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iPod Mini Ships

Posted by pudge on from the it-is-about-time-now-where's-mine dept.

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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  1. Obligatory How-to-take-it-apart link by Dr.+Smack+PhD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Clearly, the first thing anyone should do with a new gadget is take it apart.
    http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=305 9_0_8_0_C

  2. Mini Ipod Review on WinXP by Sparky9292 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:color breakdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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%