Astute readers will note that our friends over at Playlist will recall that the classic iPod — you remember, the ones frontin’ the 80GB and 160GB hard drives — “could be sluggish when drawing artwork.” They surmised that perhaps the spinning drives (instead of the flash drives the rest of of us) slowed down the process.
However, about 10 days ago, Apple released another cryptic iPod software update that purported to fix this problem. Did it?
The brainiac Mr. Breen took it for a spin and found some interesting results:
The slow screen redraws disappeared and the click wheel no longer paused. The interfaces of the iPod classic and 3G nano remain slower than the interfaces of their most recent predecessors—the fifth-generation iPod and second-generation iPod nano. But while slower than these earlier models, the current iPods respond consistently rather than slowing down intermittently as they once did.
So there you have it, folks. Your iPod classic now transitions as nicely as everyone else’s.
