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iPod Mini Ships
dave at hostwerks writes "The iPod Mini is now shipping. The number of pre-ordered units was about 100,000. CBS News has a good write-up as well as an accompanying piece they ran on the Saturday evening news report here in the U.S."
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According to the Montley Fool the color not sold out was silver which would indicate either the color was not as popular or Apple did not produce the same number of each color Mini iPod.
It is interesting to note that when the color iMacs were introduced, vendors were required to purchase them in lots that included one of each color. This draw the ire of some Apple resellers who were stuck with unpopular colors while they could not order only the most popular ones.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Clearly, the first thing anyone should do with a new gadget is take it apart.5 9_0_8_0_C
http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=30
I've had my ipod mini for about four days now. I have the blue one. I sync it with my WinXP machine.
I've filled it with mp3's of various bitrates from Kazaa (all legal music of course) and it hasn't had a problem playing them.
The first thing that strikes me is that it is really small and really lightweight. It's only $50 less than the 15GB one but this one is way better than anything iRiver puts out for working out at the gym.
It also has a fun name that tune game where it plays one of your songs and then has you pick from four tunes that appears on the screen. It's pretty fun to get familiar with your entire music collection that way.
The mini's also have (finally) a star rating system, so you can rate your songs as you are listening to them.
One caveat: It does not work with USB 1.1. The older ipods can sync with 1.1 and 2.0. You'll have to either buy a USB2.0 card or a firewire card to sync on a USB 1.1 machine.
Posting AC - you can guess why.
M9160LL/A (silver) - 13.62%
M9437LL/A (gold) - 0.03%
M9436LL/A (blue) - 37.25%
M9435LL/A (pink) - 48.12%
M9434LL/A (green) - 0.98%
Color is not the only difference. The Mini is much smaller, much lighter, and the physical interface is better. The four horizontal buttons on the full sized iPod are over sensitive and less convenient than the older style "buttons" next to (older iPods) or on the dial (the Mini). I visited an Apple store over the weekend and checked out the full sized and mini iPod.
"Lame." - CmdrTaco's response to the iPod introduction.
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HOW!!!!! I have taken appart the iPod 9 times its SO simple to do once you get the case appart which takes 3 minutes cause of the clips
It is not just Pop Science. Earlier in this list is an item moderated "insightful" that links to a site to tell you how to take apart the iPod Mini. If you actually read the linked article, you see that the guy destroyed it in the process. How "insightful".