Man, I was just thinking about buying a mini, too. Guess I’ll wait a bit and see what people say about the nano.
I’m sure stores will have Mini closouts. Clubmac has 4gig for $194 and 6gig for $244 (tho I think that is pretty much the old price)
Amazon has them for $190 and $240
Brian
I’ve heard that flash memory is actually slower to access than a hard drive. Is that true? If not, I’ll definitely be waiting until Christmas or so, when Creative and iRiver and them put out their versions of a multi-gig flash-based player.
I actually did wait for the announcement before doing the trade in. Grrr, I was hoping it would be something good. Nano is a horrible name. What Apple should do is dub the Nano as the mini, and rename the mini to “ipod for girls”
So anyway, I’m now the owner of a 60GB ipod, with a color screen. The recycling actually went a lot smoother than I expected, and they didn’t even bug me about the extended warranty - I decided not to buy it since I have until the 11th month, 29th day to do so. If my ipod is still in pretty good shape by then, I’ll pick it up.
I really like the new screen on it. The album artwork feature is nice, except it does NOT want to cooperate too well. Half the images I load on it don’t show up at all. I still prefer the old button interface - having to actually push down on the buttons is annoying, and has a good potential to break, and it’s just too weird having the buttons on top of the wheel.
By coincidence, a new version of itunes came out yesterday, and I didn’t get ANYWHERE with it because it requires quicktime 7, and quicktime 7 refuses to install properly…I wonder if using itunes 4.8 has anything to do with my art problems?
Finally! an Apple product that I like! I think I’ll be getting the 2gig in black.
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…
Yeah, the iPod Nano is the first iPod that seriously has my attention. It’s small, but not TOO small (the Shuffle is cool, but I fear that I would lose it, and I want to be able to control the song selection). The Nano is BEAUTIFUL, very compact, has a good amount of storage, and a long battery life. I think I’m in love!
As the Beatles would have said if they owned iPods.
Witness this thread. iPods are delicate toys. The Mini is more delicate. Now we have the iPod Nano. Coming soon to an Apple Store near you: The iPod Angstrom. Yes indeed, a fully functioning iPod that is roughly the size of a male spermatazoa. Batteries not included. 
This thing reminds me of the very sexy but amazingly delicate Motorola Razr cel phone. At some point, you have a collision between technical miniturazation and the rugged use and abuse said mini device is exposed to. When you reach that moment, you have created a device more delicate than the uses it is intended for.
I call Built In Obsolesence. These are too lightweight and too thin-skinned and entirely too delicate to adequately protect the spinning platter hard drive that stores the data. More crashes ( see the OP :dubious: ), more lost data, more failures, more replaced HDD’s with a warranty or insurance deductable. One cannot jog, bike, run, jiggle and joggle without some reasonable padding and outer protection.
Coupled with the fact that increasingly iTunes is so pirate-sensitive that it’s highly difficult to burn out MP3 or AAF songs to more than one recognized device, I can easily see folks buying an iPod Nano and uploading all their stuff. Then the HDD dies, and you get another HDD. THAT HDD has a different serial # and internal ID code than the original iPod Nano HDD. The iTunes software will see that it is not the usual exporting device and will refuse to allow the user to export.
Think that’s impossible? Check out the bands- such as Dave Matthews Band- whose new CD cannot even be exported to an iPod using iTunes as it exists right now. Weird but not unexpected. If one has to replace a damaged HDD on these new devices with increased regularity, then before I buy one I’d ask a Mac Genius at a store what happens when a new HDD with a new ID # is installed and how iTunes will see that new HDD and if it will refuse to export to said iPod.
It looks sexy cause it’s made by Apple. That doesn’t make it hearty or durable. That just makes it sexy.
Cartooniverse, owner of two Apple computers but no iPod for just that reason.
Cartooniverse, big flaw in your logic. The iPod nano is NOT hard drive based, it uses flash memory. Yes, 4 gugs of flash memory. I think Apple realized that a lot of people used the mini (as oppossed to the shuffle) for things like jogging and worknig out, and it was causing hard drive problems. But, they complained that the shuffle was to osmall, adn they still wanted to be able to control playlists and such. So, a compromise. Basic style of mini, yet flash based like the shuffle so it will last longer.
Although I am reminded of this.
-Blink-
Um. Flaws, you say? Perhaps you were being generous. No logic at all, if it’s a flash drive.
<----slinks off. Well…shit…it looked like an iPod. Feelin’ like a real :wally
“Scratch the itch…” That is too funny.
I said to my fiance last night that I think the nano is neat. She (having had her year old iPod crash twice) went on an anti-apple rant of biblical proportions. She wants the older line perfected before they start coming out with new stuff. Something about Apple’s iPod customer service inspires hatred in even the gentle souls out there.
AndyPolley–owner of a 4gen 40gig iPod that’s about 8 months old. I baby it, and I’ve had no problems at all.