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"Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle...."

Head on over to apple.com (fairly slow at the moment) to see the new Mac and iPod combo. 2005 sees Apple retailing it's products with no screen. Yep, both the iPod shuffle and Mac Mini come with no screen (and in the Mac Mini's case, no keyboard and mouse also). Of course, you'll need to buy a screen, mouse and keyboard, but a £399 Mac? Yes please.

iPod shuffle is... different, it's really REALLY small, and comes in two sizes (both less than £100), the larger being 1GB (240 songs). It looks cool, and will allow many more people to hop on the iPod bandwagon.

"Think Different" definitely plays a key role here, then.

monkey_man wrote:
> Now look at the specs. Add a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and you
> can get a more powerful PC, which are more flexible. Sure it looks
> nice, but are you going to have it in the middle of your floor? Are
> you going to have neighbours round to see it? If I ever went to
> anyone's house just to look at their new iSomething, I'd burn the
> house and the occupants. And their Robosapien, because they've
> probably got one.

Yes, I fully understand that you can get a perfectly apt PC, but the thing with the Mac/Apple machines is (not trying to sound like some zealot) is the fact that they come with a little something called Mac OSX, meaning you are pretty much free from

1) Viruses
2) Spyware
3) Windows
4) "Do you want to send error report to Microsoft"
5) "Windows has reported an Error, I won't tell you what it is however because we at Microsoft think you are a tard"

etc...

You get the idea.

Some people loathe the mac, I personally wouldn't mind one.

You can go through the songs in order, since "shuffle" is only a magic new apple-only feature that's NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, but it means you're going to have to listen to the start of each one to hear what it is.

mermoid wrote:
> phi11ip wrote:
> This is going to be an even bigger waste of money than an iPod mini!
> No screen!?!
>
> But it has a 'revolutionary' shuffle feature that plays songs in a
> random order!
> AMAZING!!!!!
>
> I already ordered 20!

Oh my God.

Apple are really taking the p*ss now. The ONLY reason that people will buy those things is because of the name. It's pointless, there's no benefit to them at all!

You can get better ones, WITH SCREENS AND THE ABILITY TO SELECT SONGS for less!

The most tragic thing is the hard drive - 40GB? That's pathetic. They push Apples for music and video editing, yet they can store hardly any.

Doesn't matter though, they're "cool" to own... *sigh*

gamesfreak wrote:
> Woah, that Apple Mini looks amazing!
>
> I want one.
>
> Now.

Now look at the specs. Add a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and you can get a more powerful PC, which are more flexible. Sure it looks nice, but are you going to have it in the middle of your floor? Are you going to have neighbours round to see it? If I ever went to anyone's house just to look at their new iSomething, I'd burn the house and the occupants. And their Robosapien, because they've probably got one.

phi11ip wrote:
> This is going to be an even bigger waste of money than an iPod mini!
> No screen!?!

But it has a 'revolutionary' shuffle feature that plays songs in a random order!
AMAZING!!!!!

I already ordered 20!

Woah, that Apple Mini looks amazing!

I want one.

Now.

(the iPod shuffle? What kind of crap idea is that? I'd rather go for a normal iPod and choose the tracks I wish to play)

That or a Shuttle SN95G5.

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Soup that up and you've got a machine capable of running useful software.

ßulle†† wrote:
> As for the iPod shuffle - I'm assuming the battery life will be much
> better this time, what with no screen and all?

This is going to be an even bigger waste of money than an iPod mini! No screen!?!

There's loads of flash based MP3 players on the market already, I can't see this being as good as half of them. They're just using their name to cash in on it.