high school when this came out. I had a cheaper MP3 player, but still... Not having to have my discman with me, and having to pick out a CD in the morning before I went to school. Some of my friends would bring a small CD organizer in their backpack and change out CDs throughout the day. Haha brings back memories

[chenpod123]

$399 LOLOL

[lazycr33p]

U can use the 1st gen ipod with Windows u know

[abehammy]

@lazycr33p no you cannot,

[EvilRobotFilms]

@lazycr33p no you can't

[erik4727]

1:00

Beep Beep? What the hell is she thinking?

[rotuledecrisse]

At least they got windows support when they made the second generation because that thing would have been forgotten by then if it didn't.

[oOTheDudeOo]

"This is the first time Apple's made a consumer electronic's product that isn't a Macintosh or a handheld PDA" someone kill this guy...

They had printers, the infamous Newton and the little known Power-CD

[flirtwd]

A lot of tech watchers thought Apple was going to release a pda to compete with Palm. LOL! And Steve Ballmer chided the ipod saying it was overpriced and one could by cds and just burn their shit. Well several years later MS introduced the Zune and a few years after that, like 2011 they discontinued the Zune.

Whose house bitches! Apple's house. Booya!!!

RIP Steve Jobs!!!!

[oOTheDudeOo]

@flirtwd Haven't heard of the Newton? And Balmer laughed at the iPhone not at the iPod. Learn your history.

[flipeurfish]

Beileive give an ipod touch 4g at this time xD

Wtf perfect photo ! Wow the screen is touch !! :0

[skullz841]

Lmfao FireWire. USB 2.0 FTW

[skullz841]

HOLY CHRIST 5 GIGS. my 3rd gen nano has 8 gigs HAHA

[OrangeSodaLover]

wow, the headphone jack on the top is a desing flaw, 10 years later....where is it now? yeah, on the top, know why? so when you have it in your pocket, the headphones come out the pocket and i won't feel awkward in your pants when you have you ipod in your pocket. This dude is a total dumb ass.

[patriot6157]

@OrangeSodaLover wanted to say the same thing man.

[guitarerik93]

0:31 gayest laugh ever 

[shadowloks2292]

10 hour battery life :D lol

[thejeff007]

a 5G hardrive?!!!! WOW

[SpyceySalad]

is it true apple is discontinuing the Classic in september?

[MOSKAR1]

wow. 399$ i got my classic very F.up 80Gb and this 5Gb? wow

[Seantube3]

@MOSKAR1 old times dude , remember 5 years ago that 1 TB was huge and now it's in every computer the same with that :D

[TheRetroZombie]

I miss Tech TV. Fuck G4.

[OhNoNotMyPenis]

cons it used firewire

[Theplacetogo]

News guy: The headphone jack is on the top and makes for an odd shape, just kinda design flaw.

Now almost every mp3 or ipod in the world has it at the top.

[osborl12]

@Theplacetogo That's what I was thinking. Why was he complaining?

[DBH5601]

now if they told you that that was $399 you would think apple was crazy

[technologycrazy]

hahahahaha

[jrcr1]

Ha ha 5gb, myclasdic has 160!

[iover9000]

these newscasters are retards

[rickdillard]

Headphone jack is a design flaw. Haha.

[Aws0medude17]

@illwayz313 dude calm down it's just an opinion

[marqulisis]

@raqib38 it's the first iPod ever stupid

[raqib38]

that aint a ipod

[vb7200]

They should see the iPod touch!

[ynkno13]

What happened to the TechTV bottom logo?

[illwayz313]

Yeah what a fucking jack off waste of sperm. I hope this guy has died a slow and fucking painful death since then because having the headphone jack come out of the top makes it so you can listen to it in your pocket which kicks ass. fuck this blue shirted cunt. I want to kill him. skin him. dry his skin, then use it for toilet paper.

[8ballsix27]

"portable mp3 player"

[jjphel]

@slacker121234 you sound like an asshole. Please take your insufficient thoughts someplace else

[lPigeonl]

@slacker121234 hahaha he does sound gay

[habringerofdoom012]

.org or .com? We'll never know.

[marquista96]

ipod has come so far in 10 years, now, if someone said they didnt know what an ipod was, youd assume their an alien

[PREY4WAR]

Solid State? You're a few years early, sweetheart!

[PREY4WAR]

"For people that don't know. What is it?" Might be kind of important to know if you're doing a segment on it!!!!

[newsflashsweetie]

haha this looks so lame compared to what is out there nowadays

[Frugsaddict]

That piece of crap brought us the beastin ipod touch, iphone, and ipad! Amazing!

[iPodman91531]

@Frugsaddict piece of crap? this thing was 499 bucks in 2001 and was THE BEST mp3 player out there

[rayquazaboi]

see how far they've gone, its like comparing from windows 98 to windows 7

[Roq999]

I purchased a 10 gig second gen iPod and it stopped working 8 months after mild use. I purchased a 30 gig Creative Zen Vision:M for one hundred dollars cheaper and it works to this day, six years later. I have never purchased an Apple product since.

[RollOnToVictory]

@Roq999 odd I've had the opposite experience with apple/other devices. My second generation ipod still works after putting up with three zunes and a SanDisk and a Sony device.

[gordononeill1012]

@Roq999 i would recommend trying again

[mein2d]

It has to buffer? lol

[Ethan9unicyclelist]

why did apple change from fire wire to what they have now?

[EndOfTheW0rld]

@Ethan9unicyclelist USB ended up becoming the standard. So they either went USB or dealt with compatability issues with Firewire. If you notice, not many computers have Firewire ports these days. The most you'll see if one. If any at all.

[computerkid1416]

@Ethan9unicyclelist USB is better and newer than FireWire.

[sandovezmctare]

@computerkid1416 back when the 1st gen iPod came out, USB 1.1 was the only USB around, which ran at a painfully slow 11Mb/s, versus Firewire 400 being 400Mb/s.

Nowadays USB 2.0 is 480Mb/s, so now it's better, but USB used to suck.

[5034329573]

how can it be better to have the headphones stick the side? now i see how dumb everyone was

[Furetgarcon]

5 gbs of harddrive its old outdated, and i can slap on a custom firmware on it and do w/e i want! Wow! Where can iget one of these little buggers >:D

[Apoc897]

Holy FUCK when are these coming out?

[jason34587]

@Apoc897 11 years ago

[mpollux2]

WOW is that a PowerBook G4???!!!???!!!

[believeinworldpeace]

thats one fat i pod right there XD

[BrandonScott1001]

I think that this is amazing that this hard drive was half the size of the iBook G3's hard drive!!

[veilx]

"So this is a solid state drive?" "YES, the hard drive has a 20 minute buffer zone".

I think the chick has more tech knowledge than the dude.

[tomyferland1234]

3.99$ :O

[theJesticesshow]

we are so brain washed

[PussyRanger]

BEEP BEEP

[jjphel]

In 2001 I was only 4 years old and I strongly remember my Dad buying this and me asking him "Dad what is this thing" he replied "this is going to change a lot of things"......Look how far we have come in terms.

[IamMeUareYou]

@jjphel fair play to him. you must b like, 13/14 now.im 13

[MegaHolymoly]

@jjphel So you're only like fucking 13 or 14...?

[jjphel]

@MegaHolymoly yes im 13 why?

[TheTNP1776]

@jjphel only 4 yrs old? damn lol

[ojideagu]

@jjphel You were 4 in 2001? What are you, a sperm? lol

[NateVarmac]

"[The headphone jack] isn't on the side, just a simple design flaw." And 10 years (to be fair, 9) later, it's still not on a side! LOL

[siblilngs101]

3:36 "the battery life is 10 hours" thats nothing compared to the ipod tough 4g which has 40 HOURS!

[alvaro1768]

@siblilngs101 what a fucking lie

[siblilngs101]

@alvaro1768 if you listen to just music it does 40 hours of audio playback

[eltocliousus]

@siblilngs101

Whoa, a product in 2010 is better than a product in 2001?

Mind, Blown.

[siblilngs101]

@eltocliousus auctally very shocking

[TheRoss1357]

OMG 5 gigs!!!!! That's like a million !!

[muffa08]

wow 5 gig harddrive as an addition to my mac... what a big help ;)

[Tonia682]

@ItsMrBigfence I agree. What was he smoking!?!?!??!

[magnified101]

why is she beeping? is that something "music devices" did in the pre-historic times?

[PlaneVFootball]

399 hahaaaa

[iAppleStop]

apple has come so far steve jobs BEAST

[1930modelaguy]

a reference to pcmcia cards. wow, I forgot how long ago 2001 was.

[420allday67]

beep beep shut the fuck up

[kooldaug]

its funny they started off so thick and now so thin. Its almost like apple just stuffed loads of pointless shit inside it at first to fill it up making it look like it has alot in it. Look at say the nano 5th gen though and this beast is like 10 times as thick. Still we wouldn't have the great ipods of today without this, so congrats apple.

[AdamRan]

@kooldaug IT has a 1.8" harddrive in thats what takes up the room, modern ones use flash memory chips

[brandtaylor93]

@AdamRan not the clasic

[gagaindy]

That mother fucker is HUGE

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[retaredjoe]

lol thats an ipod looks like a cheap game

[KillerFromGod]

I remember being the cool kid on the block with this big old brick lmao

[TheStopMotionCinema]

i wish i could show them the new 6th gen ipod nano

[SnapCrackleJared]

wow, i am so gonna trade in my 8GB 4th Generation Ipod Touch for this

[thewizard773]

looks pretty bad compared to my 16 gig ipod nano 5g

[xrtsplash]

i noticed something. the quality isnt the best, therefor it seems like this review was made back when the ipod was first released. and he had a macbook pro, or air. so this review has to be no more than a few years old. i may be wrong

[thewizard773]

@xrtsplash it was made in 2001 lol it is bound to be bad quality

[AceTracer]

@xrtsplash This review was made in 2001. He was using a Titanium PowerBook G4 (aka "TiBook"). I had one.

[vharvey27]

Yea that's why u don't work for apple. Ur Microsoft brain is a design flaw

[Pinwormx]

Beep beep beep.... *bitch slap*

[CelestialStarshine]

I remember my friend wating in line for hours to get one of these. Stopped working within a few months lol

[TheLololol111]

10 hours of battery... WOW!

[TooLateTomorrow]

9 people still use CD players.

[geunsjl]

@TooLateTomorrow please don't call them people:(

[nvimpelen]

I just LOVE how he complains about the headphone plugXD

[JakesTechBox]

Lol techlive dot com isnt up aanymore

[whatashow3445]

I'm commenting with my iPod Touch 4G, which is a little over half the price of that iPod! They've evolved from just music to music, videos, apps and games, cameras, email, internet, and Facetime! Well, that us the power of waiting!

[shmikens]

9 people have a zune

[TECHBUGTv]

@shmikens hahaha

[ipodtester1]

399 for that piece of shit hahahahahhahahahahahahahhahhah­ahahahahahahahaahahahahhaahahh­ahahahahahhahahhahahahahahahah­ahhaahhahaahahahahahahhahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahaa

[jordan123901]

@ipodtester1 the ipod was the best mp3 in 2001

[drrobertoboogie97]

Whoever would want the headphone plug on the side?

[Yamcha67]

lol what an idiot

[helleryeller11]

I want one.......... Looks like I have to dig out my old mac lol

[Typewriter102]

Better if it was located on the side? WTH :D

[pnoozi]

Wow, that lady really impressed me with how knowledgeable she was. Usually female reviewers are completely clueless.

[r2hMisTaKeN]

its not a harddrive. is there moving parts in the device? no. 5 GB flash drive

[mrwellywonka]

@r2hMisTaKeN it's not a flash drive it's a regular HDD

[r2hMisTaKeN]

@mrwellywonka oh so there is a disc spinning inside? would suck if u were in a car and u it a bad bump and dropped it. there goes ur ipod..

[mrwellywonka]

@r2hMisTaKeN haha, yeah it's a spinning disc.  I had one and as it was dying you could feel the disk grating and making noise.

[r2hMisTaKeN]

@mrwellywonka thats sickkkkkkk

[AdamRan]

@r2hMisTaKeN Yes it was a harddrive back then (1.8"), not flash.

[djcruella]

Woohoo! 5 Gig HD!

[93ally001]

these ppl are disgusting



[dragonquest20]

2001 first i pod

[805fillmore]

i guess all the pro jukebox people died

[sakthip1988]

listen to the guy at bout 31 sec! gives a weird laugh!!! n whats with the blonde n the beep beep???

[KingFelixful]

Best mp3 player

[gperme1993]

If someone asked you what an iPod was today, you'd probably assume they had just stepped out of a DeLorean.

[BrandonScott1001]

@gperme1993 That comment made me want to watch that trilogy !!

[ronmann606]

"The hard drive is as thick as a PCMCIA card" times they are a changin

[Rodolfsk8]

what do they mean with the buffer??

[ronmann606]

@Rodolfsk8 The buffer is solid state memory in between the HD and the output. The buffer is shock proof so if the harddrive skips from shock, you won't here it. Also, the HD read speed is much higher than the output listening speed so the HD can fill the buffer with upcoming songs then shut off to save the battery.

[Tonia682]

@Rodolfsk8

A buffer is designed to prevent jerky play-back when streaming content by detecting how much it needs to download in advance in order to maintain a smooth play-back. I had a portable CD player I took to the gym in 2001 that only had 20-30 sec of buffering and that was a big selling point. Without the buffering if you were moving the music would be herky jerky. At that time 20 minutes was unheard of.

[sporefreak105]

Lol "so what is the iPod, for those who dont know?"

[MadMaroProjects]

Why do they look like two speaking oranges?

[1ohtaf1]

lol i bet they didnt think how big it is today

[Redboiipod]

headset jack on the side??? if that happened today, everyone would hate apple

[silliepooh]

I still have that Ipod. Yes, I bought it a couple of months after it came out.

[lokkentoons]

People don't realize that the technology for sale, right now, is completely out of date. We have within our capacity to make a 2TB SD card. Why on Earth would you think that paying more than $100 for an 8gb of anything would be worth it? Of course you want to buy something sooner or later. But people are stupid with their money sometimes too. Also, I have never bought an Apple product, until they open up, and get their mind out of the closed network mentality, I am not their customer.

[ronmann606]

That comment is stupid start to finish, your a joke.

[ontheaction1]

The battery life... 10 Hours

WOW

Yea lol

[erik4727]

Back that shvt up

[getexcitedd]

that chunky piece of poop is $399 !?!?!

[lilyphilia84]

She pulls a Geroge Costanza :)

[camcamomille95]

"For people who don't know what an iPod is..."

Now you got to live under a rock not to know that.

[genarrowful]

@camcamomille95 this was before the ipod actualyy came out dumbass

[CyberSpectrumND]

@camcamomille95 It was 2001 bro, iPod didn't really take off until around 2003 or 2004 is when it got real popular.

[camcamomille95]

@CyberSpectrumND Goshhh, I meant that it's weird to hear "For people who don't know what an iPod is..." in 2010 since NOW you have to live under a rock not to know what it is. Of course I know that back in that time people didn't know that. P.s. : I'm a girl. xD

[camcamomille95]

It's so thick !!!

[cassinoa99]

@camcamomille95 thats what she said. lol

[PalkiaLegends]

$400 for a 5gb music player? Lol, compare that to today where we have

a 160gb ipod for only $250. One day we'll have an ipod that has 320gb at a cheaper price.

[boom100060]

@PalkiaLegends only.... damn its a cheap hdd with an audio out.... have you ever thought about that? You can buy an mp3 player with 4gb (which is more than enough for music) for about 35$!!!

[guitarerik93]

hahaa ive always wanted my headphone jack on the side!!!!

[Ayowta]

Headphone jack on the top–a design flaw?? Having it on the side would suck a throbbing erection!

[InsertChanneNameHere]

"This is the power supply."......."How does it work?"- I loled

[RyogaVee]

@InsertChanneNameHere HAHAHAHAH!

[Winterbyte]

@InsertChanneNameHere No you didn't; you lol'd.

[gherinquad]

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

[danmiddleton7893]

why would you ever want the headphone jack on the side :S

[underfan15]

u know, its crazy, people w/ iTouches tend to take it for granted, but then, when u see this video, it puts everything in perspective

[fingernerv]

Oh Shit I Got One THinking I Was All Hard

[BrandonScott1001]

haha, if you asked, what is the iPod, then people will probably make fun of you (if your a kid) It is neat!

[colbjay99]

beep beep beep

[applekidd123]

399 for that pile of crap

[parentaladvisory121]

0:34 Gym Pouch?

[appleAddict240872]

@parentaladvisory121 im guessing he meant a duffel bag or something...

[applefanatic414]

Umm he wanted the headphone Jack on the side???  It's so much better on the top if it is in your pocket.

[greenpantaloons]

5gb thats shit

[AppleTechReviews]

"The battery..... 10 hours!"

"WOW"

3:38

[cortezofelpaso97]

Sometimes change is good

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