The first Apple iPods that came out in October 2001 were sized at 4.02” x 2.43” x 0.78” and weighed 6.5 ounces. The later generations became smaller. However, when larger hard disk sizes were launched, the top end iPods became larger again.

On Tuesday, Apple launched their iPod Photo models. I was slightly perturbed that it was around 1mm thicker (sorry for the variance in units), but apart from this had the same dimensions as the high-end 40GB iPod. So, I checked its dimensions: 4.1” x 2.4” x 0.75”, weight 6.4 ounces.

Almost the same as the original iPod, except about 0.1” taller.

What’s more, the current generation of iPods (not sure about the iPod Photo) use slower processors than the original iPods – two 80MHz ARM 7TDMI chips rather than the 90MHz versions in the first models.