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iPod Mini's... Coming
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*yawns* Wake me when they have something I care about. Namely a 60GB or 80GB iPod. If the iPod mini's get you going more power to you but right now all I care about is more storage so I can store all 30GB of songs, have plenty of room for expansion, and keep my data files on the thing. (That alone takes about about 7GB of space.)
*yawns* Wake me when they have something I care about. Namely a 60GB or 80GB iPod. If the iPod mini's get you going more power to you but right now all I care about is more storage so I can store all 30GB of songs, have plenty of room for expansion, and keep my data files on the thing. (That alone takes about about 7GB of space.)
darn, thatle be just a few days to late to get for my dad as a birthday present 
. Darn Il just have to get him something else
. Darn Il just have to get him something else
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Try using this link
http://www.apple.com/storenews/currentissue/
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Try using this link
http://www.apple.com/storenews/currentissue/
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Wrong. You *can* combine it with the edu discount. I don't know if it's a generally applicable offer, or only for people who have bought through the edu store in the past. But I got an e mail from the edu store with a $30 discount code different from the one that applies to the general store.
Anyway, re: the minis - they're just not that small. Look at the one on the guy's arm in the pictures linked to off the front page. As I have said many times already, regardless of % volume etc. etc., the *practical* difference between an ipod and an ipod mini is zero. Both are easily small enough to fit in a pocket yet neither is small enough to be truly unobtrusive when exercising. In essence, there is nowhere you could take the mini that you could not take the regular, and that is why I don't understand them (the minis) at all.
Wrong. You *can* combine it with the edu discount. I don't know if it's a generally applicable offer, or only for people who have bought through the edu store in the past. But I got an e mail from the edu store with a $30 discount code different from the one that applies to the general store.
Anyway, re: the minis - they're just not that small. Look at the one on the guy's arm in the pictures linked to off the front page. As I have said many times already, regardless of % volume etc. etc., the *practical* difference between an ipod and an ipod mini is zero. Both are easily small enough to fit in a pocket yet neither is small enough to be truly unobtrusive when exercising. In essence, there is nowhere you could take the mini that you could not take the regular, and that is why I don't understand them (the minis) at all.
CF Microdrive
Actually, the idea that the iPod hard drive is a CompactFlash card is absolutely NOT insane. The 4GB Creative MuVo2 has been dissected before , and to the delight of high-res camera buffs, its hard drive was found to simply be a Hitachi 4GB HDD CF card. Can it be UNFATHOMABLE that the iPod Mini uses the same technology? Cornice is the only company which makes non-CF 1-inch microHDDs.
The iPod mini most likely DOES have a CompactFlash microdrive. When you hear "CompactFlash" or "memory card", don't immediately exclude hard drives. Remember, microdrives were CF cards LONG before they became nonremovable media.
"If it's a CompactFlash card, why make it nonremovable?" some of you ask. Consider this: if the media was made removable, could Apple and Creative still sell their players substantially below the retail price of a CF card with the same capacity? No. Making the media nonremovable and hidden away takes away much of the incentive to buy an iPod mini or MuVo2.
Also, as an added incentive not to rip out the 4GB Microdrive at the mini's heart, Apple could have very simply soldered the connecting pins. Easy as that. It makes drive removal that much more difficult.
Actually, the idea that the iPod hard drive is a CompactFlash card is absolutely NOT insane. The 4GB Creative MuVo2 has been dissected before , and to the delight of high-res camera buffs, its hard drive was found to simply be a Hitachi 4GB HDD CF card. Can it be UNFATHOMABLE that the iPod Mini uses the same technology? Cornice is the only company which makes non-CF 1-inch microHDDs.
The iPod mini most likely DOES have a CompactFlash microdrive. When you hear "CompactFlash" or "memory card", don't immediately exclude hard drives. Remember, microdrives were CF cards LONG before they became nonremovable media.
"If it's a CompactFlash card, why make it nonremovable?" some of you ask. Consider this: if the media was made removable, could Apple and Creative still sell their players substantially below the retail price of a CF card with the same capacity? No. Making the media nonremovable and hidden away takes away much of the incentive to buy an iPod mini or MuVo2.
Also, as an added incentive not to rip out the 4GB Microdrive at the mini's heart, Apple could have very simply soldered the connecting pins. Easy as that. It makes drive removal that much more difficult.
Heck no.Originally posted by dho
darn, thatle be just a few days to late to get for my dad as a birthday present
Just be a little creative.
Get a card and put a picture of a mini iPod inside with the words coupon redeeemable on x date.
...or something like that.
Don't let a few days deter you from a present that you want to give. Better to get him something he'll really value and use than a substitute. Trust me, he'll understand and appreciate it.
Sushi
FYI... The Hitachi drive in the iPod mini is not packaged in the CompactFlash housing. It's a raw drive integrated onto a mount on the Mini's logic board. So, tearing open a Mini to get out the HDD for another use would not yield anything but a non-functional raw HDD unit.
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The mini iPods are going to sell like hotcakes in places like Japan were small size, light weight and looks sell.
A regular iPod is way too big to put in a pocket of a business shirt/suit/etc. The min iPod will do much better in that regard.
...ever wonder why flash based players having only 256MB memory costing more than the iPod sell over here in Japan? Size and weight matters to some.
Sushi
And that, is why you don't see the "practical" difference between the two.
The mini iPods are going to sell like hotcakes in places like Japan were small size, light weight and looks sell.
A regular iPod is way too big to put in a pocket of a business shirt/suit/etc. The min iPod will do much better in that regard.
...ever wonder why flash based players having only 256MB memory costing more than the iPod sell over here in Japan? Size and weight matters to some.
Sushi
MicroDrive not CompactFlash. Yes Hitachi does sell this MicroDrive in a CompactFlash formfactor, however, I suspect this is the bare drive wired into the electronics in the iPod mini.
Go ahead open one up, you'll just kill the mini for no reason.
Listen to sushi (that didn't sound right...).
Personally, at the current price point, I'd probably rather have a regular than a mini, since the size doesn't make a difference to me. But I'm not the target market.
In Japan (and some specific markets with similar taste), smaller=better, and fashion sells. The mini is smaller, therefore it is better. Period. And it has colors, making it a more effective fashion statement, therefore it is better. Period.
Call it more money than sense if you want, but the end result is I'm willing to be the'll be a huge market for the mini in Japan. Sony should be very, very scared, since it's similar in size to a minidisc player (perhaps not coincidentally, about the size of a cellphone), but has way, way more capacity.
Personally, at the current price point, I'd probably rather have a regular than a mini, since the size doesn't make a difference to me. But I'm not the target market.
In Japan (and some specific markets with similar taste), smaller=better, and fashion sells. The mini is smaller, therefore it is better. Period. And it has colors, making it a more effective fashion statement, therefore it is better. Period.
Call it more money than sense if you want, but the end result is I'm willing to be the'll be a huge market for the mini in Japan. Sony should be very, very scared, since it's similar in size to a minidisc player (perhaps not coincidentally, about the size of a cellphone), but has way, way more capacity.
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They are perfect for athletic types. The regular iPod is not. My mate is a runner and she wants the Mini and not the regular iPod. 4GB of songs is more than enough for her daily runs. The girls, who happen to be much bigger spenders on Music, love the Mini's, their finish and their colors. I expect many girls will buy more than one to match their various outfits.
They are perfect for athletic types. The regular iPod is not. My mate is a runner and she wants the Mini and not the regular iPod. 4GB of songs is more than enough for her daily runs. The girls, who happen to be much bigger spenders on Music, love the Mini's, their finish and their colors. I expect many girls will buy more than one to match their various outfits.
Actually that would be more insane.
iPod mini is not compatible with the Media Reader or the Mic.
Docked Icon
It seems like apple pays close attention to small destails, like how os x show different icons for the second and third gen ipods when docked. My question is wether the ipod mini's icon is already in Panther "I.E. could we have seen it before it was released like the wireless mice and keyboards" and wether it knows the color. Any body seen one of these bad boys hooked up to a mac?
It seems like apple pays close attention to small destails, like how os x show different icons for the second and third gen ipods when docked. My question is wether the ipod mini's icon is already in Panther "I.E. could we have seen it before it was released like the wireless mice and keyboards" and wether it knows the color. Any body seen one of these bad boys hooked up to a mac?
best buy?
anyone know if best buy is going to carry the minis? And more specfically, if they will have them around this time?
anyone know if best buy is going to carry the minis? And more specfically, if they will have them around this time?