The guys over at the legendary iSuppli have performed their teardown analysis service on a brand new iPod Classic.

According to iLounge, iSuppli has rated the unit as a "stopgap" generation, the iPod Classic lacking advanced features such as Wi-Fi and a touch screen while retaining a traditional hard drive. “Apple’s continuation of the iPod model without adding new features suggests a stopgap measure necessitated by lack of time to develop an HDD-based touch iPod,” said Chris Crotty, senior analyst, consumer electronics, for iSuppli. “Apple may not have had time to develop an HDD-based touch-screen iPod before the 2007 holiday season.”

The iSuppli teardown report estimated material costs for the iPod classic to equal US$127 for an 80 gigabyte unit and US$190 for the 160 gigabye version with US$78 and US$140 being used to purchase the hard drive. These estimates exclude expenses such as research and development, software, manufacturing and marketing. iSuppli has estimated that the 80 gigabyte model's estimated cost is 11.2% lower than that of the previous 30 gigabyte model, despite the ample storage increase.

iSuppli has estimate that Apple will ship 3.1 million iPod Classic units in 2007 and 3.5 units in 2008.

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