This puppy’s going to shoot up the meme charts like a Martian lander. My Irish friend John writes to say that Apple has come out of the closet and revealed the oft-rumoured iPod mini (I’m already irked by the small ‘m’) in all of its pastel glory. It’s freakin’ tiny. Check out these photos of it in the hand of some human.
Unfortunately, it’s still hard drive based. This means that when you run around with it, it will still skip. That’s my only complaint about my existing 20 GB iPod Macro. Still, this model will sit snugly in an arm belt, so that might mitigate the skipping problem.
Mind you, it only holds 4 GB. So, I’ll have to trim my 17 GB of songs significantly.
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Hmm, I have 25 gigs of mp3s online and over 40 CD backups. Oh well, I don’t really have any use for an iPod myself, so I guess I don’t have to worry about it 🙂 I suspect the price is prohibitive anyhow, what with us being a single income family now.
The price is completely insane. An extra $50 and you can get the 15 GB iPod. I think the reason it is hard drive based is due to the prohibitive cost of large solid state devices (1 GB flash for a consumer is approx $200). I think a 2 GB device in the $150 bracket would have been killer.
I imagine the price for these will drop quite quickly. This has the feel of Apple looking to the market to help them set the price point, rather than trying to guess at what people will pay. Start high, work your way down…