Anyone switch from a 5thGen to a 160gb classic?

I have an 80gb and it's nearly full and was considering selling it and getting the 160gb. I mainly use it in my car connected to the alpine HU, so I don't realy care about the cover-show stuff.
Q is, if you did switch do you like it a lot better? Always leery of 1st Gen stuff.

I was in roughly the same position as you about a month ago. I sold my 30 gb gen 5 ipod, which was filled to the brim, and got a 160 gb ipod classic. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed with it. It's significantly thicker and heavier, but at least it still fits in my protective cover. Initially there were some issues in connecting it to my car, but the ipod software updates seem to have fixed that. The processor seems significantly slower than before; the album art display seems to be a little buggy, the play skips when playing songs in apple lossless, and most annoyingly the click wheel is really unresponsive. Right now I'm just hoping that apple will come out with a slew of firmware updates to take care of all this.

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