mini ipod?

[fondie]

latest news on uk apple site :-

Apple Announces iPod mini
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs used his Macworld keynote speech to unveil iPod mini, the smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs. iPod mini for Mac and Windows will be available from the Apple Store UK in April for a suggested selling price of £199 (inc VAT)* in a choice of silver, gold, pink, blue or green.

[Allen]

LOL! £199 inc is just too much!

Look at the size difference though:

[Jiff Lemon]

Yup, was interested in this until I saw the UK price.

Got a mate going over to the states soon, and with exchange rates as they are, you can get the 40gig for £275.

[Comic Guy]

I've got the 40gb for xmas and think it's great....
Mini looks good and looks to be a good price, compaired to the ipod.
1000 songs is about 60 ish album or cd's
this is 60 hrs of music 2 and half days.
Lets hope the battery is better than the storys on the ipod (no problem with mine YET)

[fondie]

excluding vat, which you can't really blame on apple :-

£138 in the us
£170 in the uk

though it's not ideal, the difference isn't as big as lots of you make out, and as to the price compared to the standard ipods, what did you expect? to pay 4/15th's of the 15gb version? the cost of storage spice isn't directly proportional to apple either, nor is the entire cost of the ipod tied up in the storage media alone, minaturisation costs money!

an ipod mini would suit my needs better than a regualr ipod would, i don't need to be able to store 40gb of music, the size of the regular ipod compared to the small 512mb solid state players you can get has always put me off.

don't get me wrong, i'd like to pay as little as possible, i'd like to pay the us price rather than the uk one, but in comparison to other 'similar' products i don't think the price they have announced is particularly unreasonable.

[Stoo]

well, £200 is certainly better than £250, and about what I thought they'd be..

[Gordy]

excluding vat, which you can't really blame on apple :-

£138 in the us
£170 in the uk

though it's not ideal, the difference isn't as big as lots of you make out, and as to the price compared to the standard ipods, what did you expect? to pay 4/15th's of the 15gb version? the cost of storage spice isn't directly proportional to apple either, nor is the entire cost of the ipod tied up in the storage media alone, minaturisation costs money!

an ipod mini would suit my needs better than a regualr ipod would, i don't need to be able to store 40gb of music, the size of the regular ipod compared to the small 512mb solid state players you can get has always put me off.

don't get me wrong, i'd like to pay as little as possible, i'd like to pay the us price rather than the uk one, but in comparison to other 'similar' products i don't think the price they have announced is particularly unreasonable.

The difference is quite big , I can get one shipped over from the US , pay vat and still save money which is crazy

[Allen]

The difference is quite big , I can get one shipped over from the US , pay vat and still save money which is crazy

Or if you're lucky it could skip through customs and you'd save even more money!

[Gordy]

hehe true , and you will get it before april unlike the EU/UK ,all in all the UK got screwed

[Stoo]

so if you qualify for the educational discount you'll get about 10% off so it'd be about £180.. I'd have thought that £150 would have been the killer price for one.. oh well..

[steve threlfall]

LOL! £199 inc is just too much!

Look at the size difference though:

wow, the normal ipod is tiny anyway though

[Ethos]

Too expensive though... again your paying for the size / look as with the ipod

[Jiff Lemon]

Actually thinking of getting one of these instead of the 40 gigger. NOT at the UK price of course..... £135 is soooooo much more appealing!

Can't justify spending an extra £200 to carry around empty disk space - 4 gig would probably accomadate my entire MP3 collection, and even if it didn't, its no hardship to move files too and from it.

[pickers]

Jiff, you'll find that your MP3 collection will always grow, and unfortunately the capacity of your iPod mini won't. It really is a pain to move stuff on and off, it is so much easier to be able to chuck it in the dock and autosync your whole collection. I'd buy the 15Gb iPod, it'll cost you about £30 more and you get 11Gb extra, plus it really isn't that much oh a difference size wise to compensate for the difference in capacity

[atifds9]

But the Ipod mini is just so much cooler then the original white in my opinion, so i would still go for the mini, with it's funky colours, and 4gb is more then enough for me i currently have a 128mb flash player and don't mind chopping and changing on that, imagine 4gb!!!

[Stoo]

4 gig is plenty IMHO, my entire collection is only just over 4 gig and that's a total of about 840 files, which really is plenty for any journey no matter how long, lets face it, at about 50 hours you'd run out of power before you ran out of musical choice.