New iPod Mini!!!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by UlTiMaTeP

80 mbit=10 megabytes Tests showed just under 10 (9.7 I believe) I would be using it to dump pictures off my camera, but maximum pc magazine did a review on it and showed that the media adapter is even slower. I will just have to invest in more flash memory. sigh

The firewire adaptor is quite fast. I have used it many a time for large file transfers. It's slower than an internal hard drive, but it's quite fast. Also, the media reader is slow, but rumor has it another company is comming out with one that is faster.

Personally, I'm disapointed. The iPod's price is awful, the HD size is minimal, and just the whole thing underwhelms me. If they just put a smaller capacity, bigger dimensional hard drive in the current shel, they could have sold more for cheap. Now they have another 20th Annaversary Mac & Cube on their hands.

[swando]

apple definately didnt cut down the price enough to make it worth having 11 gigs less space. and they lost the scroll wheel? cmon. the trendy colours dont make up for that.

[Kyle Fenton]

FYI

The new iPod has a 1-inch Hitachi Drive. These things retail for $400, so getting it into a $249 iPod isn't bad.

I personally think they should have stayed with the cheaper 1.8in drive or even cheaper laptop hard drives to cut the cost down to $100 to $150. The original ipod is small enough, it really doesn't need to be smaller.

[UlTiMaTeP]

Originally Posted by JosephM

The firewire adaptor is quite fast. I have used it many a time for large file transfers. It's slower than an internal hard drive, but it's quite fast. Also, the media reader is slow, but rumor has it another company is comming out with one that is faster.

Personally, I'm disapointed. The iPod's price is awful, the HD size is minimal, and just the whole thing underwhelms me. If they just put a smaller capacity, bigger dimensional hard drive in the current shel, they could have sold more for cheap. Now they have another 20th Annaversary Mac & Cube on their hands.

The drive maxes at 10 mb's a sec period... might be "fast" but we are all human and we want somthing faster and better, the media reader is slow, and writes at something like 2 mb a sec, which is the only reason I would buy it to begin with. Also, firewire is pointless when computers come stock with USB 2.0 now, so its time for the ipod to make the jump also.