u/ipodsurgeon

Pink 7th gen iPod classic with a purple back.🩷 256gb!🎶

Apple badly needed a hit, and another beige box with slightly better specs wasn't going to change anything.

Steve Jobs and Jony Ive took a much bigger swing. The iMac was rounded, translucent and Bondi Blue. You could recognize it from across a room, which was unusual at a time when most computers looked like office equipment.

The handle on top was especially clever. The iMac was a heavy desktop machine, so the handle was never really about portability. It made the computer feel approachable. People understood immediately where to touch it and how to engage with it.

That friendly exterior took serious work behind the scenes. Apple had to rethink plastics, colors, tooling and manufacturing. Because the case was translucent, even the internal parts had to look orderly. The design team wasn't brought in at the end to make the machine prettier. Design shaped how the entire product got built.

The choices inside were just as bold. The floppy drive was gone, familiar ports disappeared and USB became the standard. Plenty of critics predicted disaster. Instead, Apple sold around 800,000 iMacs by the end of 1998, cemented its comeback and kicked off a run of products that reshaped the company.

Anyone building a physical product can take something from this. Good design isn't a coat of paint applied at the end. It reaches into engineering, manufacturing, usability, marketing and the feeling someone gets when they pick up the finished object.

A lot of today's products are beautifully made and strangely forgettable. Phones are nearly identical glass slabs. Laptops are silver rectangles. Cars are becoming large touchscreens surrounded by bodywork. Appliances have shed their buttons, their character and in some cases their basic ease of use.

The iMac proved people will form a real attachment to a well-designed piece of technology. Nearly three decades later, physical products could use a little more of that courage and a little less gray. The hockey-puck mouse, though, can stay in 1998.

#TechHistory #ProductDesign #IndustrialDesign

I always fancied having one when I was a kid. Unfortunately our financial conditions were not that great back then.

Now that I have adult money, thought of spending it on somethings that we couldn’t afford back then.

This one you see here is a flash modded 6.5/7th generation. Upgraded it to a 128 GB (flash modded with dual SD adapter) and 2500 mAh battery. The firmware used is of the original 120 GB. Apart from the click wheel I have upgraded the entire body to give it a new look.

When I went down the rabbit hole researching about the places I could get one, I was amazed by the demand iPods carry even today.

Facebook market place is the best place to get hands on an old one at a cheap rate and then you can get the body and other tech online to give it a new look!

I got this iPod around the time it first came out and it was shared between my dad and I. Once he handed it down to me a few years ago, I was so excited but came to find the hard drive was busted and the iPod was practically rendered useless.

After 2 years of contemplating whether I should get it fixed or sell it for parts, I finally said “fuck it” the other day and took it in for repair.

It’s loaded up with a 128gb SSD and better than ever before! I also made a carry pouch to clip on my belt when I’m out and about.

I love my iPods so much and I’m so glad I finally got it repaired!

I ordered a modded 7th Gen iPod Classic, but unexpectedly I found a 6th Gen Classic (80GB) with a Bose Portable Dock for $135.

The Bose dock is in very good condition, but the iPod itself was a bit of a hit-or-miss. I was mainly worried about the battery. When I first got it, the battery indicator was going up and down strangely. However, after doing a complete restore, the indicator seems to be working normally. I’m still not 100% sure about the battery’s actual condition.
For now, I’m waiting for the modded 7th Gen to arrive. Once I receive it, I’ll decide what to do. If this 6th Gen continues to work well, I might return the 7th Gen and keep this one, mainly because of the Bose dock. Otherwise, the 7th Gen will be my daily driver and I’ll keep the 6th Gen as a secondary iPod for the Bose dock.
See my Modest collection also guys.

ipodrepairclinic Dodger iPod - iPod Video 5.5 Generation
256 GB We can do all team colors

My friend’s daughter has an HMD Barbie flip phone that’s locked, and she doesn’t remember the passcode. We tried the online troubleshooting tips, but there’s no option to factory reset it from the lock screen.
We were able to boot it into Fastboot Mode (see photo), but the bootloader is locked and we’re not sure what to do next. We also wondered if connecting it to a computer might help.
Has anyone successfully reset or recovered one of these phones? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I got my first Macintosh when they came out in 1984. It meant the world to me. I’ve had lots of Macs since then. Yesterday I bought another original 128k Macintosh, model M0001. I am in love. 💕

this is my mint 6th gen in Tiffany Blue. have the original box and everything for it.

finding info about Colorware iPods is fairly difficult outside of period-correct website publications. any other Colorware owners here? post pics in the comments!

First mod, 60GB 5th gen. Swapped to a thin back, 2000MAh battery, and iFlash solo.

https://youtu.be/J4G-cVK7Pcs

Just finished up an iPod repair for a customer that had been sitting dead for years.

Ended up being a lot more than just a battery — the original motherboard had severe water damage, so I had to swap in a replacement logic board and clean up the inside before it would boot again.

Always kind of satisfying bringing these old iPods back instead of seeing them get tossed. A lot of them still have real memories tied to them.

Anyone else still working on iPods in 2026? What’s been your toughest repair lately?