Today we start a new series on World of Apple. The Bloggers Edition will be a collection of posts over the next few months written in a blogging fashion with the aim of making an opinion rather than communicating news. With the addition of the Bloggers Edition Series we welcome a new writer John. Be nice now.

Can the new iPod video stand up to the durability of the earlier models? I take it on a head to head test with the older models.

Overall I have had at least one of every model iPod which I have to admit is a little stupid, but I have noticed something, going towards the more recent iPod releases. They scratch a lot easier than earlier models. Apple has been sued by many angry iPod nano owners which has been noted about because they are scratch prone and all apple did was include a flimsy cloth case, which can even scratch the iPod. They also did this with the new video iPod. I got my video iPod the week after it was released, of which I had to trade 4 iPods in to get it and I listened to it on the train ride back from the city, where the Apple reseller I got it from is located, and I noticed one thing, I had gotten off the train and got into my car when I noticed a scratch. I was infuriated because it was in the case the whole time and it was in my pocket with nothing else in it and I was babying it. Naturally when I got home I tried rubbing it out, using iPod scratch remover, which didn’t work. I eventually got over it and bought an agent eighteen case, which did the protecting job nicely, but then I noticed more scratches under the light. I read Apple’s forums up and down and I heard bad and good things about brasso. So I decided to try it because there was a can of it in the garage. I followed a step by step website I found on Google, which was for a nano but the video is basically the same outside makeup. The gentleman on the site said it took him somewhere around three hours, so I wasn’t discouraged and started. At first it looked like it was working. I worked for four hours on it then let it dry overnight before doing anything, and in the morning I woke up and it was SCRATCHED MORE! I couldn’t believe it! So now all I have to say to people who are trying to use brasso to wipe away scratches on their iPod are taking a risk, not a very good risk, because you can cause more harm to your iPod if you do not do it correctly.